The UK: run by two posh boys who don't know the price of milk? The gap between Britain and Ireland is now truly remarkable.
NYC has a problem with 2 million rats
Our new podcast takes a look at the remarkable ‘Budget’ (Autumn Statement) introduced this week by the latest Chancellor of the Exchequer. In some ways it was just the previous budget with all the measures either cancelled or just with the sign reversed.
The hole in the middle of the UK’s economic strategy is that there isn’t a strategy. They’ve had the frighteners put on them by the bond market in the wake of Trussonomics and they can’t think beyond Christmas. They will be grateful to get there. Most importantly, there is no growth strategy. The UK risks becoming an ex-growth economy.
The NYC mayor has been nicknamed ‘The Verminator’ because of his aim of ridding the city of its rat problem. He was heading in the right direction until he called in the management consultants. No Pied Pipers there.
Qatar: will you be watching?
I left the U.K. 30 years ago, to come and reside in Thailand with my wife and her family. Financially, we do not live a rich life, but we live a happy life. My main reason for moving to Thailand was the cost of living in England was becoming to expensive. People criticized Margaret Thatcher and forced her out of office, but since she was Prime Minister there hasn't been a successful P.M. In my opinion the country has gone steadily downhill and will not see any sign of recovering for at least another decade, if it can recover at all, but with Rishi & Company, who happens to be a multi-millionaire, as is Boris Johnson. I have a question for any readers including Jim Power & Chris Johns:- How can a person, who doesn't know the meaning of hunger, or to be cold because their parents can't afford to heat the house they live in, possibly understand what the working class have to endure.
Great pod, as usual, and looking forward to Chris Grey - his somewhat despairing and despondent Brexit newsletter is essential reading.