Unemployment is just the number of people claiming JSA, it's not an accurate indicator of spare capacity in the economy.

QE is effectively printing money but it's been done in such a way whereby it is targeted and doesn't impact on prices in the wider economy, especially as it hasn't actually targeted anything remotely to do with productivity.

The suggestion isn't merely to increase the money supply, it's to issue new bonds to the private market and for the proceeds to be used to fund infrastructure. Commercial Banks do this all the time. In 2008 they had overstretched and created too much debt which wasn't backed up by reserves. This isn't an issue for a government with a central bank. New money will only be created to purchase the bonds which aren't taken up on the bond markets.

There is enough capacity in the UK economy for such infrastructure investment to occur without it being at the expense of something else.

If you just flooded the economy with newly created money that would just cause inflation.

I'd rather no one was dead but rather a dead IRA man than a dead loyalist. I don't support vigilantism but the enemy of my enemy is my friend....at least temporarily. This has been true in all conflicts.

I am 100 percent opposed to your belief that there is an equivalency between the IRA and its unionist counterparts.

It's one of the identifying aspects of the far left that I can never accept.

There was no loyalist campaign to murder British soldiers. I'm pro the British state...while recognising that it...like all human entities...makes mistakes....This does not mean however that I'm willing to make the equivalencies that some believe in.

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Listening to their friends at the Daily Mail and The Sun. Not to normal people. If they believed in the policy they announced they would have had the conviction to see it through. It's becoming clear it wasn't properly thought out.

Their manifesto is a pretty poor effort. Nothing costed. Policies akin to cutting off your right leg to try and reattach it, mangled and ill-shaped, where your left arm used to be, which they decided to cut off in the previous parliament. Again though, cuts and pain being delivered to young kids and sick pensioners, rather than bankers and city traders.

I'm all for inheritance tax, but this policy isn't the way to make things fairer. It's just a way of disincentivising people from seeking care when they need it.

Exactly. Thought this might happen. It's actually not a bad tactic when it's a cost to individuals. Could cost you this much but now we've changed it to this much.

COYP

They are seeing it through though arent they? Just tweaked it a little...

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The problem is by listening and tailoring policies based on public feedback..afterall what a demonstrations for(?)..it reduces the anti / protest elements basis for argument.

So I can see why you are trying to flower it up as anything other than listening to what people have been complaining about.

Would be nice if they did it for the other 5 years they were in power for though...but I guess you have to start somewhere.

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