John Redwood's Diary
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
Interest rates johnredwood June 7 The Bank of England is independent when it comes to forecasting inflation and the economy. It has the sole right to fix the Base rate, the crucial short term
How to have lower taxes and faster growth johnredwood May 26 I have been critical of the government for putting up with unacceptable losses by the Bank of England, the railways, the Post Office, HS 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCOCOXMQkV4enter link description here High debt, low growth, banks keeping interest rates high as inflation falls. Crash worse than 2008 looks imminent. On the
Why do no other MPs want to stop the Bank of England mistakes? johnredwood April 14 The political classes seem incapable of understanding why we have so many boom bust inflationary cycles. I want
Nationalisation is a bad idea johnredwood March 30 There are several strong arguments against the nationalised model for providing commercial services like phones,water,electricity and gas as we used
johnredwood March 25 I will spare you a party political response to the Reeves Mais lecture. Various journalists have described its vacuity, verbosity and timidity. I want to set out the big issues
The published rates of inflation are the problem.
There was no inflation to talk of before 1914 when a shilling was a day’s pay and a £ a month’s pay as they had been since time immemorial,
A modern growing railway johnredwood February 10 Greens like trains. They seem to think they are free or low on CO 2 though all the time there diesel trains and electric trains running on power from
johnredwood February 4 With Labour wanting to complete the nationalisation of the railways and the Conservatives hesitating to privatise, it is time to revisit the general case against public