tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2584227304507638745..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Who Won the ITV Tory Leadership Debate?Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-1750082033135555152022-07-18T19:10:14.842+01:002022-07-18T19:10:14.842+01:00I was just reading “The Guardian view on Tory econ...I was just reading “<i>The Guardian view on Tory economics: for haves, not for have-nots</i>” commenting on the TV debate and I was much discombobulated to see that the editors are on the side of COMMUNISM! :-)<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/the-guardian-view-on-tory-economics-for-haves-not-for-have-nots<br />“<i>Financial market deregulation solved this by enabling households and corporations to borrow from a lightly supervised moneylending sector, which sustained purchasing power in the economy. For Conservatives this was more congenial than paying higher real wages. Brexit allows consumer protections to be further reduced to boost lenders’ profits. This will turbocharge a form of capitalism that caused the last economic crash. All of those in the race for the Tory party leadership appear committed to such moves.<br /><br />It is depressing that Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer seems committed to them too.</i>”<br /><br />A political economy driven by bigger property prices and rents and more affordable wages is what "Middle England" voters want, and New Labour is fine with that. It is a customer-centric approach, :-)Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-47957538494701308552022-07-18T18:07:24.029+01:002022-07-18T18:07:24.029+01:00«The result is pregant with division»
That is qui...«<i>The result is pregant with division</i>»<br /><br />That is quite funny as the *premises* more than the result have been divisive: Cameron was sunk by the brexiters, May was sunk by the brexiters, now Johnson is being sunk by the europhiles.<br /><br />In all three cases property prices were booming and all three Conservative leaders has substantially increased the number of Conservative voters in the preceding elections (even if May lost seats), so normally they should have been invulnerable.<br /><br />Since a large part of our ruling oligarchies were dismayed by the happening of the 2016 referendum even more than by its result, they are more determined than ever that questions of state should be decided by internal faction warfare, above the heads of the little people.Blissexnoreply@blogger.com