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Badenoch has the right diagnosis, does she have the right solutions?

Rewiring of domestic legislation essential. Human rights act, town and country planning act, equality act.

Three places to start
www.thetimes.com/article/452d...
Kemi Badenoch: We must stop rewarding ministers for managerialism — and reprogram the state
The way we govern, bogged down by the ever-increasing bureaucratic burden, no longer works. Unless the system is changed, plans to improve the UK are doomed
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
The warning signs of the economy are flashing. 🚨

Reeves tax rise on businesses looks ill judged.

Doesn’t bode well for mid term decisions.
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Lot of fuss about nothing, isn’t the median voter in the UK against Trump?

So Labour volunteering in US against him isn’t going to be an issue with most people here.
October 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Zonal planning rules are good.

More of this
September 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Over doing the gloom becomes a self fulfilling prophesy

See latest consumer confidence for details
September 20, 2024 at 7:45 AM
If I were the government I just wouldn’t have been all high and mighty in opposition and not practise what I preached
September 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
I bet starmer wishes the Acoba committee had ruled against now. inews.co.uk/opinion/why-...
Why Sue Gray is becoming an ‘unsustainable’ bad-news headache for No 10
Starmer’s chief of staff is being blamed as special advisers get fed-up and  fractious - and Labour's machine stutters
inews.co.uk
September 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
We got so used to super low interest rates today’s rates seem high even tho historically not.

We need more capex for growth and improved productivity.

The level of capex needed isn’t enough from tax or cuts.

Debt as % of GDP will improve if capex-> growth productivity gains
I think what we might have here is that rare thing, a principal disagreement in economics. Formerbankofenglandeconomist Reeves (Rachel is her middle name) has a basically New Keynesian mental model, in which the business cycle is caused by sticky prices and lower bounds..

www.ft.com/content/b0df...
UK spending cuts would damage ‘foundations of the economy’, Reeves told
Letter from leading economists calls for overhaul of Britain’s fiscal rules to boost investment
www.ft.com
September 16, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Starmer is falling into the trap he set himself re donations/sleaze

A millionaire being gifted clothes Whilst getting rid of winter fuel allowance for poor pensioners will get huge cut thru.

A sandcastle landslide it most definitely was.
September 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
First post on here to say.

Only Badenoch can beat starmer (who is beatable) in 2029. MPs of course will conspire to not put her in the final two.
Second ballot of the Conservative leadership election:
Robert Jenrick 33
Kemi Badenoch 28
James Cleverly 21
Tom Tugendhat 21
Mel Stride 16.
September 11, 2024 at 9:29 AM