Emergency Budget comment
Press Release following Coalition Government’s emergency budget, outlining the implications for savings and pensions policy.
Why it is right to cut spending now
Comment piece published in the Guardian outlining why Ros believes it is right to cut public spending immediately, rather than waiting. Here is a link to the article on Guardian website http://tinyurl.com/23wpp5o.
Brown's flawed policies
Letter written to FT (not published) critiquing Gordon Brown’s economic policies.
Budget is about politics not economics
Press Release pointing out the inadequacies of the Budget, with spending still rising despite the debt and deficit mounting.
Interactive Investor – Giveaway Budget to be followed by post-Election Takeaway Budget
Ros recorded a Gabcast for Interactive Investor website, expressing her views on the UK Budget and the irresponsibility of continued public spending increases.
Misguided QE
Letter published in Financial World magazine, explaining the dangers of distorting the gilts market with misguided QE policy.
Public sector pension costs – hiding the truth
Ros comments on the Chancellors Pre Budget Report and highlights that the public is being misled about future costs of public sector pensions. She also wants personal accounts abandoned and policy moves to promote longer working lives.
FT letter – QE increases risks for all assets
Letter published in the Financial Times explaining why the Bank of England’s gilt purchases in QE are distorting the supposedly risk free gilt market which underpins all others, and this entails significantly increased risks of asset price crashes in future.
Sunday Post – Scandal of our different rules for banks' pensions
Feature article in Scotland’s Sunday Post, discussing the injustice of taxpayers protecting bankers’ pensions in full, while not paying anything at all to restore pensions of other workers.
Taxpayers rescue bank pensions 100%
Press Release asking how it can be right that bankers’ pensions are 100% underwritten by taxpayers, while Government has always said taxpayers could not ‘afford’ to restore pension victims pensions in full, despite Parliamentary Ombudsman, High Court and Court of Appeal verdicts.