We need an interim prime minister, and only Jeremy Hunt fits the bill
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020I wrote a tweet last night in which I said: Let’s be serious tonight. There is no one who does not wish Boris Johnson well
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Debt is a weapon of control
Friday, April 3rd, 2020Peter May got to this issue quicker than I did yesterday. Peter writes regularly on the a Progressive Pulse blog that I publish. He said
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The government has utterly screwed up its support for British business - to add to its list of coronavirus failures
Friday, April 3rd, 2020What seems like a lifetime ago, but was in fact little more than two weeks back, the Chancellor announced a £330bn bailout plan for British
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£55 billion of NHS PFI debt has not been written off: with so much else that now needs to be reformed if the NHS is to serve us into the future
Friday, April 3rd, 2020The government supposedly wrote off £13.4 billion of NHS debt yesterday. It didn’t: as I have already pointed out, all it did was make a
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Writing off NHS debt of £13.4 billion is a charade. What is required instead is the renationalisation of the NHS: nothing less will do
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020As the Guardian has noted this afternoon: To help NHS trusts deliver what’s needed, Hancock has written off £13.4bn of historic NHS debt. He said
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The government has now announced there will be bank loan and credit card repayment holidays - which I asked for on budget day, three weeks ago
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020Three weeks late the Guardian has noted that the government has today said: The financial regulator has announced plans to freeze loan and credit card
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I hope the Daily Mail remembers this headline
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020The Daily Mail has this headline today: The related article says: But has the Government done everything possible to crack Covid-19? The Mail reluctantly concludes
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Changes to insolvency rules will not save businesses - they'll simply save a few directors whilst leaving the economy as a whole to sink
Monday, March 30th, 2020The government announced changes to regulations on insolvency laws this morning using emergency powers that have been provided to them. They said: Under the plans,
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If lockdown lasts six months the lost human capital will take a very long time to recover
Monday, March 30th, 2020I am far from alone in being worried right now. I know that. Quite reasonably people are fearful at many levels. And so am I.
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