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 […]
This Blog has some sympathy for central bankers generally. They are non-political yet they have to carry out political orders and deal with financial consequences of political mistakes and miscalculations. Most of them know that the current structure of free market globalization is failing ordinary people and is therefore in decline. In the UK, in […]
Jeremy Corbyn has the overwhelming backing of Labour Party members and is winning back the millions of votes lost to Labour since it abandoned the working classes and re-invented itself as a Social Democratic party of the centre left. When the Tories were undetectable it gained power and held onto it, but when the Tories recovered their equilibrium, they […]
QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with recent market turmoil. Dynamic Quantitative Easing (also called Peoples Quantitative Easing) remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports and enable sustained growth […]
WAYS FORWARD will be a new Series which examines ideas to bring the UK through the self imposed hazard of leaving the EU and will focus on the very real changes demanded by the magnitude of that decision. It will not explore the reasons for, or wisdom of, the decision itself, which this Blog opposed, but accept it […]
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 […]
The political theatre continues in full swing. Keen audiences, mostly the Westminster village, find it thrilling. Meanwhile there is a sense of drift in a county without either a functioning government or opposition. Perhaps Chilcot will liven things up on Wednesday. It may not be a good day for Blair. Meanwhile Farage, having achieved his […]
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 […]
Maybe. In today’s political hothouse anything can happen. But the truth is the plotters appear to have miscalculated. They do not have a candidate who stands a chance in a leadership election against Corbyn and he is not going. Last week sixty thousand people rushed to join the party and the whisper is most if not […]
QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with recent market turmoil. Dynamic Quantitative Easing (also called Peoples Quantitative Easing) remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports and enable sustained growth […]