Comments on: When it comes to the big economic questions, Leave and Remain voters aren’t as divided as you think

By: Lite blue

Lite blue — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:38:26 +0000

…and why on bright sunlit days with floor to ceiling windows do supermarkets have the lights on?…

By: wg

wg — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 07:29:26 +0000

And there’s your problem in a nutshell.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation and UK in a Changing Europe – who the hell are they?
Next week it’ll be the Fabians, or Progress, or the IPPR – do politicians ever speak to real people now?
Who pays for them? Who’s elected them? In who’s interest do they work?

Whether it be Demos, Davos, Soros etc. – we need them to butt out of our democracy.

By: Barry Edwards

Barry Edwards — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:01:56 +0000

One of the major problems is that our economy is seriously geographically unbalanced with not only the financial and commercial sector concentrated in London, but also all the central government political activity.

We can have incentives to encourage companies to relocate but the experience with the BBC and Channel 4 suggests they are reluctant and it takes time.

John McDonnell has proposed part of the Treasury to the north of England but I would suggest that this is far too timid an idea. I propose moving our political capital lock, stock and barrel away from London to the north of England.

With the Houses of Parliament crumbling away this is the time to build a state of the art parliament building, probably somewhere centrally place like south Yorkshire and Ministries spread out around the north – all connected by fast transport links and communications.

This would reinvigorate the north and stop the overheating of the south-east. It would give MPs the same benefits that are currently enjoyed by MSPs and Welsh AMs. The Houses of Parliament could become a museum, a hotel or even William Morris’s dung warehouse.

By: nhsgp

nhsgp — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:50:03 +0000

Simple problem you ignore.

220 bn a year going on the state debts.

You even have to tax min wage earners to pay that

How does a min wage earner pay his fair share of the state’s debt mountain? £450,000 plus interest.

Hence you get austerity. Debt causes the austerity. Simple question proves it. Would 220 bn a year in spending or tax cuts fix austerity? Of course it would