Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and deep thinking, the narrative will grip you like a thriller and open your eyes to a brighter, fairer future in a mere 25000 words. The ideas are relevant whether Brexit goes In or Out.

Malcolm Blair-Robinson, writer and blogger,  has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, he became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 he published his idea of Dynamic Quantitative Easing which aroused interest in high places and this forms a core element of this powerful and compact analysis of Labour’s opportunity to regain power.

Frank and at a times brutal, Turn Left To Power offers a collection of fundamental reforms which amount to a political revolution. He is dismayed by the unfairness of the current economic model and is driven by the hope of a better future for the rising generation.

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There is passion and emotion in the Leave campaign but very little else. The economics are a fantasy and I think they know this. They hope a few catchy promises like bottles of watery Elixir sold by con men from the backs of wagons in the Wild West will be enough to convince the level headed. Probably not. Which is why they major on immigration. Fear and prejudice are the best friends of empty politics.

Now that the line up of economists, financial institutions, friendly nations, economic think tanks, international economic bodies of all kinds and almost everything with some capacity to think in numbers from the kindergarten upwards, warn of the costs of Brexit, the absence of any planning or ideas of how to take advantage of the new freedom if it is chosen, may well be the determining factor if it isn’t. The fallback cries of Leave are that it is the elite who want to stay and that they were wrong about the Euro.

First I had not previously recognised Gove, Boris and their friends as underclass, but this referendum experience is a learning curve. Second if we had gone into the Euro we would have enjoyed an economic rejuvenation like Germany, we would have trade  and budget surpluses,  we would be saving the equivalent of £30 billion per year now spent on housing and low wage benefits, we would not have excessive housing costs or house price inflation and, like Germany, we would be a considerably healthier economic power than is now the case. So it depends what you mean by wrong.