Come on Chris, you can do better than this!

Struggle to follow this reasoning from the government - do they think cash Isas literally function like cash under the bed?

What is stopping banks using Isa funding to invest? Is the government saying they don't trust banks to optimally allocate capital?

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure I will ever get over how the government talks so much about the need to reduce 'wasteful' public spending while effectively funneling tens of billions of pounds a year to the banking sector

www.bankofengland.co.uk/asset-purcha...

Allowing hedgefunds to dictate fiscal policy by shorting sovereign debt doesn't strike me as a good idea, but I suppose it's a necessary sacrifice we must make to increase the Competitiveness and Growth of the financial sector, the Crown Jewel Of Our Economy