By Brian Monteith – 4 minutes read WE REALLY DO live in a world that has turned logic upside down and are living through the other side of the looking glass (the proper British term for a mirror- Ed). We have just had the financial markets pressurising the UK Government to put up taxes – [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE LAST two weeks, since Kwasi Kwarteng’s now infamous budget, have perhaps been the most extraordinary in modern British political recollection. Truss and Kwarteng condemned, with almost religious like certainty, from a whole host of commentators from the IMF to Germany’s finance minister, from the usual suspects like the [...]
By Catherine McBride – 8 minute read THE CHANCELLOR’S mini-budget was both encouraging and disappointing. First, the good news. The Chancellor announced most of the things that Liz Truss had promised to do during her election campaign. This is a welcome surprise, for many years now despite having voted for Conservative Governments - smaller government [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read MAKE NO MISTAKE, we face an economic crisis. The view that is being curated is that all was relatively fine until those right-wing barbarians, Truss and Kwarteng, ruined the party with their childish economics focusing tax cuts on the rich undermining stable public finances. How dare they! They [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read (If you missed Part One before Friday's mini-budget, go here first.) ONE OF THE BEST THINGS about the Chancellor’s speech is that it did most of the things Liz Truss had promised to do during her election campaign. It seems incredible to say this but for many years now, [...]
