This makes me feel sick.

We know, for certain, right now that the Bank of England tries to maintain a certain level of unemployment to manage inflation.

Add to this a policy of removing all benefits after a year out of work.

The only thing this can lead to - Mass destitution.

Here is a post from someone who desperately wants people to know that taxpayers money is used to pay for things.

He says:

- money gets its value from tax.
- So, therefore its the taxpayer who ultimately paid.

I struggle to find the logic connecting the two.

Just finished reading Stephanie Kelton's 'The Deficit myth' about modern monetary theory and government budgets. Mind bending.
Consequently, all the Tory-Labour mewling about 'fully costed budgets' and 'paying for services' mostly sounds like bullshit performative politics. #MMT

The UK is a currency issuing state. The concept of ‘affordability’ is meaningless - our Govt can afford anything priced in £s - including state pensions at any price. When anyone claims the state cannot afford something - they are either lying or do not understand fiat economies.

Eric Tymoigne 'MMT IS PRINTING MONEY'....

No, under the current framework, every $ spent is balanced by tax and bond sales (so no money printing?)

This is entirely compatible with MMT, and puts no fiscal constraints on the government.

It is rather silly to accuse Independent candidates of being Tory enablers. The Labour Party has fully morphed into the Tory party. Labour is no more. A vote for ‘Starmer’s’ party is now quite clearly a vote for Tory policies with all the misery that will continue to bring us.

A lie? Perhaps?

But, if true the nurse was taken in by 'your tax funds spending' , and better services will mean *less* money in our pockets.

Millions of people actually believe this, and will vote Tory to, so they believe, pay less tax.

It doesn't work that way.

Keith Weiner The Venn diagram intersection of critics of MMT and climate change deniers is a very crowded place. Best avoided by those wishing to hold intelligent conversations.

A decent man, quite possibly - but a man as guilty as Howe, Osborne and Hunt of corruption of UK monetary operations. He continues to pretend that our currency issuing state needs to raise the money they create out of thin air - from us. Charlatans - all of them.

Look at the state of this. Our state broadcaster is pushing a lie that the government has no choice other than to reduce pensions or increase pension age.

Thankfully there are many replies that put the record straight. But we really need a celeb to call it out. Carol Vorderman ?

Garbage

Why cant you divide by zero?

Like you cant do square root of a negative either...except you can - complex numbers.

So why cant you define 1/0 = as q, then use q whenever 1/0 appears in an equation?

Fudmottin ?

No, Carol.
The poll predicts the tories will have 566 seats.
Its simple addition.