Council tax and its adult social care precept look likely. Aside from the genuine advantage of shifting more of the tax burden onto property it would have the political advantage of shifting much of … (View Post)

Why not watch YouTube ? YouTube and wikipedia are great examples of how things can have a great effect on quality of life while not affecting GDP much. (View Post)

Well we were repeatedly told here that it would be impossible to roll over those EU trade deals and that the UK would get far worse ones. No, Truss did a genuinely competent job at international trad… (View Post)

Plus this: In the past six years, the European Union, weary of the financial and political costs of receiving migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, has created a shadow immigration system that stops them… (View Post)

An odd thing is that Truss did a good job as Trade Secretary by doing some proper preparation and paying attention to the details. But then did neither in the rush to offer tax cuts all round. (View Post)