FWIW, I think the rot set in under Mark Carney (who looks set for a comeback under Labour🙄), but I've yet to meet anyone with a good word to say about Andrew Bailey!

Thought for the day.

If an external review of the management of a private company was as damning as the #Bernanke report into the Bank of England, heads would roll... 😠

💥Anonymous Home Office official explains why no matter who is Home Secretary, Britain's borders will remain wide open:

'Despite our change in boss, when it comes to controlling Britain’s borders nothing will change. I know this because I have worked for some time as a civil…

Can Starmer be trusted with Trident?- THE COST OF Trident is just two years post Brexit saved contribution to the eu! The more important question is when are the gov going to test again to prove it works? spectator.co.uk/article/who-wi…

Reeves’ New Tax Panel Wants Higher Taxes – Guido Fawkes- A RECIPE of anti enterprise, growth reducing measures- promoting the state & killing family businesses. A RECIPE FOR ECONOMIC DISASTER order-order.com/2024/04/11/ree…

While things haven’t yet reached their 70s’ nadir – between the three-day week and soaring inflation, 1973-74 has a reasonable case for being our worst two-year stretch since the war – there are uncomfortable parallels. apple.news/Aip7s9c_xTvOM3…

Spiteful Britain is choosing poverty over growth - The Telegraph-The framework of the new political consensus is straightforward: taxes will be high, spending higher. Low-income foreigners, will be waved through Britain’s open borders to benefit apple.news/Aip7s9c_xTvOM3…

Canadian MPs sing God Save The King after blocking anti-monarchy bill | Politics | News | Express.co.uk- DIDN’T see this reported on the BBC express.co.uk/news/politics/…

Catherine McBride says ;
Fear and ignorance of world farming practices will keep UK food prices high, and African farmers poor

Webster and her followers will probably be surprised to discover the Namibian meat processing and marketing company, Meatco, not only has a subsidiary…

Fear and ignorance of world farming practices will keep UK food prices high, and African farmers poor – Global Britain globalbritain.co.uk/fear-and-ignor…

Liz Truss was right about the creeping dominance of the OBR
Models in themselves are not the problem, but they are being abused to stifle innovative policies telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Cameron made a ‘tough call’ on visiting Trump, but the gamble could pay off- A SHAME MR CAMERON, first have his new found acumen in 2016 when he should have led Brexit rather than running away! liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/04/11/cam…

The ECHR ruling that could shame our Government into climate action- Fancy being shamed into economic self harm and increasing the cost of living liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/04/11/the…

'Net impact of new Brexit checks and tariff suspensions to save UK businesses £5bn and cut inflation by 0.4 percentage points, report finds'

(Just fixed this Guardian headline for you 😉)

#Brexit #inflation

At last !

Britain suspends import duties on over 100 items.

The government said it would implement 126 new tariff suspensions on goods which aren't produced in sufficient quantities in Britain. It also said 11 other existing suspensions would be extended.

Analysis by specialist credit…

Britain looks like a basket case on the global stage, a horror pit of tribal warfare- REALLY!? Fourth largest exporter , with self determination & fleet of foot outperforming France & Germany. Oh to be compared with the v wealthy Norway or Singapore. liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/04/10/bri…

This is one of the reasons productivity has not improved- no incentive to do so. It is also why Britons have become poorer- now 27th in world PPP GDP per capita and falling.

Frost: an elite obsession with ‘net zero’ and low-cost migrant labour has added to the current economic decline of both the UK and the West. EU membership—and, particularly, single market integration from the late 1990s—distorted the UK’s economy and labour market, and led to its…

The international Left-wing elites are well on their way to crushing democracy telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…