Hey @bbclaurak@AndrewMarr9@robertpeston how long do you think you can keep your viewers in the dark as to the REAL reason for the UK's biggest Tax hike in 28 years?
Every tax hike, every spending cut is a Brexit tax or a Brexit cut. Caused by Boris's Botched Brexit
Yup: Sunak is desperately attempting to fill the Brexit-shaped hole in public finances, with a combination real-terms cuts (AKA Austerity) and the NI hike (AKA a huge fkn tax rise)
So, girls and boys of the BBC and ITV, how long can you keep your viewers from realising that
a) The new austerity is due entirely to Boris's Botched Brexit
b) The cuts are going to have to be about 3x as brutal as Osborne's £16Bn a year? Howzat for Brexit bonus?
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I've kinda assumed the reason Frostie delayed the SPS checks on EU imports again is because we haven't built the infrastructure and trained the people; just another case of "incompetent Tories couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery". What if it is more than that?
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What if it is actually an impossible task; that the nature of the imports actually makes it impossible? That it is feasible to do SPS checks on a dozen containers of frozen of lamb twice a year from New Zealand say, but it is just logistically impossible to do SPS checks on
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a mixed load of *fresh* chilled produce coming in on a ro-ro truck, half a dozen times a day? And that without even introducing full checks in Belfast and Larne yet, this EU border - handling imports for 1.8M people - was generating 25% of all "3rd country import" red tape
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...for which the net interest paid by the government is zero (it pays the interest to itself) and the other half is currently enjoying the lowest gilt yields in history, meaning the *cost* of our national debt is tge liwest it has been in 300 years.
Our £350Bn Covid debt (QE)
costs literally nothing.
The true Covid cost is the economic "scarring": how much has it *permanently* knocked off GDP?
The Tufton St gang changed the EU question from the economy, NI peace, UK power/influence into one of sobwintee, Turks, and health tourism.
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They knew what the answers to the first set of questions would be.
Now, in the decarbonisation debate they do not want the question to be: "Heat-pumps vs boilers" or "EV's vs gas-guzzlers" or "Offshore aerogenerators vs gas-fired power stations".
In all 3 cases the...
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...green option is far better for air quality and UK jobs (not to mention CO2 emissions) and the UK economy.
EV's are already cheaper in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) than gas-guzzlers
Renewables have become cheaper per KWh than gas power stations.
The Koch anti-decarbonisation lobby have clearly chosen their attack line: affordability.
They will employ the following tricks:
1. Tot up capital costs but ignore running cost savings
2. Use out of date cost data, ignoring the plummeting costs of renewables and LZCs
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3. Quote their ridiculously inflated, 30-year cumulative cost (all "adds" and no "omits") as a single cost per household. To give the impression (a) householders will have to pay it and (b) pay it all in year 1. In reality, as with most infrastructure, the cost will be...
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Met with government borrowing at an interest rate of around 0.75% (gilts) or effectively 0% (QE - the interest goes back to the government). So "£100K per household" is in reality £40K borrowing per household"
and an annual interest payment of £300... but starting at £10 in
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