Here’s one we haven’t heard before from a chancellor. Rishi says he has ‘a sacred responsibility’ to balance the books. That’s almost a sworn commitment, so should we be afraid – be very afraid? One politician’s ‘balancing of the books’ is, of course, another’s ‘that doesn’t count as debt because it’s an investment for our future’. And in the last 50 years, we’ve had a new chancellor, on average, every two and a half years. So, I think, at most, be apprehensive- be just a little apprehensive.
“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”
There’s a perception that whatever might be the consequences for the rest of the world, Trump as President should be good for business. Surely, as a business man himself, he’d be the friend of Corporate America, and everything, money-making-wise, went pretty well last time around didn’t it?
