Month: April 2016

Brexit Thoughts 7: Leaflet Rage

April 7, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The government has decided to spend £9 million (to government the expenditure equivalent of an ice-cream) on leaflets to be sent to all of us, explaining why we are have having this absurd referendum, what the value of belonging to the EU is and what are the risks of leaving, organised into a simple factual format. Very […]

Tax Leak: The Artful Dodgers

April 5, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The mayhem caused by the leak of documents spilling the beans on tax dodging, money laundering, wealth concealment and much else is only just beginning. More and more will spill. Heads of State, crooks, fraudsters and the mega rich are all there. Including the Cameron family. The excuses coming out of Downing Street are that the […]

The Economy: Markets or Management?

April 4, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The steel crisis has revealed the inherent problems with the post Thatcher Tory party. It believes the state has no place in either business or markets. Unless state intervention drives up capital values or supports property prices and low wage costs. So billions are used to subsidise excessive rents and low wages or to support […]

Migration: The Big Issue

April 3, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

World events are hard to predict and few would have foreseen that in the second decade of the twenty-first century mass migration would threaten the cohesion of Europe or indeed that it would be the outcome of the ill judged War on Terror. There are two kinds of migration. That which is legal, organised and approved; […]

Brexit Thoughts 6: A Vote For What?

April 2, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is becoming clear that Leave cannot articulate a coherent plan for exactly how the UK will prosper if we leave the EU. These anti EU idealists believe in their hearts that to leave and be free is all that matters. Only a minority, certainly a motivated minority, agree, but enough who will follow a cause […]

GB: A Nation Of Steel

April 1, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

When a crisis breaks upon a country, what is needed is a decisive government that acts fast and firm. News that  the core of Britain’s industrial power, utterly fundamental to any notion of a manufacturing economy (a notion abandoned by the asset inflating Tories some while back although not admitted) is on the brink, has […]