Monthly Archives: November 2015

Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2015: A Mixed Blessing

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Well, ‘Houdini George’ seems to have managed to keep our deficit reduction plans on target by the end of the Electoral Term with a small surplus thanks to Tax Receipts that are greater than expected. Whether these will be recalculated along the way who knows? One hopes that the Chancellor has not been imprudent here by assuming that all is ‘well with the world’.

Education and Healthcare were ring-fenced as expected and Defence spending meets our NATO commitment of 2% of GDP as promised. Everything was ‘rosy in the garden’ until the subject of Housing was brought up. Continue reading →

Advice For The Chancellor In Preparing The Autumn Statement 2015

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Dear George

I am certain that you have a lot to do before next Wednesday’s Autumn Statement and I am sure you are mindful that you are not only our esteemed Chancellor, but you could be Prime Minister Elect.

There are a few issues that need your urgent attention.

Firstly, despite what you read in the headlines, the Residential Property Market in London beyond £1.5million is grinding to a halt.  I know you are not ordinarily concerned about deflation in prices of the more expensive properties in this sector for the moment but, if there is a full-blown recession, it may come up and ‘bite you on the bottom’. Continue reading →

Cyber Crime – Possibly The Greatest Threat To Mankind A Real Life ‘Catch me if you can’ Scenario

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Let’s face it cyber crime/warfare, above anything else, could be the greatest of all threats to humanity, possibly, even to include nuclear warfare and may be the most devastating and invasive weapon of them all.

Why do you think the Chinese are spending so much money investigating Space warfare rather than the billions that the US spend on their ‘rusting hulks’ of their very expensive Armed Forces? Continue reading →