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It wasn’t the higher rate taxpayer thing. That was just the politically crass thing, it’s not going to have had any effect on the markets. As our deputy host says - it was the lack of/suppressing of … (View Post)

The thing about annexation is that it’s actually an extremely high risk move, especially (as suggested) if the Russian public don’t buy it. The only purpose for it would be to create an excuse for us… (View Post)

Absolutely astonishing that the Conservative Party with a majority of 80 concluded that their Johnson related collapse in support from the public was policy related rather than primarly a problem foc… (View Post)

To be fair wasn’t the big problem above all else in 1992 the political commitment to stay in the ERM? The amount of money chucked away trying to hold the £ only to end up devaluing anyway. The countr… (View Post)

The budget was bad enough, but the total absence of the publication of independent forecasts to go with it is what has made it ten times worse. In their absence the markets are just drawing their own… (View Post)