This Tweet from Neil Mackay, a journalist on The Herald in Scotland refers to Surviving 2023:
Neil's article begins by saying:
IF there's one document you read today make it ‘Surviving 2023' by the acclaimed British economist Richard Murphy. He lays out in stark, almost apocalyptic, language why we're entering an economic ice age and how our paralysed government and political parties should respond. Failure, he warns, means “people will die”.
Reviews do not get much clearer than that.
'Surviving 2023' is available here.
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In fact I’ll go a step further – if there’s one document you should read and THEN PASS ON to friends, family and colleagues it’s ‘Surviving 2023’.
Let’s do it – now!
The only fault I can find with your plan is that it would depend on this present awful Tory Government to implement it.
As we have seen over the last forty years of Neo-liberal Tory government all Tory schemes appear to consist of two parts.
1 The scheme will be deliberately underfunded, it will be shackled by Tory dogma and suffer from trademark Tory incompetence. The scheme will therefore be judged a failure, thereby confirming the Tory prejudice that Government solutions do not work. The perfect circular argument that they have depended on ever since Thatcher.
2 Despite the general failure of the scheme we will find that mysteriously it has made the Tories and their supporters even richer and more powerful, usually because yet more of the public sector will have been handed over to the rentier economy.
P.S. Get well.
Thanks
I write plans for what could be done, not will be done
I know Richard and they are much appreciated. I hope that I am not being impertinent, but that is why we all need you to look after yourself.
This reminds me of what a prominent YouTuber and Labour Party supporter said recently when discussing Labour’s plan. He said words to the effect that some economists, by which I suspect he means Richard Murphy, think they have a better plan but it doesn’t matter because the plan will not be implemented anyway.
To him what seems to matter in the Labour plan are:
I) It cannot easily be dismissed by the Tory press,
2) It appeals to those voters in marginal constituencies that could swing the vote in favour of Labour,
and:
3) It contains policies that are likely to be pinched by the Tories so that Labour can take political advantage of this fact.
Incidentally he seems to have stopped me commenting on his channel, or, at least, I seem to be able to comment but my comments disappear. It’s very odd but I get the impression from some of what he says that he does actually read them.
Note if you will Bernard that when the Tories nick Labour polices it’s in name only – and they do the same with their own ‘flagship policies too – like ‘Levelling Up’.
Essentially the Tories lie about their polices because they have actually only had one policy since 2010 – to strip out £12 billion from public sector budgets every year.
And they will not stop because they are Thatcherite extremists amongst other things.
£12 billion?
That little?
@Pilgrim I guess that aforementioned YouTuber knows that the Tories nick Labour policies in name only, which is consistent with his opinion that what matters about Labour’s plan is that it can be used for political gamesmanship rather than that it is a viable plan to deal with the situation.
However his attitude leads to a political danger that he has not considered. The more of Labour’s plan the Tories appear to be implementing, the less credible Labour’s plan will seem when the government fails to deal with the problem. It seems to me that even from the point of view of political gamesmanship, one ought to try to make the plan as viable as possible regardless of whether or not parts of it seem nickable to the Tories.
I wonder if the Herald will describe you as a ‘renowned economist’ in a discussion about your work on GERS? I suspect not.
The truth hurts and the awful truth even more. How the Tories, media, and the general public are gullible or ignorant of the basic economic and economic facts presented by Richard is a complete mystery. If the Herald in Scotland can herald a breakthrough in awareness by promoting Surviving 2023 this is great news, the great pity is that the Sun, Mail et al will never accept it (or maybe they will when it’s too late), we are in for a rough time (to say the least!) unless Surviving 2023 is put into action pretty damned sharpish.
Well, Ofgem decided to make no changes in the way household energy bills are charged.
I guess that’s what happens when (probably) all appointees live in the same little bubble, the same soc-ec background, and seemingly move between the same kinds of posts during their working lives. They have no connection whatsoever with the lives lived by millions of their supposed compatriots.
is this your most important piece of work ever?
No, but I think it up there
Many thanks Richard.
Excellent grasp of the details.
I hope you are feeling better.
Richard, get fully better soon.
Thank you for the constant stream of essential information. “How do you know all this?“ A friend of mine asked me this morning.
I think it is not impossible that we are seeing the beginning of a peaceful revolution in which people of goodwill and sense refuse to be led by the nose any longer. I shall certainly do all that I can to support such a movement.
Please keep up the good work.
I am working at about 60%
This blog and Twitter are in the continuing 60%