When the government is insisting that the lights won’t go out, there will be enough food, and not to panic as there is quite enough petrol to go round, you have to why we are having such a conversation. We are not victims of chance. We’re heading into the winter of a ‘perfect storm’: unaffordable… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
The inveterate lier that is now our Prime Minister..
…just cannot help himself. As the lawyer Peter Stefanovic, points out: Biden has I think, like Macron, got the measure of the UK government…… Read more
All the power but no energy
One of the advantages of Brexit was, according to Johnson, that we could abolish VAT on energy bills. Of course we’ve never seen any mention of it since, and now amid spiralling gas prices and allegedly failing wind speeds, and of course a fire in Kent affecting supply of nuclear powered electricity in France –… Read more
Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’..
…Would appear to be code not just for a simple lack of diplomacy but for wonderful and world-beating, world-wide incompetence. They are caught without any preparation for the withdrawal from Afghanistan – even though the foreign office had already reported in January that preparations should be made. The Foreign Secretary of the time had not… Read more
Brexit has not been done
Given that this Independent report suggests that food distribution shortages will, according to Downing Street, be over by Christmas (is that before or after?) supposedly there is little to worry about with our current intermittent and unpredictable shortages. Mind you at least in saying the problems will be over by Christmas Downing Street admits that… Read more
True Red Bus message….
Being of the view that Brexit is a useless disaster, I did appreciate this ‘redesigned’ red bus:… Read more
Social Care – or not
The announced ‘solution’ to the care crisis really couldn’t be any worse. National Insurance (NI) with its start at a rate lower than income tax and a rate on the highest income of nil is demonstrably regressive. The fact that companies and employers will have to pay this NI as well and just after a… Read more
UK exports suffer huge slump since Brexit vote
This is the title of the piece in the ‘Daily Business’ – and it is no exaggeration. It continues: The Commons data shows the UK saw a decline in exports of -5.5% over five years, putting it behind 13 neighbouring countries: Ireland (+48.1%), Finland (+18.8%), Sweden (+15.5%), the Netherlands (+15%), Denmark (+14%), Luxembourg (+13.6%), Austria… Read more
Unless building back better is a metaphor…
It doesn’t look to have much prospect of coming about. The Independent reports: Builders are being forced to down tools amid a “perfect storm for construction” which is putting the UK’s economic recovery in doubt, industry groups have warned. The cost of building materials has soared by 20 per cent, exacerbating the problems facing an… Read more
This is visceral
There is fellow feeling in this commentary on the last week in the UK … Although – Warning! best avoided if you object to frequent swearing. Personally I seem to have reached the stage where it is probably a necessity, so this is a strangely satisfying watch…… Read more