In the short term, we do need to pay more in tax. This is why this budget is so short-sighted and unhelpful. It doesn’t fix the problems, it tinkers round the edges, it doesn’t couple tax increases w… (View Post)

Feels to me like Reform are losing some stream. Labour and Tories are getting very close to parity. Not implausible we could see a crossover in the new year… (View Post)

As always, two things can be true at once. Is some criticism of Reeves misogynistic? Yes, because misogyny exists and I don’t think it’s particularly controversial to say that woman are often held to… (View Post)

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)