I just noticed LBC had clipped my interview with Vanessa Feltz yesterday and put it out in Twitter:
'Both of them are talking a load of nonsense.'
Accounting professor @RichardJMurphy says it's 'absurd' for Rachel Reeves' to claim that the £20 billion black hole is a 'great surprise'. pic.twitter.com/VMJu4U6xKm
— LBC (@LBC) July 27, 2024
Wouldn't it be good to have some honest politicians who had got beyond the petty squabbling stage?
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Plain speaking is a virtue. Not insulting, patronising or attempting to pretend to a higher knowledge than the listener.
I am reminded of this. You will be familiar with it.
“Plain speaking is a longstanding Quaker testimony. It is not only that we hold a witness to the value of truth but also that straightforwardness saves us from many mistakes and much time wasted. On first acquaintance some Quakers can seem rather brusque; without the conventions of flattery and half-truths, we particularly need to make clear the steadfast love we have for one another.”
Quaker Faith and Practice.
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I believe in plain speaking
Even clipped (for whatever reason) you made your poin in spectacular fashion and (it appears) without interruption or derision.
BRAVO!
Thanks
This is what Owen Jones had to say about the “black hole.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jnFYQww4j8
It’s good
Anyone remotely interested in Scottish independence will fully understand exactly what Owen Jones is talking about.
BBC propaganda and msm client “journalism”. Both corrupt and all lapped up by the zombie electorate.
We’re doomed Cap’n Mainwaring.
Doomed!
Was that steam coming out of your ears there Richard?
I don’t blame you – I don’t blame you at all if it was.
This looks like the portrayal before the betrayal.
That’s what worries me.
And I so want to be wrong.
I was ‘keeping calm’
You’re a better man than me…
Well said, but did you manage to swing the interview away from the ‘balanced budget’ framing? …that’s the real nonsense here.
I get that you have to choose your moments (and Vanessa Feltz’s LBC show probably wasn’t it), but the point is the media – and especially ‘economic editor’ types – are failing to do their job when it comes to macroeconomics. Too many are more interested in stroking their own outsize egos by affirming the utter guff that politicians spout about govt. finances. Breathlessly talking of ‘Black Holes’ being a typical example of said guff affirmation.
Except for one shining exception – the BBC News’ economic correspondent Andy Verity – who I seriously hope does one day get the the chance to ask some very uncomfortable questions of these politicians. Unfortunately it will almost certainly not be Andy, but his clueless boss (Faisal Islam), who would get to interview Rachael Reeves on her policies.
Agreed
And no, I did not get her off her conventional agenda: her monologue before introducing me was high Tory stuff