That scraping sound you hear is
moving the deckchairs around on the Titanic. What’s that big white thing we’re sailing towards? The answer is an unsustainably high national debt. 1/13
As a poor man’s Donald Trump, Nigel Farage does not have credible solutions to any of these problems. On the contrary, what he has to offer would almost certainly worsen the debt crisis. Reform’s pledges on tax cuts and increased public spending are substantially larger than the Show more
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The former Tory and Ukip MP
’s “plan to get Britain back on track” is more convincing. Carswell persuasively argues that key changes in governance during the Blair-Brown years created a new deep state the Tories were unwilling or unable to master. The ClimateShow more
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Carswell’s proposed “Restoration”, beginning with a significant reduction of civil service power by means of Orders in Council, may seem far-fetched. But his ideas are no more radical than those with which Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 general election. Nor has the world changedShow more
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has eliminated the fiscal deficit, cutting it from 5 per cent of GDP to zero. He has reduced the number of government ministries from 18 to eight. With an executive order issued a few days after his inauguration, he fully deregulated key markets, including propertyShow more
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has ended the artificial dual exchange rate system and restored the central bank’s independence. He has terminated so-called intermediate organisations that for years disrupted Argentine economic life with pickets and mass mobilisations. He has overhauled the importShow more
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The result of this shock therapy has been a stunning recovery. Milei has brought monthly inflation down from 13 per cent to under 3 per cent. The economy is now growing at 8 per cent. Investors no longer shun Argentine bonds and stocks. After a brief upward jump, the poverty rateShow more
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The lesson is clear. With Labour stuck in Harold Wilson/Jim Callaghan mode and heading inevitably for “Crisis, what crisis?”, and with Farage offering secondhand populism,
needs to unleash her inner Milei. That does not mean donning a leather jacket and wielding a Show more
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That whooping sound is
’s battle cry, “Viva la libertad, carajo!” — “Long live freedom, damn it!” Britain’s tarnished Tories need to adopt it. 13/13
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