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So you’d cut VAT by 5% and balance that with increased borrowing and massive public expenditure commitments. You’d have to raise taxes as the corporation tax increases would not cover for this. The market conditions at the minute makes borrowing money more expensive which pushes spending up even...

Would it not be spineless to let your shadow cabinet colleagues strike when you explicitly ban them from doing so? I’ve not got a problem with backbenchers playing activist politics, but the cabinet/shadow cabinet are supposed to be a credible government or government in waiting. A cabinet is...

Key word in this sentence is ‘projections’ and they are constantly readjusted. To be perfectly honest, the whole of Europe is on the cusp of recession. Russia cutting off gas (a likely outcome) would be enough to plunge most European economies, including Italy, Germany and most Eastern Bloc...

I don’t think he is. We’ll likely sign a goalkeeper if Moore goes.

The Eurozone as a whole grew a whole 0.1% more than the UK. Which includes higher growth rates in smaller economies with more scope to grow. Meanwhile, we’ve outperformed France, Germany...

Yeah, and the only half of the border check booths at Dover are manned by the French border police. Apparently we’ve shared our expected volumes with them and yet they’re operating at half capacity. Again, not to be blamed on Brexit. A more appropriate target would be the French frontier police.

I really haven’t cherry picked the data. We’ve outgrown the major EU economies since we left the EU and even outgrown those same economies since the referendum in 2016. To judge Brexit less than 2 years into it is a bit silly. Of course there’s going to be some short term disruption. Food...

The workforce has 1.2 million less people now than it did before COVID. Yes, Brexit would have had an impact, but certainly not 1.2m people. Brexit hasn’t caused record numbers of early retirement, for example. Are European observers truly ‘dispassionate?’ They also have a vested interest in...

To clarify, ‘Eurozone inflation’ is the average inflation in countries that have adopted the Euro. Inflation is between c.9 and c.11% in the Netherlands and Belgium respectively whilst Estonia’s inflation is an eye watering c.20%. If the issues are related to poor governance, that’s a totally...

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Eurozone inflation in June was 8.1% v UK inflation of 9.4%. That’s a 1.3% Few things to note: - UK growth from Q4 in 2019 to Q1 in 2022 is stronger in than Germany, France and Italy - UK exports to the EU are in a good place and have grown in 2022 to...

Circumstances change. Politicians from Starmer to Truss in Labour/Tories need to accept the verdicts from 2016 and 2019, irrespective of their previous held positions. Brexit is and was always going to cause disruption because you’re upending a 50 year status quo. I was a Remainer and in...

On the issue of Brexit, the debate isn’t Remain versus Leave anymore. We’ve left the EU and regardless of your opinion, we need to make the most of Brexit. It’s a good thing that someone like Truss acknowledges the debate has moved on. As for changing parties, free thinkers can change their...

England women would probably lose to England schoolboys. There’s been a few examples of elite women’s team getting beat by teenage boys. I don’t mean to be disparaging because the growth of the woman's game is good. There’s a reason the sexes don’t compete together and it’s not because of sexism.

Have you considered that Robins prioritised other targets? Twine is a good player, but the jump from League 2 to Championship is huge so that transfer would’ve represented a risk. I’m not sure we would’ve been in an immediate position to give him the game time he wanted. As for Rudoni, I think...

We need ‘pace and power’… Such a oring cliche that gets rolled out everyransfer window. We a technical game, that’s where our priority needs to be.

@shmmeee was having a meltdown every preseason game. In most of Moore’s detractors defence, he did look quite dodgy and that was our first impression of him. Another reason us all to not get too carried away in preseason. It’s about fitness, gelling the team and developing the style of play...

Permanent or loan signing?

The English tax doesn’t exist. The tax is on premier league clubs signing other premier league players. Economically, our Premiership teams do not need to sell tickets to break even. Whereas Ligue 1, La Liga and Serie A have teams that need to sell players to break even. That’s why Everton can...

Kalvin Phillips was really good in the 20/21 season for club and country. Last season was a write off in terms of being injured a lot and playing in a struggling team. People have forgot that. Man City have got good value out of this transfer and Guardiola will improve him as a player.

The reality is that inflation and increased interests rates will correct the market somewhat. Generally, the vetting procedures for mortgages are so secure compared to the past… the loans are so secure, that the risk of default is too low.