Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶

Centrist dad, trying to find my way in a world where a small number of vocal extremists seem to hold all the power. Views are my own

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

@johnredwood *sigh*
Raising interest rates really isn’t the answer here

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

First thread in years, but had to get this off my chest.

The BoE is expected to increase interest rates today, driving up mortgage costs and likely putting the brakes on business investments across the economy.

My question is - why?

1/x

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

@Korgash Well of course the Tories would struggle to get to grips with this, but aren’t QE and interest rates driven by the (supposedly) independent BoE?
Also it would be good to see some more radical thinking from @UKLabour along these lines.

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

First thread in years, but had to get this off my chest.

The BoE is expected to increase interest rates today, driving up mortgage costs and likely putting the brakes on business investments across the economy.

My question is - why?

1/x

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

But whatever the case, surely we need at least to be a bit more creative in how we use the mechanisms available to us, rather than just chugging away with the same old solutions to what are fundamentally different problems 11/11

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Now as I said, I’m no economist so I could be completely wrong on this - perhaps someone more knowledgeable can correct me. 10/x

[LBC @LBC]

James O'Brien's epic takedown of 'useless, cowardly and dishonest' Liz Truss.

@mrjamesob

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@_DHOTYA This seems plausible. Just the bit she left out in the ‘long story short’ was that when she says she’s tweeting from the UK, she means a UK based immigration office as they won’t let her through passport control.

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@IAPonomarenko You should send this offer to a Mr V Putin in Moscow. I hear he’s running low on cash.

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@AskVirginMoney Yes, it was a large payment made on the 11th September. There was also a much smaller one made on 26th September

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@AskVirginMoney Is it possible to send an update to credit reference agencies about my credit card account balance. Currently my balance on Experian is showing £5k more than it should. Need to get it updated ASAP due to a mortgage application

[Chris Morris 🇪🇺🇬🇧🔶 @chrisMLibDem]

@ToniScottSays @mr__mo @IanDunt How many elections do Lab need to lose to realise that PR would benefit them as well? Blair years were an anomaly. In reality Lab NEED PR, especially if they want a leftwing agenda. With PR, we’d be looking at a Lab/SNP/LD coalition today. FPTP only works for Tories.