TPA

20 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a challenge for Bexley YC's 57 year old chairman, the Quantum scandal and Amaroq for the FTSE 250 this week?

I start with the welfare calculator from the TPA and numbers that are stunning us all but also look at Covid bounce back loan fraud. That brings me to the economic flatulence of Kemi’s Tories and why its tax pledges play so badly in places like Wrexham, a must win seat. That is my challenge for Evil Banksta and his YC chums. Then it is Amaroq (AMRQ), Kendrick (KEN), the Quantum Blockchain (QBT) scandal and Petra Diamonds (PDL). PS Do enter Lucian’s prize contest HERE

20 days ago

What's the benefits bill where you live? Fascinating new tool from the TPA

You can find out HERE thanks to the Taxpayers Alliance. Where I live in Wrexham, £244 million will be handed out this year in benefits, that is an average of £2049 per person – up 16.2% since Labour came to power.

561 days ago

The 84% marginal rate of tax which kills off UK PLC

The media is full of MPs and lacky journalists praising MPs for going to work on a Saturday. Many if we folk who run SMEs work every Saturday ( and Sunday) so you will excuse me if I do not join in this praise. It shows just how out of touch the media and political class is that they deem this “sacrifice” by folks on £90,000 a year worthy of merit. More seriously it is claimed that saving the Scunthorpe steel works is part of a growth agenda. Bollocks.

5163 days ago

Non Job of the Week in General and Specifically

If one listens to the BBC or reads the Guardian the wicked Tories are slashing public spending. These means real cuts to front-line services which means the poorest and weakest folks in society really suffering. Ahem…it is just not true.

The facts are that Government spending is increasing in real terms (and per head of population in real terms) year on year and will continue to do so throughout this Parliament. And since tax receipts are patently not going up as fast (indeed I suspect at all) that means that the UK Government deficit and UK national debt will continue to increase. At one stroke the wicked Tories both enrage the lefties but actually do nothing to sort out the economic mess we are in.