Funding the Future

The definition of working people is Labour black hole

Labour keeps talking about working people and says everyone knows what they mean when they use the term. Except, most people don’t, and the term makes no political sense in the way that they use it. It’s another fine mess they’ve got themselves into, and it’s all their own fault.

Trump scares me rigid

Trump is a fascist. Of course that scares me. But it scares me even more because I don’t think that Labour will do anything to stop the threat of fascism growing in the UK.

Trump scares me rigid

Trump is a fascist. Of course that scares me. But it scares me even more because I don’t think that Labour will do anything to stop the threat of fascism growing in the UK.

Rachel Reeves’ massive blow to the NHS

If, as expected, Rachel Reeves increases employers’ national insurance next week, and she doesn’t compensate the NHS, education, local authorities and other departments for the cost, then the impact on public services is going to be very big – and in some cases bigger than any budget settlement they might get.

Middlemen are killing the UK’s economy

The UK economy is now a mess built on the foundations of everyone sub-contracting everything they can whenever they think that possible. The result is that we have an economy made up of middlemen, all of them raking off their own bit of profit.

Shouldn’t ministers know what they’re talking about?

Labour ministers have been talking about ‘black holes’ in the government’s finances ever since they got into office, but technically such a thing is an impossibility. Isn’t the most basic thing we should expect of them is that they be competent? So, why aren’t they?

Will Rachel Reeves' NI hike crush UK economic growth?

Rachel Reeves wants growth, and it’s thought she’s going to seriously increase employers’ national insurance contributions, which is most likely to stop that happening. Why is she adopting such an absurd approach to the economy?

Keir Starmer's Big Mistake: Confusing Money with Capital?

Keir Starmer is desperate for foreign money to fund British investment,but that makes no sense at all.

Big and small businesses are nothing like each other

To pretend that there is almost any similarity between how small and big businesses is absurd. Small businesses have to serve us, or they fail. Big business tries to entrap us in debt to ensure that they keep growing ever bigger. We need to rethink what we think about the private sector – and what parts of it we want to promote.

There’s no electricity or water for Starmer’s planned investments

Starmer wants high-tech investment in the UK that will demand massive new electricity supply and water supplies we simply have not got, and all for not many new jobs. Why doesn’t he grow UK small business instead?