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The laws we need to change to grow and improve the UK
Recovering from Thatcherism. > how Thatcherism left Britain the poorest country in Northern Europe, how a return to competition could fix it, and why "just crush the NIMBYs" is a really bad plan for boosting British growth. By me. Just now. tomforth.co.uk/recoveringfrom…
@thomasforth Now beyond my ken: The lines plotted in the OBR chart apply a restricted international definition from the OECD that strips out specific components of resource revenues to allow for uniform comparisons between countries
@thomasforth Do you have access to: cambridge.org/core/books/abs… "…By the time Mrs Thatcher left office in 1990, total taxation had fallen to 35.5 per cent of GDP, still above the level when she came to power."
Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opi… via @nytopinion
@DanNeidle Maybe we're not talking about the same thing? Average worker now pays The Airport Traveler Tax, Insurance Premium Tax, higher shelf prices due to Soft Drinks Industry Levy, Council Tax and fiscal drag. That's why I was sure that average workers are paying more tax than 1993
@DanNeidle @thomasforth Are UK ISAs too generous?
@TheEconomist 2% will not address the problems or restrain the power of billionaires but it's a wedge to start with Public needs to share in profits that companies make on the back of public research and investments
@BenZaranko Historically, companies like BT, EE, Vodafone, and Virgin Media hid a clause in the small print stating bills would rise every April: rate of inflation + 3.9%. During the recent years of high inflation, this caused peoples' bills to skyrocket by 8% to 11% mid-contract
@DanNeidle Part of the reason: political parties pretended that they'd not raise taxes by ruling out headline taxes Another part: government services outsourced, raising overall government costs
@SebMilbank When the government squanders money, where does the money end up?
@gwynedd8364 @edwinhayward @DanNeidle Fair comment. I should found a citation for that figure. 6% came for a FoI request and is a projection moneyweek.com/personal-finan…
@bbclaurak Interview contained no specifics
@gwynedd8364 @edwinhayward @DanNeidle About 6% of workforce
@DanNeidle Good question as an exercise. Something within the apprenticeship world? Perhaps helping 15 year olds enter?
@implausibleblog Increase the minimum wage and let retailers apply for benefits if they can't break even. This would reduce benefit claims for millions of citizens to hundreds or thousands of companies, saving a lot in government administration
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@AlbertaTeeCo I suggest they learn from the UK's vote and insist on detailed plans from both sides of the argument. To exit without a plan is tragic for a country. Alberta would be landlocked... how does it export and at what political cost?
Britain calls itself a service economy. It's very good at generating profit from services. But what does it charge for foreign projects? Tunnel Project Total Cost Total Length Cost/km Silvertown Tunnel (London) £2.0Bn 1.4 km £1,428m/km Rogfast (Norway) £1.9Bn 27km £70m/km
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