Matthew Gerring

Washed up Britain

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Realeased latest Menagerie book in January and got a nice review in the UK amazon.co.uk/Milkomedia-Men…

Sorry that 2700trl should read 2700 bil of course.

Saw news on chan 4 that uk needs 30bil to make markets happy then estimate by a con. minister that 4% of gdp lost because not in the european common market (ecm). Gdp is ~2700 trl, so 4% is ~100bil Taxes on 100bil are ~30bil Therefore hole matches the loss from not being in ecm.

How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains? It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today: