A “debt clock tour”? What a waste
The TaxPayers’ Alliance is launching a 1,300 mile tour around the UK with a clock that counts the increase in government debt by the second attached to a lorry.
Varun Chandra
Tory NI plans treat us all like fools
Conservatives claim to be completely focused on reducing the budget deficit while at the same time promising another tax cut. Their economic policy is incoherent.
How to really protect the recovery
The economy will take centre stage in the election. The debate on which party is best placed to ensure the UK doesn’t slip back into recession is underway.
Budget winners? Small business & the role of the State
What Darling makes clear is that Labour believe the government has a role to play in restarting and supporting the economy; the Tories disagree – vote on that.
The problem with ‘People’s Bonuses’
Analysis of George Osborne’s proposals that the Tories will offer ‘small’ investors the chance to buy shares in the bailed out banks at ‘discounted’ prices.
George Osborne is wrong. Even the bankers agree
Left Foot Forward has the backing of senior bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos on eye-watering pay deals in the City, and that George Osborne is wrong
Cadbury and Kraft – public policy should focus on debt, not nationality
After months of wrangling between Kraft and Cadbury’s, it looks almost certain now that another iconic British brand will fall into the hands of foreign buyers.
Cameron cannot brush aside the tax-status scandal
Anyone seeking power should play by the same rules as the public. David Cameron’s belated response to the tax affairs of Goldsmith and Ashcroft is revealing.
Vince Cable’s banking tax doesn’t help anyone
Vince Cable wants banks to pay 10% on their profits to raise £2bn. But this new tax is the wrong option and won’t work.
Brown and King miss the point on bank break up
Mervyn King and Gordon Brown are both wrong over the future of the banks. Both have failed to point out that the banking system was brought to its knees by the interdependency of institutions. They need to be split up because the supernormal profits are emblematic of monopoly power.