Monthly Archives: April 2010

By this stage in a normal recovery there would be rapid growth. The hesitant and much spun recovery so far is symptomatic of serious problems remaining with monetary and banking policy. Whilst the media and political parties talk about the odd few billions, I have been trying to draw the debate onto the big numbers [...]

In my world good quality public sector health and education services are a good thing. In Labour’s world high levels of public spending on health and education are a good thing. The two things can be different. Labour have always peddled two myths – that spending more on the public sector is always a good [...]

Today I wanted to check out Lib Dem policy for the election. Their site contained what looks like a helpful “Pocket Guide” to Lib Dem policy. It advertises a handy page a department to get the gist of their plans. The only problem is, I was unable to download it. It refused to open – [...]

It was good over the last couple of days to be back on the doorsteps. There is more commonsense. More interesting issues emerge than in the musings and rantings of the “air war” on the media. So what are people talking about? A large number raise the issue of immigration. They do so in a [...]

All the time we continue to run a large balance of payments deficit, because our economy is so unbalanced and the private sector so squeezed, we have to continue selling the family silver. More companies will be sold abroad, to raise the money to pay for the imports. Promoted by Christine Hill on behalf of [...]