Free FT game for everyone to play - you can be the chancellor setting the budget

TScolumnist.bsky.socialOct 15, 2024 9:32am

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The Chancellor Game: Can you run the UK economy?

Step into the chancellor’s shoes and devise your Budget plan

No doubt the algorithms are neo-liberal.

It’s interesting that the criterion for success here is balancing the public deficit - something that we know isn’t necessary since the papers justifying austerity have been thoroughly debunked! Why is it not getting the economy growing again? Making people’s lives better? Investing in our future?

My budget balanced but apparently still caused chaos

Don't send it to Truss or Kwarteng, they'll somehow manage to bring down the website or possibly the whole internet.

It gets upset about £80bn in budget measures. Okay, that's a lot of money, but it's still less than 7% of total govt expenditure. If anything this game just draws attention to the Budget (drawn at this level) being a show, more than anything of substance

I enjoyed that and am thankful l’ll never be the chancellor and having to keep all those plates spinning.

If you go to a restaurant where they eat the rich, it’s tax deductible.

gonna do market socialism for two glorious years until I get thrown out by a no-confidence vote

Setting the budget, but NOT the fiscal rules!