[Politics] Venezuela,over to you.

[papajaff]

I do he writes a load of old crap he reads in the Mail each morning, he is a Tory troll so I put him on ignore

You couldn't do us a favour and put NSC on ignore could you?

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

are there others proposing to print £500bn or local equivilent to fund everything?

and with that long list of crisis, seem to be confusing social policy with economic policy. or is that just highlighting the heart of the matter, in socialist thinking everything is an economic problem that can be solved by throwing more money at it?

Rarely has the need for new ways of thinking been more glaringly obvious. From the sluggish economic growth and financial instability of the last several years to the perennial issues of political upheaval, resource crises, hunger, poverty, and disease, people have come to realise that the old ways of doing things no longer work.

We are in desperate need of a fundamental transformation of social, economic, and cultural arrangements as all are intrinsically linked. The current government have shown time and time again they are simply inadequate to the challenge. What we need instead are creative and innovative solutions for fostering sustainable growth, securing jobs, and increasing competitive abilities. Whether Corbyn’s will produce that remains to be seen. What is clear however, is that the current paradigm is failing.

 

[portslade seagull]

People simply believe what the mainstream media tell them about Jeremy Corbyn being some kind of terrifying leftist bogeyman with bonkers extreme-left policies. They're unwilling to even consider the fact that most of Corbyn's headline economic policies are commonplace across the developed world, and in fact it's radically right-wing Tory policies like handing control of state schools to private sector pseudo-charities, privatising police services, and vandalising the health system that are desperately unpopular, and pretty damned rare in successful developed economies.

Policies that will win votes and that are in place across the world...

Free university education:
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland

Cooperation tax rates above 20%:
USA, Germany, Japan, Canada

National investment banks:
Norway, South Korea, Singapore, Australia

Publicly owned national grid:
Denmark, USA, Sweden, New Zealand

Publicly owned railways:
Netherlands, France, Japan, Hong Kong

Publicly owned mail system:
Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland

Who pays for it .

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Who pays for it .

The Labour Party manifesto was fully-costed. Every single spending commitment has an allocated funding source. They claim it's the most comprehensively costed manifesto ever, and I can't remember seeing a better one. As I hinted at in my previous post, austerity has failed miserably. Time to move on.