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Voters are suspicious of international agreements
There is growing suspicion of government by international treaties. Democratic countries find increasing restrictions on what their elected representatives can do as they tie themselves in a colonial type relationship to global and regional quangos. The ultimate most powerful one is the EU
Prime Ministers and Presidents are expected to devote...Read More »
BBC selective use of forecasts and figures
Facts4eu have taken up my arguments over GDP growth rates last year and this:
Facts4EU Article: https://facts4eu.org/news/2023_apr_bbc_fake_news
Facts4EU Twitter: https://twitter.com/Facts4euOrg/status/1647473668295991296?s=20
Facts4EU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Facts4EU/posts/pfbid02TDEFy4yzNrLAdCGoQN98ibMyqzmyRRsknKWiw2iTvSvLauDk1Kg6V8vWrjrVG56Zl
...Read More »World Health Organisation
There will be a debate over the proposed new WHO Treaty obligations on Monday. I will oppose the UK accepting new legally binding obligations to future WHO decisions unknown.
...Read More »The government and the Union of the UK
Rishi Sunak took a gamble in Scotland. He decided to use the powers of the Union Parliament to challenge a piece of SNP legislation wanted by the Scottish Parliament, because it intrudes on reserved matters to the Union Parliament. It also happened to be unpopular with many Scottish voters, and...Read More »
Can the Bank of England get it right?
The latest addition to the Monetary Policy Committee is an economist who mainly tweets on Greece and the USA. She comes to the task with some scepticism about the lurch from Quantitative easing to Quantitative tightening and with an understanding that tight money policies bring recessions. This scepticism is going...Read More »