Maybe if reducing the cash ISA limit, they should stick up the Premium Bonds cap a little. I don’t think it’s implausible that a lot of people holding the maximum would top it up, and it would give t… (View Post)

It very much has an air of “just bung a bit more cash into the minimum wage and the NHS and welfare, and business will just about take it” to the whole piece. Labour reverting to type. (View Post)

They have, for the first time since they were elected (where mostly I’ve just despaired/been severely disappointed/irked) made me feel genuinely angry today. (View Post)

“Dear Santa, For Christmas this year I would like some unexpected economic growth. I’ve been good and been nice to Keir all year, even when he’s bored me to tears. Yours, Rachel.” (View Post)

All I can say, is that I am hopeful this is one of those things that is floated and then gets quietly abandoned as too controversial/difficult. It does periodically get mooted from time to time, but … (View Post)