Just giving this a wee nudge today...
Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) profile pictureEd Conway
@EdConwaySkyOct 17
✍️ Britain does have an economic model. It just happens to be a consumer website. I wrote something about the moneysavingexpert economy and why it's facing an existential crisis. And why this isn't just a UK issue... Have a read👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-…

Oct 28, 2026 · 9:22 AM UTC

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A nation of switchers, and the one supplier nobody can leave is HMRC.
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We may have an economic model, but we need an entirely new one.
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But I also just watched you accept that CGT should be equalised with income tax. How can I trust anything you say when you can’t correct the person onscreen who keeps pushing “income” from wealth and conflating with capital gains? Income from wealth is already taxed as income.
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The UK economic model is broken because people are financial illiterate and some that even bother visiting moneysavingexpert do make sensible financial choices. As Tesco's tagline say. Every little helps.
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Factor in EU trade, nuclear, North Sea oil & gas, steel, petrochemicals, & CCUS, and ask yourself: how much self-inflicted pain could we have saved if we’d protected our industrial backbone instead of trying to "Bargain Hunt" our way through global supply chains?
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💯 Britain offshored manufacturing in favour of becoming a 'service economy'. Whilst studying to be an Industrial designer in the early 2000s I remember James Dyson warning passionately against this. What happens now to digital 'service' jobs in an age of AI? 😬
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