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by caoilte 1353 days ago
That sort of fantastical thinking is quite rare outside of fringe parties (left and right). The UK Labour party's spending plans in 2019 were fully costed exactly in order not to spook the markets. (Naturally that's not how the media portrayed the situation of course.)

Ignoring the markets hasn't been possible since Nixon ended the gold peg.