So how do you differentiate between the effects of Covid, Ukraine, Brexit or a myriad of other factors ? And how, if you can do so, has Brexit been a 'total turd' ? Now one thing we can do … (View Post)

You seem to be under the self-deception that Brexit is the only thing that has happened in the past five years. Or that some longer term processes - for example the effect of the internet on town cen… (View Post)

Its a strange one. Perhaps Reeves feared that Labour MPs wouldn't have accepted increasing fiscal headroom as a good enough reason for spending restraint and tax increases. (View Post)

Great sob story here: https://www.thetimes.com/money/tax/article/mansion-tax-budget-westminister-3sprzqr89 Lives alone in six bedroom Kensington home, bought for £4k in 1970 and now worth £4m. Lots o… (View Post)

At a meeting in No 10 in September of this year, one source heard a special adviser ask: “What are gilt yields?” A government whose opponents were destroyed by the bond markets, and which is paying t… (View Post)