{"id":15444,"date":"2019-11-12T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15444"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:04:24","slug":"election-2019-turn-left-to-power-from-99p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15444","title":{"rendered":"Election 2019: TURN LEFT TO POWER: From .99p"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As many regular readers know I am a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, I became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 I published my idea\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dynamic-Quantitative-Easing-Idea-Growth\/dp\/1507812256\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dynamic+Quantitative+Easing&amp;qid=1573554676&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">Dynamic Quantitative Easing<\/a><\/span>, which aroused some interest in high places. This forms a core element of <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turn Left To Power<\/span>,<\/em> a powerful and compact analysis of Labour\u2019s opportunity to regain power, published in 2016, before the leftward swing of the political conversation had become established. The idea then persisted that government from the centre, which had become a stale quagmire bereft of new ideas, was best.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Frank and at a times brutal, <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Turn Left To Power<\/em><\/span> offers a collection of fundamental reforms which amount to a political revolution. By all accounts much of it will be similar to Labour&#8217;s 2019 Manifesto. But you may find the reasoning and analysis in my little book absorbing and if you are an activist, helpful in your campaigning. I am dismayed by the unfairness of the current economic model, but driven by the hope of a better future for the rising generation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Turn Left To Power: A Road Map For Labour\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1140\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.co.uk\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_U6WB33op43kpS6&#038;asin=1533159769&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many regular readers know I am a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, I became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 I published my idea\u00a0 Dynamic Quantitative Easing, which aroused some interest in high places. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4],"class_list":["post-15444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15452,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions\/15452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}