Conservatism
Nationalised rail – but don’t mention the banks
It is not often I link to the Morning Star – which is now a journalist’s co-operative rather than a USSR tool! They are spot on about the alleged rail nationalisation from Labour – it completely leaves out the rail leasing companies – operated by banks, usually using ‘tax efficient’ offshore operations… They state: It’s... Read more
Colonialists still rule us all…
Apparently David Marquand died yesterday. He wrote this with which I entirely concur… The evisceration and anti – democratic suppression of local authorities continues apace and although most of us object, the Tories in Devon, for example, entirely agree…... Read more
Incapacity to empathise…
I thought this was clever and cogent: Sunak, like so many top Tories, has hardly ever worked. He has just gambled successfully….... Read more
The constitutional shame of the Rwanda Bill
The irony of lifting a video from ‘Best for Britain’ is all too apparent. But then the utter stupidity of the Rwanda scheme rather deserves it. It is beyond me how on the one hand Rwanda is completely safe, yet it is supposed to provide a deterrent to supposedly ‘illegal’ immigrants. How, if it is... Read more
I’d rather be French…
This vox pop is an indictment of 14 painful years of Conservative government: So that youth can get some of its future back let us hope that Labour will feel confident enough to properly embrace what looks like the incipient reinstigation of free movement for the young – led by the European Commission! That would... 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
Brexit shows that all countries are better off within the European Union – who knew?
This FT half hour film itemises and demonstrates what a disaster Brexit is. Not only for trade and industry but also for simple collaborative relations. And even, at the end of the piece, as Martin Wolf suggests, for democracy… Rather similarly, Geert Wilders has publicly abandoned the policy of the Netherlands leaving the EU saying.... Read more