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The NHS is unsafe in Conservative hands
This is the Coventry South MP, Zarah Sultana’s withering take: We might care to think too that since the Conservatives have come to power – and prior to Covid there are/were: 100,000 fewer doctors & nurses 17,000 fewer hospital beds 100 fewer A&E facilities Hospital waiting lists have doubled. That is a litany of the… Read more
Does this seem currently rather appropriate?
This was of course a trailer from the Corbyn era prior to the lost election. In my view, then as now, it is still a sentiment that is entirely appropriate. Perhaps Conservative techniques are still working and invoking identity politics will keep us opposing each other rather than the real problem. Or, actually, we need… Read more
Police Bill and power
Rebecca Long-Bailey gives two and a half minutes or so of heartfelt opposition to the Police Bill now going through Parliament – amazingly without a single Conservative MP voting against. This Bill not only infringes everyone’s right to free expression, it neatly entails the everyday politicisation of the Police, which as we have seen during… Read more
Don’t say that Milton Keynes is humourless…
Lovely – from ‘Private Eye’, I think…… Read more
A use for Johnson’s speeches?
Apparently Johnson’s speech to the Conservative Party conference on Tuesday was a full 25 minutes of puffery. Someone has found a use for a shorter version:… 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
MMT – technique exposes purpose
Thinking about the two recent reviews of The Deficit Myth, I am coming to the view that these rather lightweight critiques are simply designed to sow seeds of doubt in readers minds. But there is no very serious argument against the facts of the case. When Jessop says that if something seems too good to… Read more
Eye test in progress…
Can government afford debts? Try credit creation
“All money is debt” says Ann Pettifor in an interesting talk with Paul Mason and Molly Scott-Cato, economists all, on XRTV. And yes the XR is the XR we know – and mostly love. I have to say I think Gail Bradbrook, even if she may not consider this her core skill, does a much… Read more