I wouldn't pay much for it. But as he chooses to ally with those who take selfies with the corpses of murder victims, Keir Starmer knows perfectly well what "defunding the Police" means. What he pretended to believe that it meant has been going on for 10 years, and he wants to double down on it by returning to the austerity programme as a matter of principle.
But the real problem with either meaning is the same. It fails to take account of the fact that as a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency, the United Kingdom has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling inflation. Those means must therefore be under democratic political control.
Therefore, there is no reason not to honour Labour's 2017 and 2019 manifesto commitments to restore and increase funding of the Police, in need of reform though they obviously are, while also "investing in programmes that actually keep us safe like youth services, mental health and social care, education, jobs and housing. Key services to support the most vulnerable before they come into contact with the criminal justice system."
There is every reason to do both. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.
But the real problem with either meaning is the same. It fails to take account of the fact that as a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency, the United Kingdom has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling inflation. Those means must therefore be under democratic political control.
Therefore, there is no reason not to honour Labour's 2017 and 2019 manifesto commitments to restore and increase funding of the Police, in need of reform though they obviously are, while also "investing in programmes that actually keep us safe like youth services, mental health and social care, education, jobs and housing. Key services to support the most vulnerable before they come into contact with the criminal justice system."
There is every reason to do both. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.
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