The right is increasingly unhappy over what it regards as unnecessary airtime given to left-wing economists calling for higher taxes, and demanding there is no return to austerity.
Recent guests in the prime business slots have included Richard Murphy, a professor at Sheffield University who has called for interest rate cuts and higher borrowing to fund public services in the teeth of the recession.
Andrew C
Spud must be loving the current situation. The economy is in a mess and like any snake-oil salesman he is suggesting that there are easy answers that will cause no pain and have no consequences.
That the policies he endorsed in the past and wanted more of like lockdown and printing money are primary causes of the mess we are in is quietly forgotten and the inevitable shambles that would result if we put into practice what he proposes is simply ignored.
bloke in spain
“I guess the Potato was preening himself when the Telegraph singled him out today, ”
Not if he read the comment I stuck under it. Don’t know about now, but it had 15 likes 10 minutes after it was posted.
bloke in spain
And yes, the Ashcroft libel was mentioned.
Bloke in North Dorset
There was a great comment on Twatter in a Chris Snowden thread about Spud:
I imagine him sitting at his kitchen table pretending it’s his cabinet meeting and his teddy is the chancellor.
I guess the Potato was preening himself when the Telegraph singled him out today, especially as it implies he is an economist.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/11/03/how-bbcs-economics-journalism-came-attack/
The right is increasingly unhappy over what it regards as unnecessary airtime given to left-wing economists calling for higher taxes, and demanding there is no return to austerity.
Recent guests in the prime business slots have included Richard Murphy, a professor at Sheffield University who has called for interest rate cuts and higher borrowing to fund public services in the teeth of the recession.
Spud must be loving the current situation. The economy is in a mess and like any snake-oil salesman he is suggesting that there are easy answers that will cause no pain and have no consequences.
That the policies he endorsed in the past and wanted more of like lockdown and printing money are primary causes of the mess we are in is quietly forgotten and the inevitable shambles that would result if we put into practice what he proposes is simply ignored.
“I guess the Potato was preening himself when the Telegraph singled him out today, ”
Not if he read the comment I stuck under it. Don’t know about now, but it had 15 likes 10 minutes after it was posted.
And yes, the Ashcroft libel was mentioned.
There was a great comment on Twatter in a Chris Snowden thread about Spud:
I imagine him sitting at his kitchen table pretending it’s his cabinet meeting and his teddy is the chancellor.
When the chips are down…