By johnredwood on October 17, 2024 We were told the new Chancellor had discovered a £22 bn black hole in the inherited budget. The Treasury officials who had prepared and signed off budget 24-25
When I listen to the PM and Chancellor I want to remind them they are trying to steer or improve a £2600 million economy. All we hear from them as they seek to find an alleged £22 bn is items
Confidence is always vulnerable to bad government By johnredwood on September 24, 2024 Why didn’t the PM and Chancellor see that telling us Things will get worse was bound to put people off
Energy is doing huge damage to this government By johnredwood on September 15, 2024 It is difficult to comprehend the stupidity of this government. Dear energy and inflation helped bring down the
The Bank of England gets it wrong again By johnredwood on August 2, 2024 On its own logic, model and data the Bank should have kept rates at 5.25%. The CPi they say is about to go up again from a
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Why the Conservatives lost By johnredwood on July 5, 2024 There were many reasons given by people who had voted Conservative in 2019 as to why they switched their votes or
Here’s the main aim of the Labour Manifesto. I fully support it. So did Liz Truss.It just shows how varied and wide an appeal it has. Growth needs to be per capita growth. It needs to be