‘Tory Fibs’ may see this as a moral choice – but it is actually rather simpler than that…. I certainly liked this question from Ian Blackford to Johnson at PMQ’s yesterday, stating that other nations (he could have pointed out, but didn’t, that all the comparitor nations were in the Eurozone and so had much… Read more
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Covid-19
Something else we seem to be world beating at..
Or at least beating the rest of Europe at… According to the 2020 release of the annual Good Childhood Report from the Children’s Society, children in Romania enjoyed the highest levels of life satisfaction, with 85% feeling positive, Finland was next with 84% and Spain and France were respectively 82% and 80% . The UK… Read more
The EU and food poverty
There is here a rather interesting podcast with Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge and the Shadow Farming and Food Spokesman. He impressed me as being very much more in command of his brief than the actual minister, who is from a wealthy Cornish farming family and MP for Redruth and Camborne, the last a town… Read more
The deficit is a record of past history and not an indication that there is no future…
I first came to doubting ‘Economics’ through Steve Keen’s ‘Debunking Economics’, which was first published in 2001! and I’ve been a skeptic ever since. I follow intermittently Steve’s conversations with Phil Dobbie which are podcasts which are often free – as indeed is this one here. In it Steve tells what he has learnt from… Read more
Frictionless trade for the future?
Oh dear – the Conservatives’ ‘easiest trade deal in history’ has turned out to be a little more difficult. We can of course, export but will the regulations allow us to export as a previous PM used to say – “without friction”? As anyone who knows about trade deals – friction is the word. Reducing… Read more
Our money? Our debt?
After reading this blogpost (well worth perusal) pointing out the importance of language in framing how we are given to understand society works, I too, have been musing over similar ideas on money and debt. We know that money is never the taxpayers’ because government has by definition, to spend it into existence before the… Read more
Sunak is a dunce
Germany has extended its furlough scheme by 2 years, but apparently Sunak thinks that for the UK this is not possible. How can he realistically suggest that the largest economy in Europe can achieve this without a fully sovereign currency, but Britain with its own currency, and economically, only one or two places below Germany,… Read more
Increasing wealth is protective of health..
I’m amazed to be agreeing with Matt Hancock: There is not a word to disagree with here – particularly that it is the first responsibility of any government is to protect its citizens. I have a friend who thinks Hancock is genuine. He could be. But if he really thinks this, certainly he has to… Read more
Government being taken to court for lack of PPE
Even if you don’t wish to contribute to the legal fund this is well worth the two minute watch!… Read more
Hardship ahead
According to a Sky News report, Conservative policies have (either purposely or inadvertently) arranged for the country to be subject to hardship ahead. Rishi Sunak said: I don’t think it’s fair to extend (furlough) indefinitely. It’s not fair to the people on it. We shouldn’t pretend there is, in every case, a job to go… Read more