Labour’s response on dealing with the economics of Covid-19 has been rather insipid to date. Beyond criticising the Chancellor for a one-size-fits-all approach there’s no big new ideas coming from Anneliese Dodds. One would hope she would be consulting widely at this time, but her office responded with the predictable “thank you but Anneliese can […]
Nick Wilkins
The grip of concepts
So, furlough payments have been extended in the UK but it’s clear the language is changing. We are now being encouraged back to work not because it is now any more safe (forget “R”, more people infected in aggregate means greater risk of catching the disease), but because they cannot afford to maintain the current […]
Covid-19
The current health crisis is occupying so much of the current bandwidth of government worldwide that insufficient attention is being paid to the economic tsunami that is following in its wake. Radical measures are required, and it has been heartening to see that some of the necessary policy has been enacted by finance ministers across […]
Campaign launch
We are now inviting all interested parties to contribute to this campaign with your impressions and comments. We would be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to work with us to put some more flesh on these proposals. I see the process going something like this:- 1) Sanity check the basic ideas by […]