The most serious sacrifice of sovereignty was to the EU, with its binding legal structure and its own supreme court. Other international Agreements are subject to independent arbitration where there are disputes, and are best where there is a provision to allow a country to leave should circumstances alter. One of the official and Bank of England forecasts that might prove to be right is that people face a cost of living squeeze, predicted to be at its worst in April next year.
People will face home heating cost rises, a National Insurance tax hike and Council tax rises. General inflation is likely to reach its peak before subsiding around the same time. Supply shortages around the world including microprocessors, shipping containers and various manufactured goods add to the price pressures.
The government should take some action to ease the squeeze. On energy I have set out at some length how the U. On tax I still call for the NI increase to be scrapped. In a wide range of areas where supplies are short at home and abroad we need to be looking to put in more UK capacity to cut our import dependence.
The higher spending Councils need to review their budgets to concentrate the spending on the essential services and to limit tax rises. In some cases people will enjoy wages rises above inflation where there is a shortage of their skill. It is highly likely truck drivers, chefs, hotel staff and other constrained areas will see decent real wage growth.
Many other people will be asked to accept wage rises that do not keep pace with the cost of living when tax and price rises are taken into account. The UK market feels short of a wide range of services, There are good business opportunities for those willing and able to train to work in hospitality, leisure, care, building and a wide range of other areas. There is plenty of scope for people to set up their own businesses and to get orders from a public struggling to find the help they wish to buy in.
The UK government should do more to encourage self employment and the establishment of small business. Instead of taxing it too much and in too complex a way it needs to be easier to set up and get started, as we need the extra capacity.
Many of the price rise are owing to shortages, so we do need more supply to solve the problems. The official machine is too ready to rely on imports. I think the Bank was right not to raise interest rates this week pending more knowledge of the Labour market and wage rises now the furlough scheme has ended.
I am against raising rates all the time the Bank is creating more money to buy bonds to keep rates down. It would be a contradictory policy. I have called for an end to more money creation.
The Bank has created quite enough. Savings are high, so many people could afford to spend more if they wish. Bank liquidity and capital is strong, so banks could lend more if people wanted to borrow more. There is no need to create more money. If people and companies did decide to spend much more of their cash and borrow more to increase their spending inflation would pick up more. No need to stoke the money fires further.
The task of money management is not easy. There is a slowdown underway which will be intensified by the squeeze on real incomes next spring from delayed energy price rises and the tax increase. There is also a steep and predictable rise in inflation which the Bank did not see coming earlier this year but is now forecasting. I would stop the money increases and watch the Labour market. Only if there is clear evidence of wage settlements generally taking off to embed the temporary price rises will we need higher rates.
So far the wage rises are a feature just of a limited number of activities in shortage. The government is squeezing incomes too much in the year ahead. It should cancel the National Insurance rise planned for April. During a question and answer session at a local school environmental issues dominated the exchanges about public policy as usual.
The two most important environmental questions they raised were plastic in the oceans and the need for more trees. I agreed with them about the importance of these matters. Plastic in the oceans raise difficult questions both about responsibility and about who can remedy the problem. I argued that the main blame must rest on all those people who threw the plastic away in an irresponsible manner in the first place. In the U.
Some Other countries need to educate people against littering. The U. Verges, streets and public places are regularly swept clean and the debris taken care of. More taxpayers money is spent on refuse collection, recycling and safe disposal so our plastic waste should not end up in rivers or the sea, even where it has been discarded wrongly.
He has been the MP for Wokingham since John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the s. He urged her to begin a great privatisation programme, and then took privatisation around the world as one of its first advocates before being elected to Parliament for Wokingham.
He was soon made a minister, joining the front bench in as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry.
He supervised the liberalisation of the telecoms industry in the early s and became Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities after the General Election. Shortly afterwards, John joined the Cabinet and served as Secretary of State for Wales from to In the s he campaigned widely to keep the pound, and wrote several books and articles explaining why the Euro would be wrong for the UK.
Our Currency, our country; Just Say No. John subsequently served as Chairman of the Economic Policy Review undertaken by the Opposition. A copy of the report is available here. John stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party in and again in John was a fellow of All Souls from to , again from to , and since John is a frequent commentator in the media and is a keen cricketer and water sports enthusiast, and supports a number of different charities.
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However, John Redwood sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as: John Redwood generally voted for a transparent Parliament; comparable Conservative MPs generally voted against.
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