It needs a national economic and environmental strategy, such as those that guide China and Singapore. In fact, Reeves should create a Department for National Strategy to lead public green infrastructure investment that will revive private investment in a weakened, risk-averse economy.
Labour should transfer that role to a new Inflation Control Office, which could use taxes, price controls and even rationing to lower inflation.
Price controls! Rationing!
East Berlin circa 1957 or so, no?
If we’re not careful, the British people will lose the confidence of the government…
But the government has already lost the confidence of you Brits!!!
It looks like it already has. After all, the government is currently in the process of replacing the people with another.
Then a new people must be elected.
And here’s one I made earlier (or rather imported)
That’s an absolute cracker of an article. Harris saying there is no single solution but actually we just need loads more social housing. Pettifor going full on green commie and the lawyer telling us diversity is our strength and we need more activist lawyers.
It’s like a parallel universe (or Islington).
Weird thing is, they must know people – perhaps even family members – who have fallen victim in a deadly way to the vibrancy. I constantly have to remind myself that nothing stands in the way of the project for these fuckers.
Do they? Aren’t the victims usually the lower orders? I thought the elite generally managed to isolate themselves from such problems.
Usually, but that’s a numbers thing. There’s no magic cloaking device that shields people living in Islington from harm if they happen to be related to or friendly with a senior civil servant, judge, politician etc.
And…
OR, we could cancel and disband a government department every week until the economy works for the people. And repeal say a hundred regulations a day, picked at random just to see what happens.
Since I’m retired, I’d argue that this’d be a good idea for Oz as well.
Makes sense. After all, they’re already putting new regulations in place “just to see what happens” They certainly don’t do any work on figuring out what will actually happen.
I am (just) old enough to remember rationing. I went to my favourite ice cream shop and, for the first time, asked for sweeties. I was refused.
That must have been because sweeties were rationed and ice cream wasn’t.
My memory is patchy; I remember almost nothing from early childhood. But there you are: I remember Socialism!
I remember when that Hovis advert came on the telly – ‘we went down t’ shops just after t’ War, etc.’
Mum used to shout at the telly every time that rationing went on into the 50s… 🙂
And bread rationing only came in *AFTER* the war.
Wasn’t post-war rationing something to do with our American ‘allies’ financially holding our toes to the flames, leaving Attlee with no choice but to raise British children on a diet of sugar and dripping?
Give her some credit for bringing up rationing – normally the commies pretend that it’ll be rainbows & skittles all around. Might be the first time since Churchill (blood, toil, tears and sweat) any politician admitted that, hey, there might be a cost to all this.
I was under the impression that the government was supposed to design and follow a national strategy for just about everything
What is the meaning of “inflation” if you aren’t allowed to buy the goods that make up the CPI?
I think the problem with your last sentence is its accuracy Tim. They absolutely want something similar to East Germany in 1957. With them
As the nomenklatura. Certainly everything I have seen suggests Asset controls will be back in by 2029. These people are a type of evil that I’ve seldom seen. All of them need removing from
Public life.
Gamecock assumes China’s environmental strategy is on a single page. Double spaced. Huge font.
What’s Chinese for FUKE THAT?