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Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:50:03 +0000

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By: Patrick Newman

Patrick Newman — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:42:24 +0000

Mr Carey for the sake of completeness just where did you get that figure from. Austerity (i.e. Osborne’s long term economic plan) began in the year 2011 – 2012 local government was handed a 40% reduction in revenue support grant. If correct it is worth asking where the money went because it clearly did not go to health, education, social services, police, prisons, road maintenance. There is the possibility that cuts were counterproductive – budgets can be cut but not always expenditure! Austerity was a political endeavour – not a beancounting exercise!

By: Julia Gibb

Julia Gibb — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:48:51 +0000

@Tom Sacold

I think you were right in your first post.

Does the EU need reform YES!
Is Brexit the answer NO!

With Brexit you deliver a private playground for the rich which is much easier for them to control.
When you are on the same side as Farage, Boris, Trump, Hedge Fund Managers etc etc you need to consider that you may be wrong.

Extreme Wealth comes from having control and the model you support will never deliver change for the better because Brexit has proven that you can buy political control. It has proven that the wealthy have total control of the media.

By: Andrew Carey

Andrew Carey — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:27:18 +0000

But the UK didn’t have austerity. Real terms aggregate government spending per head in the years 2008-2018 was the highest of any 10 year period in history. The claim that government spending was insufficient does not compute.
So this analysis is plain wrong.
The real question is where the extra money went, and why did government spend it so badly and on whom?

By: Tom Sacold

Tom Sacold — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:17:21 +0000

Oops. Correction to the first line.

It seems that my views on the EU are NOT as unusual as some would make out.

By: Tom Sacold

Tom Sacold — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:16:04 +0000

Mmm… It seems that my views on the EU are as unusual as some would make out.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/24/eu-workers-rights-capital-multinationals

“The European project has always made life easier for capital. That’s why multinationals like it so much”

“… All week Labour MPs have been lining up to say that only by staying closely aligned with the EU can the socially progressive rights that Brussels has delivered be protected.

There is one problem with this idea: it is complete nonsense. Britain’s labour market has been reshaped over the past 40 years by deregulation, privatisation and anti-trade union laws, not by the limited protections delivered by the EU, which are weaker in practice than they sound in principle. There was, for example, nothing in the draconian Trade Union Act 2016 that would have run counter to EU law, not even the clause – eventually dropped as the legislation passed through parliament – that picket supervisors would have to give their name to the police.

This should not come as a surprise, because from its earliest days the overriding principle behind the European project has been to make life easier for capital, which is why multinational corporations like it so much. While the pro-employer bias has been there since the Treaty of Rome in 1957 it has become more pronounced in recent years as the slowdown in growth, entrenched high unemployment and the crisis in the eurozone have prompted calls for European labour markets to become more “flexible”.
… ”

And there’s plenty more. Read the article

Yep. The EU is indeed a captialist club.

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