Category Archives: Economics

A strange subject to write about for someone who sometimes struggles to add up. However this is economics as it applies to the social and cultural fabric of our lives together.

Businesses need much better trading arrangements

Posted on September 12, 2018 by ianchisnall

Yesterday in the post our company received two heavy A4 envelopes full of many pages with small print on each one. One came to my desk because I deal with new business opportunities, the other came to my colleagues desk … Continue reading →

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Food poverty must be raised up the Governments Agenda

Posted on September 6, 2018 by ianchisnall

Whenever foodbank issues get raised with the Government, we hear stories from MPs and sometimes Ministers that demonstrate they are ignorant people who need to spend more time visiting the foodbanks in their communities. Two classic examples being that of … Continue reading →

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The need for a different approach

Posted on September 4, 2018 by ianchisnall

A few days ago the Conservative Party published a short video message pointing out that our exporting trade with India and China has grown by 20% over the last year. This prompted me to check out the latest Office for … Continue reading →

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Damian and Theodore need to stop patronising

Posted on September 2, 2018 by ianchisnall

The delayed publication on Friday 20th July 2018 at the end of the School year of a ‘workload reduction toolkit’ for Schools has now been followed by the publication of a ‘cost cutting toolkit’ on Friday 31st August at the … Continue reading →

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Overseas Aid and Business opportunities are very different matters

Posted on August 29, 2018 by ianchisnall

The suggestion made by Theresa May that the £4bn of UK aid being promised to four African Nations could lead to benefits for British Businesses is deeply disturbing. The purpose of overseas aid, just like the purpose of aid funds … Continue reading →

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Rona Fairhead is suffering from a deep blindspot

Posted on August 21, 2018 by ianchisnall

Speaking this morning on Radio 4 Today, Rona Fairhead the Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion made two very clear statements regarding businesses and indeed society as a whole and then failed to deal with the very evident … Continue reading →

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Kevin Hollinrake MP must jump off the fence

Posted on August 10, 2018 by ianchisnall

Today on World At One following on from the news of the sale of House of Fraser to Mike Ashley, Kevin Hollinrake, the MP for Thirsk and Malton was invited to speak to Jonny Dymond about how retail businesses were … Continue reading →

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Is this ignorance or an attempt to deceive?

Posted on August 9, 2018 by ianchisnall

  The top image is a poster from the Department for International Trade which was published by Liam Fox on Tuesday on twitter with the tweet reproduced in the text below. The lower image is the information from the European … Continue reading →

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A No-Deal Brexit may allow us to adopt WTO rules!

Posted on August 5, 2018 by ianchisnall

In the last few days the profile of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been raised on social media and broadcasts as the prospect of a No-Deal Brexit is growing. The points of reference I refer to below were interviews … Continue reading →

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The failure to ignore Amazons response

Posted on August 4, 2018 by ianchisnall

Yesterday on World at One the apparent failure by Amazon to pay meaningful tax levels was discussed by Jonny Dymond and a couple of other people at the beginning of the programme. As Jonny pointed out the profit from Amazon … Continue reading →

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