Forget buy-to-let Britain and build your empire in France, because Britain is too far down the road to turn back now

Britain is mortgaging its future to prop up the present, writes Simon Tisdall. The country is in a fix – if only the coming election offered us a choice of how to solve it, he says. The coming election offers us a chance to choose how to deal with the problem, he writes.

Britain is already too far down the road to serfdom to turn back now. The Budget won’t fix the economy or the Tories’ problems, it simply reflects the managerial consensus. It simply reflects a managerial consensus, says Simon Tisdall. Britain is now too far away from serfom to turn its back now, he says.

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