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build wind farms and solar arrays write bad poetry RT *everything*
More. Can only assume the Islington council planning officer from 30 years ago had complete contempt for the people of Finsbury Park
Whole thing seems to me to be dancing around the fact that Local authorities that got fucked more by austerity tend to 1. be whiter areas and 2. have worse funded schools
I google *Starmer and Stephen Bush watching football together* and got this, so at least some part of privacy law is working I guess
While we’re talking pensions policy and tax benefits would you look at this! In the teeth of austerity!
As to how much wealth there is worth remembering that 1. Estimates are based on self reporting and 2. In the 90s Shirley Porter claimed to have only 300k as she moved assets of circa 70m through trusts and to family members. An outlier case perhaps
What I like about this discourse vs say MMT is you won’t get yr centrist tenchnocratic favourites up in Tett’s mentions telling her she’s a risible dickhead like they would some amateur internet enthusiasts craving a little social democracy and next week she’ll still have her ft column
A nice little factoid in here to remember when we rely on self reported wealth to calibrate inequality with respect to the 1%
On this stuff you might fancy a look at Shrimsleys just dropped column, an absolute belter
Turns out you can get right to the top of U.K. politics and key state institutions just by consistently insulating yourself from decisions that are nominally your responsibility
Underrated social undercurrent to inequality debates between centrist econ bro technocrats and lefties is that the latter are likely to be in the public sector and the former are finance or finance adjacent and brother, uh