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Tricky. Wage scarring is probably just shared more equally so effects small.

My fault. But surely it's only the most social Darwinist who positively like a disproportionately low tax burden on the wealthy, apart from the wealthy of course

I think 45% income tax plus 24% CGT, much avoided, would be higher ideally, but their behavioural response plus the advantages of international capital flows mean a higher tax burden may be negative for GDP.

My biggest one is probably high taxes on the wealthy (many of whom lack any sense of solidarity). It's hard for govt to differentiate between those who create wealth for others and those who are pure rentiers.

The last lot who marched on the hotel didn't seem very nice

Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers

It might reduce Lib-Dem to Tory switching.

Tradwives should organise knitting watch-a-longs to Hegseth's televised execution.

They're hideous. Wind turbines are OK

Agreed on Chinese EVs.

Not a huge fan of tech, pylons, disruption from construction, rip-off masters degrees for international students, accepting lower consumption for higher investment. I could go on.

Isn't this pedantry? I thought we could take falling domestic production as read. Which means that maintaining current share of hydrocarbons in final energy demand = increasing imports = increasing terms of trade risks. Perhaps you're right that we end up with a glut. Perhaps not.

Well, yes

So you'd recommend maintaining the current share of gas in the UK's final energy demand?

Obviously, yes. And makes the economy less susceptible to terms of trade shocks in a basic input. Small energy-intensive industrial base anyway; big problem is transport and the heating of buildings.

Too cynical: decent evidentiary basis for all of my suggestions.

That's two shocks in four years. And countries that responded to the first one more forcefully have fared better the second time around.

Terms of trade disagree with you.

You don't think it would be better for growth than more reliance on foreign hydrocarbons, higher trade barriers, less competition, fewer scientists and tech people trained, more congested infra?