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Fucking lol. So you are suggesting that your gut feeling, informed with a dose of wishful thinking, is a more accurate way of gauging the mood of the nation than opinion polls, as flawed as they are.
I'll leave you to your delusions.
You must be looking at a very small proportion as, I bet if I looked, Starmer and Labour would be up in many of them.

I‘ll leave you to have a look, I’m to busy sunning my delusions.
 
An amazing 5p of a litre that has gone up 70p and that **** face Chancellor wants to take a bow. I would advise he stsrts chewing deadly nightshade.
 

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You've lost me there mate.
As I understood it he had 50bn more to play with than he thought he would a few weeks/ months ago.
So he's chosen to bank that rather than spend it in giving more help to the less well off.
Even Ed Conway on Sky said as much!

I don't disagree with that at all, but that £50bn (as I understand it) is the product of better than expected revenues. It isn't the product of anything he did on Wednesday.

What he did on Wednesday is announce that the 1% increase in NICs effective April 2022 that he has already announced will be matched by a 1% cut in ICT with effect from 2024. It's moving money from the left pocket to the right. He's still got that £50bn, but he would have had it anyway even if he'd done nothing on Wednesday at all. So yes he has banked that, plus he will also have the extra 1% for 2 years before the ICT cut kicks in

He hasn't really helped people out by raising the threshold at which you pay NICs either, because for most people that will be offset by the higher amount they pay as from April.

Oh, he did cut VAT on solar panels, which is a win for those thinking about paying the £6,000 necessary. I suppose that's not much comfort if you're choosing between heating and eating but every little helps, I suppose.
 
This is the wrong way to think about QE. QE artificially funds inflation which is why we aren't and shouldn't ever use QE to pay for things. At the moment we are using low interest borrowed money to pay for things which is far more sustainable. The furlough scheme and all government spending just for example is paid for via borrowed money, not by QE.

QE is required to keep the money supply going where new money is issued to banks (by buying securities from the banks) and the banks then lend to businesses and you and me which makes the bank money. Those banks will then use their profits to lend more and the merry-go-round goes on. It also hopefully means you can get a mortgage, or a loan for a car etc.

If you use QE to pay for things though then the value of our money goes down because we aren't getting richer from profit or selling things, we just have more money. With that inflation goes up because the drop in value means it costs more to pay people for imports, services, products etc.

In any event mentioning the Tories on monetary policy is pointless because monetary policy is run by the Bank of England which is completely separate from politics.

This is a bit limited in scope, with respect.

QE generally as a means of solving problems specific to your economy is a bad idea. People will see the risk of their money and assets being devalued and will make for the hill - ie the rest of the world.

During the covid crisis QE went into overdrive in the UK. Why did nobody head for the hills? Because everyone else was doing the same thing. You only head for safety when there's safety to head to. Your money was no safer in the states or in the EU.

So QE is absolutely the right tool to fix some economic problems, but not all. If it is used badly, in isolation, it can be disastrous. If it is used wrongly it can be disastrous.

But the fuel cost crisis is not a UK only problem. There is scope for multilateral action, if the other G7 nations in particular have the appetite for it. They may: we are not all in the same boat, but our boats are all in the same storm.

I don't know whether QE is a realistic option, because Im not privy to the private thoughts of the governments of the major economies of the world.

But it's a runner if everyone agrees to play the same game. Problem is, there is no evidence at all that the current government has any appetite for it.
 
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'ckin Ada, Telegraph reporting that Sunak's family has a £727M stake in Infosys, a company with Russian operation, and Sunak's wife received a £12M dividend from them.
That should help cushion the blow from rising prices!
Boris Paper reportinf that tells you all you need to know about who told them. Petty revenge for Rishi ignoring his request to changes in the autumn statement.
 
Raab to legalise the ranting of Anjem Chaudry and allow Shamima Begum back into the UK to make her case in a UK court then? They never think this red meat through do they?

 
Is there any form of parasite lower than a Tory MP? Can't wait for the next GE which will hopefully see many of them exit the House. I hope a lot of the working class and even middle class avoid voting tory this time round given current cost of living and incompetence.
 
Home Secretary getting chewed up in Court. Admitted to lying over HO illegal policy of seizing mobile phones from refugees/migrants.

"Her initial stance was that there was no policy of the kind which is now admitted," the judges said.

 
Boris Paper reportinf that tells you all you need to know about who told them. Petty revenge for Rishi ignoring his request to changes in the autumn statement.
Infighting with the Tories, or simple jealousy from certain individuals.

On another note, you can see why extremely rich people go into politics. Shaping policies to suit your own purse must be a blast.
 
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