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It's a real shame that this bloke isn't front and centre of the BBC economics news because he gets it

In fairness it was a case of "I'm alright Jack" from Pete. Sums up the modern labour party.

Don't trust the idea that spending is dependent on taxes, that's a good start 👍🏻

The government isn't a household, it doesn't owe debt to commercial banks like a household does. Most of its debt is held by its wholly...

Transitional relief concedes that the increases are unaffordable to business so just delays the inevitable. It's not something that is a...

The second one is the one I was on about, I think this kind of tax increase is incredibly cynical as it isn't widely understood how it...

Which public sector workers get above inflation increases? Never ever happened in my working life. (I don't work in the public sector...

Despite the headline of business rate reductions for some businesses, a lot of pubs have had their RV increased significantly so will be...

A thread on Patrick Bamford has turned into a cross between the Clothes Show and the Epstein Files. Only on Sky Blues Talk.

The benefits system pays a personal independence payment (formerly known as disability living allowance), it is what it is supposed to...

The only welfare reform that would make any significant savings would be pensions, and quite rightly that isn't happening as UK state...

There is room to keep both keepers really, especially if we are promoted

What's the economic benefit of pulling the plug on that scheme? From where I am looking it saves no real money and is purely to placate...

I'm in two minds about the NMW, I wonder whether a better approach would be to require that businesses employing somebody on NMW is...

I see posts about it on LinkedIn fairly often, including some going on about how the UK has become a police state, so they're moving to...