Three ways to save big money for the government By johnredwood on September 11, 2025 The first is well known to readers here. Cut the bond losses. More about that tomorrow.That will help get the

By johnredwood on April 9, 2025 During the last two Parliaments I pressed the Treasury to make it more difficult for Councils to borrow large sums of money. As so often it took time to persuade

mind what spending you cut By johnredwood on April 3, 2025 I read that the triple lock is not affordable, and see people supporting the idea of cutting Personal Independence payments. Of all the

It’s wasteful spending that needs to go johnredwood April 19 The IMF like the left wing parties says there must be no unfunded tax cuts. Like them it does not complain about unaffordable wasteful

We start with my old friend the heavily loss making Bank of England. They have lurched from creating inflation by printing too much money and keeping rates too low, to causing a shallow recession by

UK Government Investments Ltd piles high the losses johnredwood February 20 UK Government Investments Ltd is another of these 100% government owned arms length bodies. It is meant to supervise and