By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read LAST WEEK’S budget has failed. It was timid, did not tackle the critical question of out of control public spending. Further, the tax cuts were derisory, the total tax take as a proportion of the economy will likely continue to rise.
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE REALITY IS, unless forced by market imperative, the UK is locked into a tax and spend culture. If 14 years of Conservative rule have embedded this culture what chance then of a change for the better under Labour?
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read Le Figaro’s article actually reveals the fact that while the UK Government and its refusenik bureaucracy may well have monumentally failed this country the reason is that despite Brexit they have made the UK more like the EU, not less. They have copied EU failure.
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE VEIL has been lifted. The former Chancellor Philip Hammond has admitted what we all knew. Party politics and gaining perceived short term political advantage is far more important than running the country even half sensibly.
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read I AM NOT a regular reader of the New Statesman but was drawn to a recent article claiming the tax system embeds wealth – ignoring the evidence the UK is not the unequal nation so many claim, here's how...
