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Corbynomics Again
I meant to write a piece on why the macro-economics in Labour's Manifesto and the coherence of the 10 pledges were a compelling reason to vote Labour but ran out of time. Here's some links to help you & me.
To Jeremy Corbyn, an apologyRoughly a year ago I write an article in the Guardian criticising Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership of the Labour Party. I was deeply disappointed by his team's Brexit campaign. What I had seen was, I thought, shambolic from press relations onwards. Policy was not forthcoming. I had lost confidence.
Corbynomics can work – once you know that economics is never ‘neutral’Neil Faulkner argues that the biggest barrier to Jeremy Corbyn's rational economic policy is the huge profits the super-rich are making from an irrational one
British Labour has to break out of the neo-liberal ‘cost’ framing trapThe other day I read a report in the UK Guardian (April 6, 2017) – Jeremy Corbyn: add VAT to private education fees to fund school meals – which appeared to signal that the world has go…- Richard wrote this in 2016, it's much of this for which he issued the apology, although much of what he says on the economics is and remains correct. They had dropped PQE and McDonnell's variation on the "Fiscal Charter" makes no more sense than Osbourne's.
- The rise and fall of Corbyn’s economicsI was intrigued by this tweet on my timeline yesterday: I do not know Jos Bell. I do know Danny and Ann and I have spoken to both recently but what I am saying here is purely personal. What I felt was a need to reply in more than 14o characters to...
- I was pointed at the wayback machine's copy of the original document and put it on my Wiki.
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CorbynomicsJeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015 and published an economic manifesto called the The Economy in 2020. This disappeared from Jeremy's site at some point. Richard Murphy pointed me at the wayback machine copy, and I have also posted it to this site as a mirror.- In 2015, the election hung on Economic Credibility vs. the Long Term Economic Plan, the deficit and national debt was the all encompassing issue. How times change? Economists and history are united, austerity can't resolve a deficit and debt problem, only economic growth can do that and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership has been about challenging the Tory orthodoxy, one still supported by some of the scions of New Labour.
- Here's the 10 pledges, it's at the Labour Party site and so will be shit canned at some point. (Note to self, that's what diigo's for.)
Labour's 10 pledges to rebuild and transform BritainFind out how we will build a Britain that works for all of us.
