A cheer for escaping the Euro-yoke! The UK’s balance of trade with the EU has seriously improved. The value of UK goods imports from the EU fell by £6.6bn in January, while exports to them fell only £5.6bn. That’s good, isn’t it? Anyway Covid will have caused some dips, and since our newly sovereign nation …
Monthly archives: March 2021
Budget Bits
Saint Rishi’s budget mostly seemed sensible enough. A Hindu’s very Augustinian approach: “Grant us tax to pay this monstrous debt, but not yet”. There’ll be quibbles: taking away the paltry £20 surplus to our stingy dole at precisely when unemployment is expected to be worst is mean, but probably stupid rather than pernicious. His numbers …
Do They Know It’s 0.2% At All?
Saint Rishi’s clawing back of a promised international development spend with a 60% funding withdrawl to what the UN is calling “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world” is callous in the extreme. Apparently Honest Boris’s clique have killed enough at home, time to move on. 400,000 children are an easy target. It’s OK. They’re …