This really must have struck a chord as, indeed it should.. with the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator: As David Allen Green has remarked, taking back control of our borders seems to mean resiting them by setting up border control in Kent – fully policed by criminal sanctions for lorry drivers. While the Tudors famously lost… Read more
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Economics Theory
Project fear turns out to be all too real
As was always suggested, goods transport after leaving the EU is going to be challenging – leaving without a deal will be disastrous. As Logistics UK shows: Then come the end of the year Channel Tunnel safety rules will be in doubt because the Tories cannot stomach any obligations where the European Court of Justice… Read more
‘Sheltering’ the Economy…
“Save lives, protect the NHS” and “shelter the economy” is, according to Laura Kuenssberg (and I’m sure Progressive Pulse readers will be well aware that I read no-one else) what Johnson now wants to do. It is ‘shelter the economy’ that I find more than usually fantastical. It is as though the economy were not… Read more
Understanding the right wing mind – 6
This, I understand was sent to radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show and regrettably is the simple truth: I’m afraid our right wing rulers seem disinclined to think and when they do it is very, very, little…. Read more
Victorian government Public Health
I have looked at at a BBC Factcheck on Covid -19 testing, which is certainly interesting, and seems to put Britain near the top in Europe – for testing. Fine, for Britain, which, as the cradle of Public Health, unsurprisingly it should be. The originator of the industrial revolution really should know all about it……. Read more
Certainly our government’s intelligence seems to be artificial
Daniel Susskind ‘s book ‘A World Without Work rightly asks how do we share our combined income when clearly we can certainly no longer rely on ‘the market’ to organise its allocation. If indeed we ever could. And we know that making an economic contribution through gainful employment is frequently and for a significant minority,… Read more
The Mental illness of current British politics
There is an impressive article in the ‘i’ from Ian Dunt on the everyday dissembling of Johnson and his – and actually our – government. What we’re seeing here is not standard-issue political cynicism. It is something qualitatively different: a conscious effort to eradicate the notion of objective truth as an operating principle in British… Read more
All for an arbitrary lack of money
Having listened to BBC Radio4’s ‘Front Row’ it demonstrates that the arts, whose members are supposedly progressive and original thinkers are, like so many others, completely brainwashed into the idea that they must find ‘other’ commercial sponsorship because government money is so limited. The theatre producer and owner, Nica Burns, has said she will endeavour… Read more
Johnson’s government proves the truth of ‘perfidious albion’
This tweet from the BBC’s Europe correspondent provides another possible reason for Johnson’s Internal Market Bill: Katya Adler@BBCkatyaadler Opinion amongst EU diplomats is broadly that IF PM is talking about EU threatening integrity of UK endangering peace in NIreland etc IN ORDER to eventually sell idea to Tory party that doing a trade deal with… Read more
The Salisbury Convention
Following on from my previous piece, a friend has advised me that the Lords are constitutionally incapable of rejecting a manifesto commitment. As indeed they are, under the so-called Salisbury Convention. (Goodness knows why the government should object to the Lords rejecting a bill when they themselves think they should be able, without problem, not… Read more