Danny Blanchflower and I have been on other people's YouTube channels. This was Danny on Owen Jones' channel yesterday:
I also noted that Polotics Joe had put out my interview from Thursday as a separate YouTube:
Why does this matter? That's becauwee getting our ideas out to a wider audience is key to creating change.
Which is also why being on other media helps, and I have been on LBC twice in the last coiple of days. This all takes time, but that's how change happens.
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Brilliant Danny!
I saw in the video (at 26 mins.) that Danny Blanchflower was inviting Owen Jones to join you as an advisor. I hope he does.
I was also pleased to hear (at 41 mins.) Danny Blanchflower say “I want to scare Rachel Reeves senseless with really imagining the consequences of what she is going to do.” I hope he does.
Rachel Reeves has to know there are other opinions
Yes, but does she care. Especially with Blair telling Starmer to ignore any, and virtually all, criticism,
I think the consequence which concerns her is she’s going to get very rich by pandering to the whims of giant corporations, corporation who in turn will be grateful for her services.
I can’t see a government which doesn’t care about the people of Gaza caring any more for its own citizens.
I don’t believe the Mile End Economists will make any difference at all, not that I don’t agree with their aims, just that Reeves/Starmer won’t be interested. The welfare state will be means tested throughout. As Danny said, austerity kills people. I’m sure that’s the aim.
So why bother with anything, including commenting here then? If you don’t think change possible why do it?
I watched the Danny Blanchflower interview on Owen Jones’s channel last night – excellent stuff.
Many thanks for your work – especially to a wide audience on Radio 2 – they are great and much needed. (I particularly enjoy your podcasts with Tony and Martin on the Echo Chamber, and I recently listened to the Common Weal podcast you did with Craig Dalzell. The latest Common Weal pod analysing the GE with Robin McAlpine is also good!).
All good listening company as I walk to work through the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds!
Nice place to walk
It’s a rough old game is politics – especially if you expect people not to challenge you!!
Aaahhhh……………………..Not.
Jones needs to stand back a bit more and let Danny talk – once he gets into his stride, the depth of his knowledge and humanism comes through. Thanks for posting. Do I have to sign up to X or does he blog somewhere else?
I mean, knowing that the pension industry was in trouble within 2 hours of Truss & Kwarteng’s government who did not even talk to them about their proposals!!! And those two are still venerated in certain places? Jesus!
My union is balloting me on strike action. They have indicated to me that I should be on £10,500 more per year than I am on because of austerity and nil to below wage rises since 2010. I have worked all my life, sometime 50 hours a week if not more and took on student debt to ‘improve myself’ and stand on my own two feet and provide for myself and mine as much as possible AND paid my taxes.
And where is our government’s side of the deal? Healthcare? Clean water? Effective trade relations? Opportunities? Further education and much more?
Where is this Labour government?
Answer: Nowhere.
@Danny and Richard –
keep up the good work and keep fighting the fight for good.
I suggest a good edit and reduction in overall length, and a bit less talking over Owen in the Owen / Danny interview
I disagree.
Owen needs to get out of the way.
Blanchflower does not need interpreting. He speaks and explains very clearly indeed. He’s no egotist, but you have to have the minerals to speak up like this these days. It’s also good to see Richard share a platform with someone else.
Apart from an actual pay rise if Labour had any imagination they should do a university debt forgiveness for doctors / all health staff / teachers in return for a commitment to work 100% for th4 NHS / state schools for a period of time eg 6 years.
That would both reduce the pressure on the size of the pay rise needed and ensure a workforce.
Danny said there were four possibilities
1 I’m right and so is everyone else -that’s OK
2 I’m wrong (or proven so) and so is everyone else-that’s OK
3 I’m right and everyone else is wrong. I get credit for a day or so.
4 I’m wrong and everyone is right. The possibility of that is so bad that no one will put themselves in the position of breaking from the pack. So they are happy to be in the pack and wrong.”
We often ask, on this blog, why do they not do X or why do they do Y?
This explains a great deal.
He’s done a lot of work on this stuff
Excellent posts from both. I was familiar with Queen Mary Road and the Bow Road annex. I will be writing to my new MP (Pendle and Clitheroe) tomorrow.