I was, at short notice, on the Nicky Campbell show on Radio 5 Live from 9 until 930 this morning.
We discussed the Budget, black holes, tax and cuts, and I think I got all my points across, but there was a person from the TaxPayer's Alliance on, and the callers were a mixed bag, from great to far-right.
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You need to avoid calling anyone who disagrees with what you say “far right”.
The TPA is far right.
Why should I lie?
Talking of nothing better to do, I picked up the following segment from Nicole Wallace’s ‘Deadline White House’ show yesterday evening. It’s extremely relevant to all that we’ve discussed about how Trump plans to hang onto power at the mid terms next year. It concerns the ‘gutting’ of the Voting Rights Act, such that in red states they will be able to redistrict to get rid of ALL constituencies that currently vote Democrat because they contain a majority of people of colour. The scandal here is that the Supreme Court (the right wing majority) actually asked for this case to be brought by demanding the remit of another case be broadened. I think we can be 99% sure, then, what the outcome of the case will be, with plenty of time for red states to redistrict before the mid terms. Here’s the link. Second report down: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house
(I’ll now go and listen to you on the radio).
I am sure your prediction is right.
This is plain straightforwrd gerrymandering.
I’m glad you got on, you made good use of the opportunity. Not an easy environment.
Thanks
It was good….but very frustrating for me to listen to.
It was very frustrating to take part in.
You made some great points when given the chance to speak, but I can’t help but feel you (and others having these sort of conversations including myself with my friends and family) really just need to relentlessly focus on the fundamental flaws in the neoliberal economic way of framing these questions. The question was…Where should the government get the money from that they need to spend? Which taxes should they raise to raise it? … I’d have loved a relentless focus along the lines of…”the government will get the money by creating it via the BoE as they always do. They should then raise taxes on the wealthy to address income inequality but the raising of taxes is in no way and never will be in order to raise money to spend, so the question is flawed”…and then again, and again and again.
But then again maybe that’s why you are on radio programmes and I am not!
You eventually can’t do beyond your opening shot what the presenter does not want. It’s nigh on impossible, I find. Then you are in argument / counter-argument territory.
Good that you were on Nicky Campbell – at least the listeners heard that there are ‘experts’ who question the holy fiscal rules.