{"id":5586,"date":"2021-02-19T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:45:27","slug":"starmer-a-new-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/starmer-a-new-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer, a new chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote\/am writing a blog, on Starmer&#8217;s &#8220;New Chapter&#8221; speech which led me to source some facts and opinions. Here are my notes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Useful Links<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/labour.org.uk\/press\/full-text-of-keir-starmer-speech-on-a-new-chapter-for-britain\/\">Speech text<\/a>, on Labour&#8217;s press site, the <a href=\"https:\/\/labour.org.uk\/press\/starmer-sets-out-plan-to-give-british-people-a-stake-in-our-national-recovery\/\">press release<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/labour.org.uk\/a-new-chapter\/\">Labour&#8217;s web page<\/a>, inc. video link.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/burying-corbynism.html\">Burying Corbynism<\/a> by Phil BC, don&#8217;t forget the new core<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/economy\/2021\/02\/why-condemning-austerity-won-t-be-enough-restore-labour-power\">Why condemning austerity won&#8217;t be enough to restore Labour to power<\/a> by James Meadway<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/economy\/2021\/02\/keir-starmer-has-economic-policy-what-he-doesnt-have-strategy\">Keir Starmer has economic policy what he doesn&#8217;t have is strategy<\/a> by Stephen Bush, well titled, not really a move from Corbyn\/McDonnel, last half sentence, &#8220;the worrying part of Starmer\u2019s speech: it\u2019s not that it\u2019s unclear how he plans to tackle Labour\u2019s economic credibility problem. It\u2019s that it is unclear that there is a way to tackle Labour\u2019s economic credibility problem.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/economy\/2021\/02\/why-labour-must-follow-joe-biden-s-example-and-advocate-radical-economic\">Why Labour must follow Joe Biden\u2019s example and advocate a radical economic alternative<\/a> by Paul Mason by which he means spend a shit load.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/keir-starmer-speech-john-mcdonnell-anti-austerity-speech-bolder-ed-miliband-877634\">Keir Starmer is no John McDonnell, but his anti-austerity speech was bolder than Ed Miliband ever managed<\/a>, by Andrew Fisher, also, &#8220;&#8230; modest proposals [on Universal Credit] on which government U-turns might be expected. What was missing beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/politics\/sir-keir-starmer-speech-labour-leader-statement-british-recovery-bond-covid-uk-public-877552\">the ill-defined \u2018British Recovery Bonds\u2019<\/a> \u2013 a new savings bond to allow the public to invest in Covid recovery \u2013 was the sort of Biden-style stimulus package seen in the US (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippr.org\/files\/2021-02\/ippr-boost-it-like-biden-paper-2-21.pdf\">backed recently by think tank IPPR<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/16\/keir-starmer-leadership-urgent-course-correction-labour\">Keir Starmer&#8217;s leadership needs an urgent course correction<\/a>, by Tom Kibasi in the Guardian<\/li>\n<li>Ian Dunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/week-in-review\/2021\/02\/19\/week-in-review-ignore-the-noise\/?cmpredirect\">thinks<\/a> that the Tories will return to slash and burn austerity and that Starmer&#8217;s position is of opposing austerity and puts him in the right place. Personally not so sure, only if you think Corbyn&#8217;s internal opposition delegitimised the Party&#8217;s position.<\/li>\n<li>On oratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/where-have-all-the-orators-gone\/\">Where have all the orators gone?<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/the-35-greatest-speeches-in-history\/\">The 35 greatest speeches in history\/<\/a>, from the worryingly named &#8220;art of manliness&#8221; which has its own controversies, I was llooking for some source material on the &#8216;modest man&#8217; quote.<\/li>\n<li>Google on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=schumpeter+creative+destruction\">schumpeter creative destruction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=ftse+100\">FTSE 100<\/a>, by Google<\/li>\n<li>ONS page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/nationalaccounts\/uksectoraccounts\/bulletins\/capitalstocksconsumptionoffixedcapital\/2020\">Capital Formation<\/a>\u00a0and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/grossdomesticproductgdp\/bulletins\/gdpfirstquarterlyestimateuk\/octobertodecember2020\">Q4 2020 GDP Growth<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Statista on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210813103535\/https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/270381\/national-debt-of-the-united-kingdom-in-relation-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp\/\">National Debt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2017\/08\/23\/modest\/\">https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2017\/08\/23\/modest\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote\/am writing a blog, on Starmer&#8217;s &#8220;New Chapter&#8221; speech which led me to source some facts and opinions. 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