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21 05, 2025

Labour’s ‘Borrowing for investment’ is the Net Zero transition in disguise – and could cost the UK nearly £7 trillion

Trade & Economy|

By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read LABOUR’S ‘borrowing for investment’ will part-finance the Net Zero transition in a repeat of New Labour’s Private Finance Initiative and the EU’s InvestEU, and cost the UK nearly £7 trillion. The Labour Government’s Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budgets are a dangerous fiction in that they exclude these financing costs. [...]

21 05, 2025

‘Borrowing for investment’ – How Labour will go big by aping the EU’s InvestEU and creating more PFI 

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By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read LABOUR’S new ‘iron’ fiscal rules will open the floodgates to ‘borrowing for investment’, under the Government’s new measure of the national debt, called ‘Public sector net liabilities’. That is the message of my paper ‘ ‘Borrowing for investment’ – what is meant by this statement in theoretical terms’ published [...]

21 05, 2025

The Government’s ‘day-to-day’ costs are out-of-control

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By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read Why there is no chance of spending being covered by revenue by 2029 in compliance with Labour’s ‘iron’ fiscal rule LABOUR HAS lost control of the public finances. Day-to-day costs have been increasing. There was a ‘black hole’ but not the one claimed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Labour [...]

21 05, 2025

Starmer and Reeves want to hide their increase in the national debt

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By Bob Lyddon – 4 minute read THE UK’S DEBT is already nearly the same size as the whole UK economy and is continuing to increase. The Labour Government’s plan to introduce a new measure of it, so as to understate it, is already so far from reality it cannot fool the public, investors, and public [...]

5 05, 2025

How globally unaccountable activist NGOs ruined the trust given towards charities

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read ARE PEOPLE finally wakening up to the great harm that NGOs do to our personal freedoms, economic prosperity, cultural values and safety from foreign powers or terrorists? That might seem like a long list of threats to our way of life – because it is – yet it [...]

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