That crazy bastard might be the only sane one left.
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There is an interesting economic history to be written in due course on big companies embracing regulation over the 2000s and 2010s on the assumption that it will benefit them, as it had before, by regulatory capture and protecting their business models from new competition or be see as responsible and favourable by government only to have their business models nearly destroyed regardless. Housing industry in particular has been complacent about regulatory change, but also supermarkets and retailers have been so passive up until quite recently.
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Britain has a reverse lobbying problem. Businesses struggle to have any useful influence or input on policy, leading to growth killing jobs and energy taxes. But the big NGO sector is *paid* by the state to lobby the state.
EXCLUSIVE: Charities that called for Mahmood's immigration U-turn received more than £1billion in taxpayers' cash
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British politics is fundamentally out of joint because in 2015-2022 bipartisan governing-class social media purity spirals on immigration / climate / disability led to unsustainably left-wing policies being introduced by Conservative governments, which Labour now must reverse - but cannot face doing so
The replies to this a real blackpill on levels of reading comprehension in the average cricket fan.
Every time I see a clip posted supposedly showing evidence of Trump’s senility it’s just him doing a bit.
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Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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Although the dysfunction started earlier than that, much becomes explicable if you look at our politics through the lens of a transition from a contest between the Businessman's Party and the Shop Floor Party to one between the Pensioners' Party and the Third Sector Party.
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There's something almost touchingly naive about businessmen who vote Labour and earnestly explain the problems of NI and high NMW as if trying to explain oneself to a foreign waiter, the party will eventually see reason.
The thing that is 'utterly heartbreaking' here is that this businessman actually thought that because Burnham - a demonstrably shallow man who's been a socialist parasite his entire working life - is a fellow Northerner, he would 'get it'. That is the tragedy of Britain, captured right there. Moronic class consciousness as a substitute for rational thought.
Rarely seen a better illustration of “eventually you run out of other people’s money”.
‘John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space?’
Business owner Paul Bowen has criticised the Chancellor’s promise to give ‘breathing space’ through measures in his Budget.
#budget #businesses #costofliving
Good for you, Martin. Now when the economy continues to slough into the sewer we can apportion you your share of the blame.
"I had a list of seven or eight things that I suggested to the Chancellor and I've been pretty gobsmacked that five of them were in the budget."
Martin Lewis, Founder of Money Saving Expert, reacts to Chancellor John Healey's first budget.
#Newsnight
