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.
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.
So For the last few months I’ve been refreshing my data analysis skills, learning python and improving my coding. As part of that I have created and I am still working on this dashboard looking at Political Donations in the UK between 2001 and 2019 – I am also looking to extend the data whenContinueContinue reading “UK Political Donations Analysis 2001-2019”
