Economics was never meant to be about the destruction of scarce resources, but that’s what it has become. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/10/2… Economics is supposedly a study of how we allocate scarce resources within our society. There is, however, a problem with that definition. That comes

Sucking the dregs out of a broken system of their own, greedy, making. We want OUR water back.

Here's the thing... Reeves doesn't have to borrow £s for her investment. The City spivs want her to, cos that's one way they can make a turn. A sovereign currency issuer, as Keynes famously stated, can afford whatever it can do. Finding the money is never the issue. A 🧵

G.O.A.L – a government owned allocation lever taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/10/2… Building a new narrative, in action

Angus makes a very good point about economic planning. It's mainly guesswork. Especially for a small nation like Scotland that will be bashed and pushed by strong global issues. Need to focus on key goals and guiding principles. And not made up numbers.

What did not happen in the Budget taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/10/3… It‘s always best to view a Budget in terms of what it does not do, instead of looking at what it does claim to deliver. That way you really understand what the Chancellor thinks is unimportant. Doing so it is very apparent

Austerity in 🇩🇪1930-1932 and the rise of the Nazi party: "austerity reduced German GDP by more than four percent and caused an increase in unemployment by almost two million, paving the way for the success of extremist parties."

It is not to secure the system or improve wellbeing. It is a way to use government funding to ensure that no matter what money is spent on, the wealthy will ALWAYS BE ABLE TO WET THEIR BEAKS. 6/9

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Badenoch is arrogantly contemptuous of almost all people, but most especially those already vulnerable taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11/0… One of Kemi Badenoch’s stated goals during her campaign to be Tory leader was to take on those with mental ill health and neuro-divergence so that she

I’m seeing people talk about the worldwide trend of countries moving right, and I think that has to be largely understood as the failure of neoliberalism. As liberal parties move right they stop delivering for people and find themselves in political no mans land.

Maybe over-optimistic but we need to take some sort of hope from this:

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins As told by the late great David Graeber

1/5 Trump's victory shows the authoritarian right can win even with rising GDP and supposedly 'good' economic figures. We must do three things if we don't want them to win here.

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Hey guess what, they fixed twitter: Joe Carver.bsky.social

Branching out

Hope this year you have the wind in your hair

Scotland's greatest filmmaker, Bill Douglas