I recently took part in a discussion on my economic thinking with leading LibDems. The result was this podcast episode.
The link is to Spotify. I am told it is available on all the regular podcast platforms.
Involvement in this podcast does not imply political endorsement.
Thanks to Robin Stafford for arranging this.
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If the Lib Dems maintain a commitment to PR they will get my vote at the next election (the only thing they have said that makes them attractive to me) but even better if they improve their outlook on economics.
Amusing that Pryce thinks that it is the private sector that funds off-shore wind. She is correct that it is funded by energy bills paid by Uk serfs.
But in the case of the Uk, the majority of MWs in off-shore wind are owned by government (Orsted – 50.1% owned – Danish state, Vattenfall – 100% Swedish state, Edf – 100% France). Thus the payments by UK serfs for elec from off-shore wind go to the governments in other countries. This reality, is lost on Pryce – and one supposes, most of the Lib-Dems. After all, if acknowledged it would expose them for the gullible fools, they were 2010 – 2015 when the CfD regieme for off-shore wind was introed and a UK gov owned off-shore wind operators could have been formed. It never occured to them (being credulous imbeciles then & now) that what was good enough for the Danish & Swedish states – might have been good enough for the United Serfdom. The thought never crossed their minds – they are functionally incapable of such thought.
A quick search finds the video version available on youtube here:
The Green Book Series – Economic policy
LibDem Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MaDOCEtAk
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Thanks
Thanks, that was useful and allowed me to watch the whole Zoom debate and to see and hear Richard Murphy’s economic theory which I would roughly describe as “There is plenty left!”. It was also interesting to hear the reactions from the other two panellists and the convenor.
I picked up the need for altruism, which could be a stumbling block but thought the idea of labelled silos of capital (to encourage altruism I guess) better than the vagueness of manifesto promises.
I wish Labour would convene a similar meeting to hear Richard sharing his ideas in the context of a possible GE victory for the party of which I’m a member.
Modern Keynesian economics can be as radical . or even more so, than a pure socialist program.
I wonder if that has occurred to the Labour Left?
I wish it would
Having chaired the podcast, I guess Ive been ‘outed’, if it had not already been apparent!
I would say that in my experience, most of the LibDem activists I know seem to be a lot more radical than the current Labour party. Mind you Im sure thats equally true of most Labour activists. The shared challenge is to drag UK politics back from its current drift to the neoliberal right, and the social, environmental and economic mess it has created.
Agreed