The credit-card analogy

A few years ago I wrote a blog post about the budget deficit, which, let me be the first to admit, was written when I was somewhat more naive. I could hide the apologia for the Tory cuts agenda, which has, as it turned out to no-one’s actual surprise, aimed towards to less privileged in … Read more

The deficit and all that.

(Note, January 2013: This post was written when I was more naive to economic circumstances. It is best read in a perspective from before the cuts starting. It is kept in the purposes of transparency and does not accurately reflect my current thoughts on the matter.)

Belt up, this is going to be a big one.

So yeah. That march a couple of weeks ago. At a generous estimate, 400,000 marched against the government’s spending cuts. And while I sympathise with them, I also think that it was just a waste of time due to how it ended up.

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