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Why don’t The Labour Party actually listen to people like Mr Blanchflower. We don’t need any more austerity, we need hope.

This is an absurd lie that drives fear and hatred

We know austerity doesn't work, so why are Keir Starmer and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, repeating a failed Tory experiment?

Pretty sad that Keir Starmer seems unable to give any hope for Britain’s future. What is the point? Why not just focus on fixing nhs child poverty and cleaning up the water and getting enough gps that people can see a doctor and enough mental health folks to deal with the

⁦Rachel Reeves⁩ We can restore economic stability rebuild our public services boost living standards unlock growth, spread prosperity and make every part of our country better off. So why you going to slash & burn exactly which will do the opposite theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Amazing that Rachel Reeves seems to not care about improving the wellbeing of children……and is set to make it worse How is that making things better?

Labour’s claiming the economy could have crashed if winter fuel payments for pensioners weren't cut. This is absurd. They might as well have claimed the markets would have crashed if Rachel Reeves had walked on the cracks in the pavement. The claim really is that stupid.

MMT for Progressives Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman Rachel Reeves Fair enough. See his interview with Owen Jones. I think, LIKE MANY , his judgement was affected by his desperation to get the Tories out. He is now pushing for the progressive policies he had thought Labour had lined up and ready to go and i‘d have thought you would favour.

The Labour Govt & Rachel Reeves have boxed themselves in on tax & & embraced the failed economic orthodoxies of the past 40 years. Going even further Lucy Powell shows her economic illiteracy saying honouring the pensioner winter fuel payment could have crashed the economy.

A country with its own currency and central bank and an ability to borrow from the markets cheaply is not a household Financial ‘black holes’ can be paid for over the next 100 years by issuing undated consols….just as they did in the Napoleonic War

Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman MMT for Progressives Andy #ClimateEmergency Rachel Reeves James Meadway I wouldn't target debt to GDP (or its change) in the first place, but if you are going to look at a debt measure its best to use one that is not distorted by winding down QE.

Interview with me on Freakonomics coming 11 september……

A wise bit of advice for the Anti vaccine crowd.

Just so @uklabour understands the effects of austerity estimates I believe are that it caused 300000 excess deaths Austerity killed poor people

my guardian column on austerity and why it is a terrible idea Richard Murphy agrees... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Nice pike today ….