November is not quite over yet, but it is already the best month ever in the history of this blog:
All I can say is thank you. It's been quite a year.
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Fantastic! Look after yourselves at chez Murphy.
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Like Graham I a close to my 3score and ten and don’t comment much as I am really only starting to appreciate how powerful an understanding of taxation, MMT, double entry bookkeeping etc is. It really challenges my whole thinking and approach to a whole variety of other things. It also makes me more optimistic and hopeful about our shared future. Many heartfelt thanks Richard and backup team for all the hard graft you obviously put in.
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I suspect the reason for the upward trajectory is because you are beginning to cut through with the public’s consciousness and are starting to win the argument. Obviously the neoliberal anti-socialists will not take this lying down and turn up the vitriol against you but so what? The more they come after you the more obvious and self-interested they demonstrate themselves to be. In the motto of my home city “Forward!”. I know and appreciate how much effort you have put into fighting this battle but please take care and give yourself some ‘me time’. The revolution can wait for the weekend.
Thanks, Martin. I am just back from some great birdwatching. Much refreshed.
Game theory says that 5% of the population in favour can drive a large change. Maybe it’s not right, but it is hopeful. You are nearly there!
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Here’s my take on what’s happening, and it is political rather than economic.
1. Both main UK parties have collapsed. That’s a lot of votes.
2. Reform leads the polls significantly. Despite the majority of the country NOT wanting a Reform government, our FPTP voting system, will, in the current climate probably give Nigel Fa***e his ticket to Downing Street. Reform’s politically diverse support base, will be difficult to keep together in years to come.
3. Reform’s popularity is not guaranteed, as Fa***e comes under scrutiny for both his racism https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dny3r3vyo and for his close links with convicted paid Russian apologist, Nathan Gill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko . There is growing chaos in Reform-led local councils. Their poll lead is wobbly and people may react negatively to that in the May local elections.
4. About 800,000 left-wing voters are being badly let down by the shambles of YourParty, as the grass roots tussle with at least two factions. Factional “slates” dominate the voting process, expulsions are taking place, and security have manhandled dissenters from the conference hall. How familiar! (declaration of interest – I signed up as a supporter, but have not joined). Can they recover?
5. The Greens are experiencing a significant poll bounce and considerable media exposure as Zack Polanski uses a combination of populism and clearly explained progressive politics to win support.
6. Those who for a variety of reasons (not primarily because they have an overriding concern for the planet), now want to jump on the Green Party bandwagon, as policy-influencers, perhaps hoping for selection to a safe Westminster seat. Some to further their professional political careers, others to shift the Greens towards their own political version of progressive politics or class warfare.
Richard’s truth-telling about money, and taxes, + his exposition of a politics of care, is attracting interest from supporters and critics.
I sense that most of us are here for two reasons.
a) truth-telling about the economy, hostage to 45 years of destructive neo-liberal lies about money and tax.
b) Richard’s “politics of care” aimed at making the world a better place – committed to change rather than dogma or ideology.
Where do we go from here? I don’t know, but we are well placed to make a difference, using the tools provided here.
Much to agree with. Thank you, too.
Having taken part in the inaugural Your Party conference, I am acutely aware of the disinformation that is being expressed by people who do not know what happened. There was a Telegraph article which was just a lie, for instance. But I see it here too. Please, get your facts straight and do not spread misinformation.
Oh come on, it was a shambles based on faction fighting, tantrums and outcomes that are unsaleable to any electorate. Why pretend otherwise? I won’t. Please feel free to live with your fantasies, but I trust The National, and they were present and not impressed, and nor am I by anything I heard, inclduiong the willingness to let the SWP in. I would wish it otherwise – let’s be clear – but it wasn’t. It’s game over for whatever it will now be called. The left might need a new party, but this is not it.
Thank you for all your hard work . Enjoy a peaceful Christmas and New Year with the birdies.
I’d imagine much of the web growth flows from your decision to invest in producing YouTube content. The commitment to learning-by-doing is admirable and progress measurable.
Driving traffic from one platform to another is notoriously difficult. With the increased resource and energy brought by your expanded team these positive engagement trends will surely continue upward as our current politics of inequality is generating a real thirst for economic understanding that is delivered by trusted and independent authorities.
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@Linda Shepperd
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/30/the-best-ever-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1056134
Linda, you ask us to get our facts right, in a comment on my post.
Which facts? You don’t specify, so how do I respond?
I’ve been following reports from:
Crispin Flintoff emails (I subscribe – he was there)
The Canary emails – (I subscribe, they were there).
Your Party emails (I’m an early supporter who hasn’t joined, they were there).
Peace and Justice Movement – (I subscribe – they were there).
The Guardian – (they were there, I think).
I think that’s a reasonable cross-section of sources, given that I haven’t joined the party and couldn’t apply to the sortition delegate selection. Some of my earlier supporter’s donation funded the conference organisation. I think I’m entitled to say, on any reasonable analysis, it was a PR disaster for several reasons. I would have preferred it to have succeeded, but it didn’t.
I don’t read the Daily Telegraph, I’ll be accountable for what I post, not what the Telegraph publishes.
I look forward to your report and any corrections you can demonstrate are needed to deal with errors in my post.
Your sources overlap some of mine. They all agree.
I saw a Goldfinch yesterday & thought of you! Keep on Richard! Here’s a poem you might enjoy:
The creaks and rustles of heaven
The leaves have been falling
Even though Summer is still with us
Just
And I glide through the early piles
Remembering the Autumn glee of childhood
Being up to my waist in the brown, the orange and the red
But now my older legs walk softly
As I wander through this old wood
Suddenly there a rustle
And a squirrel darts across my path
Did he look back at me?
And another rustle
This time a pheasant scurries away on the other side of the stream
Did I happen across an illicit meeting between feather and fur?
But that is all over now
And I tramp onwards
Vaguely scuffing the early mulch beneath my feet
Until I find a bench to rest upon
I sit there, trying not to move or even breathe
Listening to the sounds of the forest
And all of sudden I am in the middle of an orchestra
Of creaking trees
Each following the beat of the wind conductor
I close my eyes to focus upon the music of this place
And smile
Bathed in this quiet but intense and woody rhapsody
And I walk on
This time an inch or two above the leaves
Thank you.
I stood in silence yesterday for some time – or rather Jacqueline and I did.
We stod lisetning to a winter chiff chaff – and it was beautiful. Not long after a hen harrier flow over, silent as ever.
Silence in the countryside is very powerful.