WhisperingOracle

Morning all. A key problem witb that, is that the last government that ran under the banner of fiscal responsibility, via austerity, ended up doing the country more harm than good, across a range of … (View Post)

According to the IFS, the UK tax take is still "considerably lower than the western European average" at 33.5%, rather than 39.9%. (View Post)

A key question is how to raise taxes on the wealthy, but in other ways keep the country attractive enough for many wealthy people to stay. Many other European countries have managed this, since the p… (View Post)

Under continual attack from a press funded by large vested financial interests, I think you're right that the government are too scared to take on some of these fundamental, hugely structurally signi… (View Post)

I think that jusr would result in much of Britain resembling the worst parts of the urban U.S., not the Singaporean paradise some are imagining. (View Post)