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What nobody seems to realise on this thread is that in countries with their own sovereign currency such as the UK, Japan, USA , (e.g. not in the Eurozone or tied to the dollar) taxes are not there to fund government spending, but perform other functions, for example, imparting value to the...

Points of order - NHS funding and all other central govenment expenditure is not sourced from taxation in a country such as the UK with its own sovereign currency. Many countries in the world fund their health provision centrally - so the UK is not that unusual

Not altogether what point you are making here, I was just giving an example of someone who had been elected PM and proclaiming a strong ideological position. I dont see why this should necessarily change between when Thatcher was elected and now.

Absolutely this: Noticeable that many in the socially conservative Charedi Orthodox Jewish community (around 67,000 about a quarter of theh Jewish population in the UK, also supported Corbyn. They are opposed to the state of Israel on religious grounds and have been attacked by senior labour...

Corbyn "is far too publicly ideological and opinionated to either lead a major opposition party (or be Prime Minister), because he loses all the flexibility a leader needs at certain times" What, a bit like "this lady is not for turning" Magaret Thatcher?.

I think that’s splitting hairs and I don’t know where the Guardian is getting it’s ICU data as it hasn’t been published since July. The Guardian also recently released an article by an an anonymous hospital consultant complaining that hospitals are full of non vaccinated COVID patients. It’s...

The data from the governments own UKHSA latest Vaccine Surveillance report breakdown of hospitalisations by vaccination status in England for the four weeks up to November 14th would seems to conflict with the Guardian`s conclusions. It shows that in total 3,200 of 9,831 or 33% of Covid...

No we should revert to the pre March 2020 government and WHO advice on mask wearing in accordance with our well established pandemic plan. As Chris Whitty, chief medical officer pointed out "Although there is a perception that the wearing of facemasks by the public in the community and...

No, I`m saying the government does not require tax or the issue of bonds (which is erroniously referred to as `borrowing`) to fund its spending. Tax and bond issueing perform other functions, for example, in the case of tax, to make sure that otherwise valueless coins or notes have value because...

Why Oh Dear? After 1971 when the UK abandoned the gold standard, and the pound became a fiat currency, that`s the way the monetary system works . Answer these questions - where do tax payers get their money if not from the government, or its agents, the banks? Why would a government with its...

The money is created by the government when it decides to spend it doesn’t have to wait for the receipts from elsewhere. This only applies to governments with their own currency so countries within the eurozone for example cannot do this, nor can local authorities or households.

They don’t need too. Tax does not fund public services as it performs other functions in the economy.

I didnt say they didnt help reduce transmission, and that some subsequent evidence may suggest that they do, but there main purpose originally was to mitigate the symptoms of COVID not to act as a vaccine per se. They have of course now been used in this role to various degrees of effectiveness.

Yes the purpose of a conventional vaccine is to do this. These new MRNA vaccines dont work in the same way, however, and thats why i usually put "vaccine" in quotes. I`m not sure about the production of T cells from the "vaccine". Some scientist argue that the immunity from reinfection may...

I said that the main purpose of the mrna "vaccines" was as a medical treatment to mitigate some of the worst symptoms in the vulnerable. At inception the manufacturers admitted this. No I havent read the paper you put forward yet but i dont deny that they may in some situations prevent...

Im definitely not much of a speller thats for sure.

I am a very long-time fan of the Albion but I find the political debates more interesting to get involved with than the football ones which despite what Bill Shankley said are not ultimately more important than life or death. Health policy, macro ecomomics, and geo politics, do fall into that...

I agree. I dont know the full details of the Churchill Square protest. Did the protesters actually block people attending or did securtiy shut the centre down as a reaction?

The MRNA vaccines are not designed to prevent transmission. They are to alleviate the symptoms of severe disease. If you believe in asymptomatic transmission, the justification for the use of masks, then it would make no difference whether the care worker was vaccinated or unvaccinated. In fact...

Yes they are effectively being forced to take the jab in some circumstances, if they work in a Nursing Home for example. The consequences should be for them to decide on health grounds not because of societal pressure to conform. Do you think that we should now make it compulsory in future to...