Brian Monteith
Editor at ThinkScotland
Contributor at The Telegraph
Scotsman writin' Cigar smoking' Jaguar drivin' Vino quaffin' Hibees followin' Zeppelin lovin' Wagner goin' free-marketin' Bluetrot. Ex MEP 2019-20 & MSP ‘99-‘07
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Brian Monteith
Rachel Reeves’s higher domestic taxes are punishing hard work and ambition, Ed Miliband’s Net Zero zeal is driving up energy costs and destroying our industrial competitiveness, and now Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to make US exports more challenging. No wonder Sir Keir Starmer is scrambling to cut a US trade deal and relax his own planned bans on petrol and diesel cars to help our motor manufacturers.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Monteith
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Monteith
This will be evidenced by a further stream of downgrades about the UK's future economic growth, poor PMI surveys demonstrating collapsing business confidence, continued announcements of job losses and company closures - but most worryingly, lower than expected tax revenues resulting in greater public borrowing. It will soon dawn on backbench Labour MPs that such is the economic quicksand Reeves has marched them into that tinkering around with small taxes is not going to cut it.
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1 month ago |
thecritic.co.uk | Brian Monteith
And with one bound she was free! In a feat worthy of The Great Harry Houdini, demonstrating she has more political lives than a cat, the former First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is no longer under police investigation — concerning alleged financial irregularities at the Scottish National Party when she was its leader and her husband Peter Murrell was its Chief Executive.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Brian Monteith
Rachel Reeves has managed to inflict such deep damage on the Labour Party that it will likely be headed for electoral wipe-out when voters have their say. It makes you wonder if the Chancellor is in fact one of the most successful undercover agents ever to have operated for the Conservatives. Her massive £25bn hike in employers’ payroll tax ensured that economic growth came to a grinding halt and is now becalmed.
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RT @DCBMEP: Starmer is working on a devious ‘EU reset’ package that he claims will address issues with Brexit but in reality is all about u…
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