Apparently there is an average age at which the average person becomes a Tory voter, and it’s Increased from 47 to 51 in the last couple of years.. Perhaps by then you’ve stopped worrying about your kids’ future and think you should be paying less tax. For me, it’s worked in reverse. After 30-something years, which started with Maggie in 1979, I cast my last Conservative vote in 2015. Maybe (and with any luck) I’m Benjamin-Buttoning into a millennial; and of course, it’s Brexit what done it. But there has to be a better way. I’d say.
“Cut interest rates to prevent recession, says Institute of Economic Affairs’ SMPC”
The ‘lag’, ‘trailing leg’ or ‘long wake’ of any economic measure means that its effects are often felt long after the problem it was supposed to solve has disappeared. 2010’s ‘balancing the books within the space of one parliament’ (that went well, didn’t it?), austerity to you and me, is one example.
