Communism
3p per mile
It has been pointed out a few times that the November 2025 budget has many changes to taxes and rates but many don’t come in to effect until after the May elections. Are Labour running [more…]
Tax
Economics
Rachel Reeves. Avoid
“I wasn’t born into this,” wailed Rachel Reeves, as she alternated between blaming misogyny and everyone else for the expectation-management debacle leading up to last Wednesday’s budget. Reeves even held an unprecedented press conference, pointing [more…]
Economics
UK Autumn Budget 2025 Summary
Tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend. © Swiss Bob 2025
America
Putting Trump’s Proposed Two Thousand Dollar Rebate in Perspective
President Trump has proposed giving “each American” a check for two thousand dollars ($2,000). Well, not “each” American. Top earners will not be included, so instead of each of the three hundred and thirty three [more…]
Economics
Which taxes will go up
The good news is that the brothers and sisters in Labour are going to mount an effort to dislodge Keith. The bad news is that it ain’t gonna work. At least it will give us [more…]
Communism
Command Economies
After a once in a lifetime budget that was designed to promote growth, fill a fictitious £22 billion black hole and encourage new jobs, what are we left with, little to no growth, a £50 [more…]
Economics
Great Expectations (of Free Money)
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ So begins Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities with a line that might apply as much to the modern-day state of British welfare [more…]
Communism
Tax, Tax, Tax
I was born in 1949, now in 2025 Great Britain has the highest tax burden in my lifetime & I would argue the most degraded public services. Post war the UK has suffered from unrelenting [more…]
Economics
Lefty Logic
If someone approached you and took a wild swing at you, you would try to avoid it. Some of you might even fight back but the sensible option is that you would at least take [more…]