Yeahā¦great imageā¦
Good for us.
Thereās no progressive inclinations here, let alone an understandings of what Keynes believedā¦ Labour may as well not bother turning up to the next election.
Do we have Rogerās thoughts?
I think itās important to acknowledge that the time constraints would have meant that some of the things that both parties wanted to agree just didnāt have the sufficient time to resolve. These things are not now left unresolved in perpetuity simply because they didnāt make the deadline, theyāll just be finalised over the next few weeks and months. This might be portrayed as u-turns or concessions or whatever but itās just a consequence of not extending the deadline to ratify āanā agreement. Johnson left himself very little space to manoeuvre there although I can understand why that approach was adopted. It has left loads of loose ends though.
true, but there was a heap of time wasting done at the front end of the negotiations, particularly by the UK I believe.
To my mind it was a UK tactic to wind the clock down to try and force concessions from the EU. Iām not convinced that went well.
But thatās done now. We need to live with it and hope that we can work with the EU to improve certain aspects.
I also see that the US has stated that they will be focusing on their own affairs for the time being leaving the prospect of a UK / US trade deal on the back burner. For my mind the longer that happens the better. I think itās an ominously dangerous path with Boris at the helm.
Did the government go crawling back to the Cold Chain Federation when they needed them to distribute a certain vaccine?
The Ā£500 is a very simple way of getting people to get tested and then forced to isolate rather than just going about their normal lives and killing people.
Surprising it has taken the government so long to introduce it or increased sick pay for the same reasonā¦Its been an obvious gap in support since day one.
While not being an expert on Keynes, The government borrowing to invest when interest rates are low, and providing stability I would have thought are very keynesian ideas. As for progressive inclinations, I guess that would be in this paragraph?
āThat flexibility will then be used for social democratic economic programmes: support for sectors which are struggling, a green stimulus to get Britain to net-zero while creating thousands of jobs, action on low wages, investment in public services so that they are resilient the next time an external threat like coronavirus rears its head.ā
From that graphic, the only option was to be only within the grey/beige EU customs union with Turkey/Andorra/San Marino. Rejecting the 4 freedoms leaves you outside any of the other rings.