If you have a deficit in your household budget you have two options. You can cut your expenditure or you can increase your income. Or you can do some of each. Some expenditures are difficult to cut and some occupations do not readily offer income expansion. The government, any government, has the same choices. For […]
Most people thought it impossible that he would survive the primaries. Even more ridiculed the notion that he could clinch the nomination. That he could be president was off the page, the more so since the tape, the gropings and the non taxes. Yet here is, on a roll, the polls narrowing and Clinton imploding […]
Malcolm Blair-Robinson is a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, he became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 he published his idea of Dynamic Quantitative Easing which aroused interest in high places and this forms a core […]
Political and economic commentators are somewhat perplexed by the enthusiasm of Nissan management for the commitment to competitiveness, the assurances, the industrial strategy and the support for innovation, which they have found in the Brexit plans of the May government. So enthusiastic are they, that they plan to build not one new model in Sunderland, […]
This blog, as readers know, is no fan of Tony Blair, or of his political child New Labour. Both are subject to unrelenting criticism in my Dissertation Turn Left For Power. Indeed whenever he intervenes in UK politics, usually with some anti- Corbyn rant, this blog rushes to slap his argument down. But today he […]
Taken from a rational economic perspective, the picture of this additional runway for Heathrow looks sharp and sensible and is widely supported by business as the right choice. If it ended there we could be confident that the project will proceed. It does not end there. It starts there, so where does it end? The odds […]
Whichever way you look, problems are piling up over Brexit. This is because the Brexit which everyone was promised is a fantasy. Even if a soft Brexit were pushed through the EU council of ministers, the chances of an absolute majority in the EU parliament backing it are slim and as we now see from the Canada […]
This result is very significant. It is way off the national opinion polls with not just a big drop in the Tory share of the vote but a big advance for the Lib Dems. This will play heavily into politics at Westminster, because the Lib Dems are the only party which is actively campaigning to […]
There are reports that May’s ministers, in conversations with EU officials, reveal a surprising lack of knowledge of the details of how the EU actually works. This would explain the complete paralysis apparently gripping the government about how to proceed with Brexit, because their Brexiteers had literally no idea what was involved. It is established that […]
No. Not yet. He remains in the fight, a loose cannon firing off in all directions, none of which is a traditional aiming point. He is certainly bloodied, but he is not broken. The polls have slipped, but they have not crashed. Many of his supporters are young women who should be running miles from The Groper, […]