I noticed this happened overnight:
I have been noting every 10,000 additional Twitter followers since September 2020, when I reached 60,000 after more than a decade on that site. The number has more than doubled since then. 30,000 have been added since early February.
Why note this? Simply because I am campaigning for alternative economic thinking, and it's good to know that some people are noticing.
The trolls are. I let the odd example on, but many more get deleted right now for offering irrelevant, inane comment, after which they then claim I deny them their right to freedom of speech. That is, of course, pure nonsense. They are free to run their own blogs. This one is for those who want a better, fairer, world.
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That’s a phenomenal increase, Richard. It’s great to see an articulate progressive columnist getting more widely read. The more ordinary folk understand how our money system actually works, the better.
Why, oh why can’t Labour and SNP leaders see this?
They are frightened to explain basic truths to the electorate.
Thanks
And 8 wish I knew….
Given you have blocked over 20,000 people it is impressive stuff. And you can’t deny that a blog which thinks Zimbabwe and North Korea are examples of economies to emulate is ‘alternative thinking!
Actually it’s 573 in 16 years, many of which are duplicates
You clearly can’t get anything right
Ha ha, ‘apt’ Richard.
You are doing good in the world.
Thank you.
Politically the Tories certainly seem to have learned lessons from North Korea whose dear leader is personally responsible for everything that goes right in the world while everything that goes wrong is someone else’s fault. Here is a link to the English version of Rodong Sinmun a very popular newspaper: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/ If you ignore the obvious cultural differences, it’s remarkably similar to the Express.
Economically we haven’t reached the point where we only have one significant export with only one country willing to buy it, and the government has not yet thought is necessary to publish official guidance as to which wild grasses are the most nutritious, but the Tories post Brexit are certainly moving us in that general direction.
Of course the influence does not only go one way. About 10% of the real estate in Pyonyang is owned by the ‘donju’ that seems to consist in Chinese billionaires, corrupt officials and relatives of Kim Jung Un, many of whom do not actually live there but find it a convenient place to park some of their wealth. So it would appear that while we are busy emulating the worst aspects of their economy they are busy emulating the worst aspects of ours.
I don’t know if there are any blogs that explicitly recommend we emulate the economy of North Korea but such a blog would have much more in common with the economic thinking of the current government than with anything Richard might recommend.
Impressive.
I’ve been encouraged by real-world conversations with millennials of late.
I think we are getting through.
Please keep banging your very lucid drum.
Good for you and good for me.
I obviously don’t need to go on Twitter. This is is enough for me and I’m glad this blog is here.