Category: Economics
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Spare Any Change? | ‘I Warn You Not to be Poor’
Change is the word you’ll have heard most around this election. It’s actually become a fetish – something that people are obsessed with, without rationally thinking exactly what the kind of change it is that they want – as I blogged about in a series of posts beginning here, and as Bill Bailey has put…
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“If You Want a Nigger for a Neighbour…” | St George | Economic Racism
Interesting piece on the Today programme this morning, re-visiting the constituency of Smethwick – a safe seat in which was notoriously won by the vile Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths in 1964 following his campaign which ran under the slogan ‘If You Want A Nigger For A Neighbour, Vote Labour.” Smethwick reacted to chuck out the…
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If There’s One Single Issue You Should Vote On, It’s This…
So the General Election that we all knew was coming is finally out in the open. How should you vote? How should we decide how to vote? I think that there is a single issue that we should all be asking our prospective representatives about: income equality. If you get a chance to speak to…
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The Robin Hood Tax: Perpetuating the Problem by Taxing the Thief
Interesting video with Bill Nighy talking about the ‘Robin Hood Tax‘ that would see 50p raked off all financial transactions that didn’t include members of the public. This would raise around £200bn globally each year which could be put into projects helping the poor: Obviously raising money to help the poor is a wonderful idea,…