This is a day to wish for what we want. And socks and staying in the EU are too mundane a wish for Christmas.
What do I want for Christmas? A Green New Deal would do nicely, thank you.
I can dream, can't I? After all, I can't think of much else that could do more to deliver long term peace on earth.
Have a good Chrsitmas.
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A joyful Christmas and a Green New Deal for 2019 to you and your family, Richard! I raise a glass of Prosecco to wish you ‘Iechyd da!’ and hope that something may emerge to give us all hope for the future.
Jeni
We have to live in hope
Have a good Christmas
Richard
I’ll drink a large cup of Fairtrade, organic Colombian to that! Wishing you and yours a happy Xmas day and a New Year full of possibilities.
Another, Barista, please
Go well
Remain! So that we have an economy to build the Green New Deal on.
What about a peerage?
No thanks…..
Not true then that you begged Corbyn for a life peerage for services rendered?
Not at all
It was discussed
But they were trying to find a way to pay me – and I suggested a tax free deal was really not the way to go!
The Guido Fawkes interpretation undoubtedly comes from within Labour, but it’s wrong
Peerages are available free of charge from Eurotunnel. I always travel as “Lord Parr” which is shown on the welcome screen when I check in. Ditto Politico and the Socttish ferries operating in the Highlands & Islands. I encourage others to likewise given themselves a New Years honour (kighthoods are also available free of charge).
🙂
I’d like an electronic regionalized Parliament with a new emphasis on direct representation of public issues by MPs and a second house both elected via proportional sortition lists and a small cross-sectional lot. MPs would spend considerable time running law-advice-centre people’s representation with close accountability for local issues. First up in this new order would be deliberation on why good sense like green project QE and eliminating poverty and homelessness has become so impossible. Access to the electronic deliberation would be open to all. Rather than re-employing Guy Fawkes, Westminster would be sold off and the money invested in the new system. I can see where this goes sideways before we hire a US IT conglomerate to do his for us. Instead, I may set up a company with Elon Musk, buying up the Sahara desert with the intent to wobble Earth’s tilt to re-green the place a few thousand years earlier than the normal cycle. I wouldn’t normally work with Elon, but it may be convenient to be on Mars when we start the wobble, or anyone asks where the cash has gone.
Good luck, as ever, Richard. The democracy 5% of us have remains in the way.
Green New Deal? For all your criticisms of Corbyn and Co. That was very much what Rebecca Long Bailey was talking about in the interview reported in The Guardian on Cheistmas Eve. Don’t give up on them. They may not get everything right but they’re certainly not getting everything wrong. Happy New Year to you and your family.
I have always been willing to talk
An excellent article on Vox, looking at the many options and the difficulties. Good to see MMT gets a mention and even your man Murphy.
Today is Boxing Day, so I’ll have to wait till the New Year to make the same wish, with a side dream of remain so we can pool resources and efforts with our neighbours and beyond, to repair our world.
Peace to Earth. Let’s allow the Earth to survive us.
And iechyd da to you and yours Richard. Meilleurs Vœux de santé et bonheur.
Thanks Marie
An eminently sensible Christmas wish, Richard. Sadly, you’re much more likely to get socks! Nonetheless, best hopes for 2019.