We face a Labour meltdown after the election
Friday, April 12th, 2024I seriously wonder how long Labour has got before it has no choice but to wake up and smell the coffee. It would be incredibly
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The national debt is not as big as the government claims
Thursday, April 11th, 2024I just posted this short video on the national debt on TikTok. I think we’ve upped our production values in this one. Comments would be
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Labour's going to have very big problems with the Bank of England
Thursday, April 11th, 2024Megan Greene, who is an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and, as such, one of the people responsible for setting
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The Guardian agrees: Labour's tax problems can’t be solved by a cosy coterie of old insiders
Thursday, April 11th, 2024This comment was posted on the blog overnight by long term occasional commentator Jonathan: Interestingly, now the Guardian have discovered your Taxing Wealth Report it
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Videos: There is no such thing as a fiscal rule, and the cost of nationalising water
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024I posted this on TikTok this morning. The video discusses Rachel Reeves’ claim that she is bound by fiscal rules that she has made up.
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Labour is outsourcing policy to The City establishment
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024An old friend, Ian Fraser, who wrote a great book on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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The Taxing Wealth Report and tax justice
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Right at the very heart of the Taxing Wealth Report is the
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We need the tax system to work, which means Rachel Reeves will have to do a lot more than she's planning
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024The Guardian has reported that: Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax avoidance following its plan to reap
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