June was busy.
I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west country, the south coast and the Isle of Wight; partly overseas – I visited Ibiza for a few days of R&R.
Meanwhile, the election campaigns were in full swing. Nigel Farage did his Nth U-turn, and decided to enter the race after all. I didn’t write it about it contemporaneously, and now that it’s after the election I’m not going to say much about it here.
My main observation is that Labour’s talk about supporting ‘working people‘ was defined pretty sharply by Sir Keir Starmer as thus meaning that investors (people who can “write a cheque” when they need to) are likely to end up paying more tax/contributing more. That means me, and every other reader of this blog.
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