Richard Murphy
@RichardJMurphy
Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
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http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog 23-01-2008 10:47:19
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The SNP needs leaders who do not embrace neoliberalism taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… The new SNP leadership's dedication to profoundly conventional, neoliberal, thinking would be a major cause of concern for anyone who wants that country to move towards independence - because that…
Richard Murphy Currently 🏴is short of 8000 GPs yet there are unemployed GPs
20% cut in GP Practice funding £/patient since 2016
Average 2016~£153 now £165/patient/year covering all services
2024 just a 2% ‘increase’ £3/patient
GPs leaving, unemployed, Practices closing, patients losing out
Would you like to see your GP, or know that the government is restricting your access using cast-iron fiscal rules? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… Thousands of former NHS GPs are now unemployed because the government says it cannot afford to pay them. Meanwhile, there is a massive…
Labour Party? Pull the other one…. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… It's Workers Day, and so news has leaked that Labour is planning to backtrack on its plans to reinforce worker's rights. Labour's aim is to appease the business community. This really is now a Labour Party In Name Only…
The US is tottering on the brink of becoming a fascist state taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/0… Trump has been fined for being in contempt of court, but that is his plan. He wants to bring US courts under his direct control, ending any veneer of democracy. Is the world ready for a fascist…
The mess that the SNP is in might be an opportunity for the independence movement to get its act together, but it might take time for that to become apparent taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/3… The Scottish independence cause was always going to be a long game. The SNP’s problems, as it…
Nationalising Thames Water will not in any way threaten the stability of UK financial markets taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… Treasury sourced rumours that financial markets that nationalising Thames Water might cause massive upset in UK financial markets are deliberate misinformation…
It really is time that politicians took note of modern monetary theory taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/2… Modern monetary theory is the only credible alternative economic theory challenging the neoliberal consensus right now. When that neoliberal consensus has so obviously failed, why…