14 years of hollowing out the state, 14 years of under investment in every aspect of our infrastructure, plus brexit. We’ve run out of feet to shoot ourselves in.
It was always bloody obvious that, with Brexshit itself being so ill-defined, letting the nutters and ultras have their way and extract us from the single market was a recipe for disaster - except for some 'sovereign individuals'. It's also bloody obvious that the quickest route to fixing some of our country's economic problems is to rejoin that market as an urgent priority.
Whats interesting to me at the moment, are the conflicting major narratives and our failure to integrate them. There is on the one hand the ever increasing evidence that our degradation of nature, including climate, means that on an ever shortening horizon, we are f****d.
In the other hand, on our immediate horizon is the fact that the old system is not producing the well being we want and, like an old car, we are trying to get it going again.
It seems to me that Labour is fighting the battle of 100 years ago when we should have shifted decisively to an industrial policy to replace laissez-faire. But the economy was both desparate in the poverty of life it produced and a miracle in terms of its productive capacity and we just didn't know enough then what we were dealing with. Its gods were Ricardo and Smith. The left lost the battle again in 1980, and now is fighting it yet again, but just can't get its head around the fact that everything has changed.
The self regulating market is a magic beans formula which permitted the separation of economics from politics. But we still believe that the commodification of "land" (the system term for nature) is appropriate in an age when we are very rapidly destroying it ability to support human life. And yet here we are with investment conferences and seeking to boost "growth." There is a massive disconnect with reality here where concerns about "the environment" and "the economy" remain strangely compartmentalised.
Actually, we are not going to get the UK capitalist economy roaring again. Conceivably it might spring to life and do a few miles, but it will stutter and burp again before long, because it only ever worked when nature provided for its abundance.
Ed may be successful flying kites in the wind, but Co2 is but a symptom of a much more profound issue. The reality is that if we are to survive, the separation of economy and politics must end and we must act collectively. No one wants to face that.
You are describing the out workings of imperialist capitalism. Exclusionary distribution of land to manipulate the bountiful resources of the land into wealth for specific individuals has been the modus operandi of every empire in history. The problem for this Kingdom is they’ve run out of external lands and peoples to extract from (particularly now that the resident UK populace has been bled dry), so they are eating themselves alive trying to maintain this counter intuitive and irrational system.
“Global public debt is forecast to exceed $100tn by the end of this year, according to the IMF, which warned in a report that major economies’ plans to stabilise borrowing “fall far short of what is needed”. From FT JUST SAYING
14 years of hollowing out the state, 14 years of under investment in every aspect of our infrastructure, plus brexit. We’ve run out of feet to shoot ourselves in.
It was always bloody obvious that, with Brexshit itself being so ill-defined, letting the nutters and ultras have their way and extract us from the single market was a recipe for disaster - except for some 'sovereign individuals'. It's also bloody obvious that the quickest route to fixing some of our country's economic problems is to rejoin that market as an urgent priority.
Whats interesting to me at the moment, are the conflicting major narratives and our failure to integrate them. There is on the one hand the ever increasing evidence that our degradation of nature, including climate, means that on an ever shortening horizon, we are f****d.
In the other hand, on our immediate horizon is the fact that the old system is not producing the well being we want and, like an old car, we are trying to get it going again.
It seems to me that Labour is fighting the battle of 100 years ago when we should have shifted decisively to an industrial policy to replace laissez-faire. But the economy was both desparate in the poverty of life it produced and a miracle in terms of its productive capacity and we just didn't know enough then what we were dealing with. Its gods were Ricardo and Smith. The left lost the battle again in 1980, and now is fighting it yet again, but just can't get its head around the fact that everything has changed.
The self regulating market is a magic beans formula which permitted the separation of economics from politics. But we still believe that the commodification of "land" (the system term for nature) is appropriate in an age when we are very rapidly destroying it ability to support human life. And yet here we are with investment conferences and seeking to boost "growth." There is a massive disconnect with reality here where concerns about "the environment" and "the economy" remain strangely compartmentalised.
Actually, we are not going to get the UK capitalist economy roaring again. Conceivably it might spring to life and do a few miles, but it will stutter and burp again before long, because it only ever worked when nature provided for its abundance.
Ed may be successful flying kites in the wind, but Co2 is but a symptom of a much more profound issue. The reality is that if we are to survive, the separation of economy and politics must end and we must act collectively. No one wants to face that.
You are describing the out workings of imperialist capitalism. Exclusionary distribution of land to manipulate the bountiful resources of the land into wealth for specific individuals has been the modus operandi of every empire in history. The problem for this Kingdom is they’ve run out of external lands and peoples to extract from (particularly now that the resident UK populace has been bled dry), so they are eating themselves alive trying to maintain this counter intuitive and irrational system.
“Global public debt is forecast to exceed $100tn by the end of this year, according to the IMF, which warned in a report that major economies’ plans to stabilise borrowing “fall far short of what is needed”. From FT JUST SAYING
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