Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health
Politics, Gaming, Music, Mental Health And other stuff.. Updated when Able
Businesses often issue strong warnings when governments introduce new Budgets, taxes or regulations. Some predictions prove accurate. Others fade quickly or are shown to be exaggerated.
I’m going to compare some major examples where businesses warned of economic damage, identifying when they were right, when they were wrong, and which political party was responsible for the Budget or policy.
AI and ML are great tools, they are not Experts. You need to validate what they tell you. a story of how my last blog post could have told a totally different story if I had not sense checked it and validated the calculations the computer did.
What Your Tax Really Buys: It’s Not a Bill, It’s a Bumper Policy! 🛡️Stop thinking of tax as a deduction—start seeing it as a collective insurance policy against life’s biggest expenses.
Using Trotsky’s classic 1930s analysis of fascism, this post explains how modern UK politics compares to the US experience of Trumpism — and why Nigel Farage and Reform UK, despite sharing some populist themes, are not the British MAGA. A clear, evidence-linked look at inequality, class, media, trust, and identity shaping two democracies under similar pressures but radically different outcomes.
Did Leon Trotsky accidentally predict Trumpism? In 1932, Trotsky described how fascism grows out of economic crisis, political paralysis, and a disillusioned middle class. When you compare that with late-20th and early-21st century America, the similarities are… uncomfortably recognisable. But the differences matter just as much. Here’s what Trotsky gets right — and where the comparison breaks down.
Over the last few posts, we’ve looked at how the UK’s national debt has been shaped by empire-building and war. That naturally leads to another question: did ordinary people in the 19th century push back against any of this?
The short answer: yes—loudly, and often.
So having looked at how the UK’s national debt is related to Large wars and the maintenance of the Empire this asks the question , was it beneficial to the majority of UK citizens?.
Continuing from my previous post – I look into the war that ended the era of fiscal success and who benefitted from it financially, as we are still paying off this debt.
The 300 year Uk Debt and how we repaid it during the 1800’s.
Well some of it.. The Victorian Debt Busters: Tax, Investment, and one more secret. Also who Profited from the Crimean War.
What started out as an interest in whether the sale of the Nation’s assets generated value for the country or not has led me to a nasty discovery.
Based on data available from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), I am sorry to report that the UK has been living beyond its means for years, no, let me make that decades—actually, possibly even centuries. Yes, the UK Government has been in debt for over 300 years.
