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Your assumption is faulty because it assumes that if inflation goes up, the entire operating costs must go up in line that. Which ignores things like long term contracts and so. Ironically, this is actually an argument for a monetarist fiscal policy which prioritises inflation as the most...

It’s possible, but requires teams below us beating or drawing against Sunderland so unless we’re winning every game, we may want Sunderland to do us a favour here and there.

This is all well meaning stuff… how is it being funded? Again, if 45bn in unfunded tax cuts can bring down a government, it really limits a government’s ability to spend without making cuts elsewhere.

I’m sure Spain felt that before going into last summer’s Euros.

He talks a good game!

I genuinely think this next election could be the collapse of the Tory party. If Labour loses power, they could be on the path to extinction themselves because many Labour voters probably see them as a Tory-lite government. Just as many people backing Reform this last election viewed the Tory...

‘Real term cuts’ is a blatant manipulation of statistics. If my employer gives me 5% pay rise and inflation is at 7% (for arguments sake), I’ve not received a 2% pay cut. That’s how ‘real terms’ cuts are marketed as. For example, the NHS budget is projected to go up by £21bn in cash in 25/26...

Is it? When George Osborne cut corporation tax back in the coalition government days, tax receipts went up by a third.

What is regarded as a ‘sensible discussion’ varies massively from who talk to. Is leaving the ECHR and amending the HRA considered sensible? What level of net migration is sensible? The pre-1997 norm of 50k? 900k like it was last year? There’s plenty of good left wing arguments to end mass...

Bear in mind I’m replying to you and making general observations about people of the left generally (including close friends of mine). We’re addicted to cheap labour in this country. A government has to turn around and be willing to take on the costs of ending mass migration and be open with...

Norway had to introduce exit taxes to get around its wealthy people leaving. Wealth taxes that people like Gary Stevenson espouse just don’t work.

I’m trying to be empathetic to the underfunded argument. If your population grows by 12m in 26-or-so years as it is projected to do so between 2010-2036, do you think that could have an impact on a state’s capacity to actually provide essential public services? Sweden has the most...

In that case, I apologise. Why did you choose Scandinavia as your example? Are you willing to hold positions that some would consider ‘far right’ on immigration in order to ‘save’ the welfare state?

It’s not limited to the political left as a whole. There’s elements of the neoliberal right who champion mass immigration for cheap labour and ‘economic growth’. I mentioned ‘the left’ specifically is because they tend to be much more comfortable shouting public services are systematically...

In your view, what are these limitations? To say it has nothing to do with tax collection is either dishonest or splitting hairs. The Consolidation Fund has a balance sheet to maintain, so whilst it creates money ‘out of thin air’, there still has to be credits into the system to maintain a...

One thing about the Scandinavian countries is that they have comparatively more draconian immigration policies than we do. We wouldn’t describe Scandinavia as multicultural either. Sweden has ‘remigration’ policies and Denmark has anti-ghetto laws that have been described as ‘far right’ on this...

Why did you share it then? It just seems like you’re avoiding the question that I posed to you in the first place: is there any limitations to government spending? The impression I’m getting from you, is that your answer is no and there isn’t any limits and any external factors are essentially...

The paper you shared, what do you think that means in practice… Do you take it to mean that in practice, a sovereign currency issuer can spend whatever it likes with no repercussions? How far does this actually go?

For what point specifically? You don’t really have a right to call anyone an air head when your solution to any and every issue is more government and more funding. I made an observation on positions that people like yourself who just don’t see a limit to government spending. Be it welfare, the...

To be fair, he harshly treated at Chelsea first time around, they were top at Xmas and after they wobbled they dumped him for Tuchel. He was used by Chelsea. With Everton, it’s a tough one because even Dyche struggled after a while and it’s taken a club legend in David Moyes to get Everton...