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Stock market falls were not just Trump’s tariffs – many other negatives persist

Article from IREF website

Published on 17th May 2025

Original article published by IREF Europe on 14th May 2025

Introduction

The recent major fall in global stock markets was too large to be solely attributable to Trump’s tariffs. It is an adjustment and possibly the introduction to a period of downwards adjustments for investors. The amount of profit available […]

My Daily Express comments on Starmer’s EU Re-set, after trade deals with India and the USA

Express article headline on 11th May 2025

Published on 16th May 2025

Daily Express article published on 11th May 2025

The week of 5th May was a big one in the Brexit debate and a big win for the Leavers, in the form of trade deals struck with two of the world’s largest economies, the USA and India.

Of […]

Interview with MoneyMagpie on the UK, EU and the euro

13th May 2025

The UK would have been sucked further into the euro if we had stayed in the EU.

The EU – and still more the Eurozone – is a protectionist regime, with high prices and high entry barriers, created by rules and regulations directed by the state and drafted by major EU suppliers.

It is not […]

Labour threaten to attack our young people – as if Uni-party had not damaged them enough

Youth unemployment – rising in your area soon!

Published on 31st March 2025

Introduction

A new offensive has been opened in Labour’s civil war against the British nation. The next group of soft targets are those well-recognized ‘enemies of the people’: the young.

Rachel Reeves used a recent appearance on Sky to read out the judgement passed on them […]

Contempt for voters is the new democratic norm

My recent comments about the release of the German Debt Brake

Published on 25th March 2025

Introduction

Ruling elites are perfectly happy to go along with constitutions, electoral systems, timing of elections and all the other paraphernalia of democracy as long it suits them and lands them or their peer group back at the controls of power.

‘Peer group’ […]

Tactics to remove German Debt Brake would make Hermann Göring blush

Daily Express article with my comments

Published on 17th March 2025

Introduction

The plan to remove Germany’s Debt Brake has been widely hailed as a tremendous breakthrough, wonderful for Europe and for the Eurozone.

However, the means to get it through the Parliament with the required 66% majority (as it is a change in the constitution) demonstrate that Europe’s […]

T2 Disaster Recovery arrangements are synthetic, befitting a synthetic currency

Screenshot of ECB website

Published on 13th March 2025

T2 (formerly known as TARGET2) is a systemically-important payment system and the Real-Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for the euro. As such it should be a ‘5-nines’ system, enjoying 99.999% availability during its scheduled operating hours.

On 27th February it went down from 10:15 until 18:00 CET, according to […]

Carney appointment weakens democracy – and undermines Charles’ legitimacy as Head of State

From the Government of Canada official website

11th February 2025

Introduction

The appointment of Mark Carney as Prime Minister of Canada lacks democratic legitimacy. It exemplifies emerging devices to escape accountability and bypass the voter, thereby demonstrating contempt for the voter.

Appointment not election

One device is appointment by other politicans rather than election by voters: Rishi Sunak and two […]

UK payments – now officially a ‘state-directed’ activity, not an industry

Annoucement of the nomenklatura appointed to direct UK payments for the state

26th February 2025

Payments is now an area in which the public policy agenda dominates

The National Payments Vision Committee and Vision Engagement Group are now in place as the forum within which the future of payments in the UK will be decided, in a process […]

What a surprise: the UK’s self-employed and microenterprises are in the mire – but don’t blame Labour (yet)

24th February 2025

Introduction

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s ‘Commentary on the Public Sector Finances: January 2025’, issued on 21st February 2025, contained a statistic that has horrified the august bodies that oversee the nation’s finances, although the statistic oracle itself – the Office for National Statistics, issuer of ‘Public Sector Finances, UK: January 2025’ – maintains […]