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If it stays fit for the series then we’ve got a great chance

Stokes is just the man isn’t he. Amazing stuff

Raises about €2bn. I’m all for taxing people a bit more if it helps the country but none of the wealth taxes implemented have raised anything significant and even if we did get a chunk more in, people need to realise it won’t solve our current predicament Said it a million times, if the...

But if tax revenue is less, everyone else would have to pay more in tax or there would be cuts to public services*. I think those polled probably missed that next logical step. I’d imagine most people (apart from maybe some on ideological left) don’t really give a toss what someone else earns...

Im all for doing whatever might help improve the country but its shit like this that annoys me https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/06/24/d9b57/2 A majority of people wanting a wealth tax even if it brings in net less revenue ?! Madness. But that’s the country at the...

Unbelievable goals to win such an important game. Fair play to the Scot’s after it was 2-2 got back on the front foot and deserved the winner(s)

A wealth tax might generate a few billion but unless the government sorts its spending out it’s irrelevant. The markets are still charging a premium and unlikely to change this unless they see some control. Said before since welfare reform and WFP were unwound I bet its probably cost us another...

The 1 stands out a little !!!

Such a way with words…..

Problem is due to these planning related delays, not only does the planning process end up costing a load more than expected but you end up having to pay a lot more for the project (as you say due to inflation etc). Happening in private sector as well as public and is one of the major issues we...

Ps how do you properly build any significant new energy infrastructure etc in a country where we can’t even build transport infrastructure in a timely, cost efficient manner. Everything just gets bogged down in nonsense see HS2 as well as stuff like this…...

successive governments just didn’t react quickly enough. Standard short termism ‘it takes too long’ approach there was also this weird anti nuclear push back and even now this strange approach of wanting to minimise fossil fuel production here whilst happily importing LNG etc from abroad 🤷‍♂️

We still are but it’s more specialist. As soon as globalisation happened (in conjunction with poor energy policy as you’ve mentioned) we were screwed. We can’t compete with mass production countries and look at Germany now they can’t rely on cheap Russian energy. Edit - we all seem to have...

Eubank seemed to mate the weight better this times but is another few months older. He should win but wonder if Benns desire not to be beaten again might see him sneak it, especially after eubank announced he’s got twins on the way

Not sure about VAT as guessing that would be costly but agree with the other stuff. There’s been nothing to encourage growth in the private sector and the continued anti-wealth background noise is not going to encourage people to invest or set up here. Couple that with poor productivity in the...

Interesting overview from Peston

Agree with this and it’s been my major frustration with the government. They were elected on a growth manifesto and then immediately talked the economy down after the election when they should’ve ridden the post Tory positivity wave. They then exacerbated the problem with emp’er NIC rise (rather...

But this is usually the precursor to suggesting that we can just spend what we want. The challenge in response being but the bond markets will charge even more for borrowing, squeezing public funds further. The response is then we don’t need the bond markets and we can print/borrow from BoE...

Thatcherite spending philosophy?! What, trying to grow the economy? (Not sure that’s working so far) Come on FD. They’re already borrowing and taxing £70bn more per year over the parliament (let’s say £300-350bn). I’d imagine tax will increase further this budget. As the party hasnt shown any...

The ‘working right’ sound like old school traditional Labour voters to me