I would imagine it would be a whole host of factors. Easier to hire/retain staff if you have a UK presence, fears about the EU over-regulating, a sense that you still need to access to the areas that the UK FS sector specialise in.

I wonder, and acknowledge a bias here, if this vaccine narrative has hit home with a lot of people? That the UK has proven how it can react faster to a changing situation than the EU? Tangible evidence that a UK no longer beholden to Brussels can adapt to circumstances in a way that the 27 EU member states cannot?

Problem is that none of us can truly judge the impact of Brexit for at least 18 months or so. And we are all guilty, to various degrees, of seizing upon anything that helps us back up our own views on it.

Willing to acknowledge that.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

And Labour and the general left didn't.

Now the Tories are left wing as well and couldn't give a monkey's as long as the house prices don't fall.

It's all about state control of your life.....wear the mask, think what we want you to think and enjoy the life we allow you to live.

Can't complain about it now....especially as the Greens are this times two.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 Feb 2021 3.40pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

When you become so right wing without realising that you think the Tories are a left wing party.

You and Stirling are two peas in the same pod.

The Tories use to be a right wing party....how's that.

Only a liar would deny the Tories shift to left wing social policies.....policies they had previously been fighting for decades.

It's a bit like a Labour supporter during the Blair years denying that they had shifted their economic policies to the right.

But it's true that socially I'm on the social or dissentient right, while still believing in some liberal ideals.

Just not neo and social liberalism, which might as well be global corporate communism....which is a fecking disaster.

Edited by Stirlingsays (24 Feb 2021 1.48pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I noticed that Labour are gearing up to slam Rishi's Tory tax rises, who would have thought that Labour the party of low taxes.

One more point

LOL.

Also this today,from the Guardian...

Austria and Denmark to work with Israel on future Covid jabs, saying EU 'too slow' [Link]

One of the main reasons I wanted out of the EU was because it is so so s***. And I don't blame it for that, I blame the wider political culture of nations dumping their failures on it by way of getting rid of them. Got a moron in Government who has too much dirt on people to just sack? Then move them on to Brussels. Happens time and time again and now people are paying the price.

If offers the worst combination of factors for flawed modern politicians to be left running. And its a shame. The ideals which drive the EU are worthy ones. But the execution of it is beyond appalling. And the rot is far to deeply engrained to make it worth saving. The sooner it implodes, the better for hundreds of millions of people being impoverished and now having their well-being damaged by it.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Reduce corporation tax is the way forwards.
That would certainly stimulate companies to invest.

That will keep CP happy. Oh, I thought you said taxis.

Consumption and investment both need to be encouraged at the moment until growth is back in a stronger position and that's when taxes should go up. Keeping all taxes as low as possible until that is the case is the sensible approach. Any tax hikes in this budget are political rather than due to economics.