Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 12:09:06 GMT
At some point, god knows exactly when, our politics will revert back to domestic policy.
At that point let's hope we can have an informed debate on what policies we want to prioritise and the funding thereof.
At that point perhaps we can reflect on the social impacts the hard line, ideological, austerity policies imposed by the Tories.
We might then also reflect on to what degree the Leave vote was driven by these social impacts.
If we remove the lunatic fringes who hijack the debate for their own nasty ends, then this comes into sharp focus.
This will then invariably come down to money and funding. The basic essence of the pro austerity ideologues was the budget deficit and the growing Soveriegn debt. Many of us argued at the 2010 election that proposed policies of the Tories were fundamentally, economically, wrong.
We quoted John Maynard Keynes, we referred to Ben Bernanke's book on the great economic crash between the wars.
Today we sit on a debt pile double that of 2007/8.
The results of those austerity policies are there for all to see.
So, as a General Election looms.
Are we to vote on an informed basis?
On debt, as a reaffirmation of the arguments made for government intervention when private sector demand collapses, this a recent paper from the former chief economist at the IMF.
Have we been misled over the importance of government debt?
flip.it/xvhb1w
At that point let's hope we can have an informed debate on what policies we want to prioritise and the funding thereof.
At that point perhaps we can reflect on the social impacts the hard line, ideological, austerity policies imposed by the Tories.
We might then also reflect on to what degree the Leave vote was driven by these social impacts.
If we remove the lunatic fringes who hijack the debate for their own nasty ends, then this comes into sharp focus.
This will then invariably come down to money and funding. The basic essence of the pro austerity ideologues was the budget deficit and the growing Soveriegn debt. Many of us argued at the 2010 election that proposed policies of the Tories were fundamentally, economically, wrong.
We quoted John Maynard Keynes, we referred to Ben Bernanke's book on the great economic crash between the wars.
Today we sit on a debt pile double that of 2007/8.
The results of those austerity policies are there for all to see.
So, as a General Election looms.
Are we to vote on an informed basis?
On debt, as a reaffirmation of the arguments made for government intervention when private sector demand collapses, this a recent paper from the former chief economist at the IMF.
Have we been misled over the importance of government debt?
flip.it/xvhb1w
