Which highlights the importance of Trump's charisma to the whole MAGA operation. Trump has been spouting similar charmless bollocks for over a decade. But he does it in a way that has got him to… (View Post)

As a proposal to run the nation, it is insane. As a populist meme to garner support from the grumpy, it's brilliant. As an excuse to cut immigration to negative numbers because we have nowhere t… (View Post)

The information is there- see the Janet and John summaries we get with our council tax and income tax statements each year. Do you read them? Neither do I. It's why conspiacist thinking- that�… (View Post)

One trouble is that Trump claims to want tariffs to do two tings at once. One is to be a government revenue stream, which means continuing imports. The other is to onshore manufacturing jobs (not hap… (View Post)

And then we come back to the shit that Sunak and Hunt left their successors to clean up, treating fiscal headroom like Brewster's Millions. (View Post)