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That’s not fair!
This is the cry of most children as soon as they begin to think for themselves – so I think we can conclude that fairness is not innate but derives from an inadequate conclusion to some sort of conflict situation. It follows, I think, that fairness is required in society in order to resolve and… Read more
Hollowing out localism and also democracy
I had no idea that local government used to provide so much and that this provision was so generally accepted and widespread. Just consider what local government used to provide and which has since been hollowed out to go to state industries and now, as we all know, those state industries have been hollowed out… Read more
‘Crowding’ in – and out
Contemplating the necessity of additional state expenditure forcefully suggested in the video in the previous post and thinking again in simple conventional economic terms, Will Hutton has pointed out in his new book ‘This Time No Mistakes’ that the additional state spending, such as that proposed by Prem Sikka, would serve to ‘crowd-in’ private expenditure… Read more
The state has become a killing machine…
…Which is how this twelve minutes of fighting talk from Lord Prem Sikka concludes: This is all excellent stuff in my view – and although he mentions Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in passing, he doesn’t use it in his arguments preferring just to point out all the unused tax possibilities that there are. Now I’m… Read more
Modern Political Parties are Cartels
This is excellent from journalist and self-styled ‘Moet Marxist’, Grace Blakeley: Have to say that I much agree. The Labour Party is, I fear, since Corbyn, certainly not democratic and when you look at the people that Labour are ‘consulting’ on their policies, it really does look as though they are asking the people with… Read more
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