Beyond a small service charge to maintain the pipes and what not, why do these rain-sodden islands full of rivers and lakes charge for water? Yet despite the unanswerable argument in each case, the Government refuses to renationalise any of the water companies, because then it would have to do them all. Yes, that really is what it is saying.
But it is happy to see Harland and Wolff bought by Navantia, which is the Kingdom of Spain. I am as delighted as anyone for the thousand people whose jobs this has secured. The point is that the Fleet Solid Support Programme, to build three ships for the Royal Navy, has been handed over, not only to a foreign state as such, but to one with an irredentist claim to a British Overseas Territory.
So much for the Tories and Reform.
ReplyDeleteThe long shadow of Thatcherism.
DeleteThe American Trumpian Right is now fiercely protectionist and would be totally against anything like this.
ReplyDeleteYou'll learn. Again. This will not be Donald Trump's first term.
DeleteAs Trump pledges even bigger “America First” tariffs on China and Mexico than before to bring manufacturing jobs home, and yesterday condemned Biden’s decision to authorise US missile strikes into Russia and says Ukraine must make a deal with Russia to keep US aid…
ReplyDeleteFrom 19:28 to 20:02 in the below video of George Galloway’s latest appearance on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored, Galloway slates the modern Left as anti-freedom and pro war and admits he now prefers the Right and effectively identifies as a US Republican.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pPGQUp0T1sE&pp=ygUVZ2FsbG93YXkgcGllcnMgbW9yZ2Fu
Trump is following the curve on Ukraine, and George has been saying all of this for years. I doubt that the GOP has signed up to Modern Monetary Theory.
DeletePeter Hitchens has been saying for much longer that it is the Left that is now pro war and anti freedom-his brother was a pioneering example. Galloway is right about this (in the sense a stopped clock is right twice a day). Of course the GOP wouldn’t sign up to an economic theory that would cause even worse inflation and put the Democrats in charge of creating money.
ReplyDeleteIf they win the relevant election, as they sometimes do, then they are in charge of that, anyway. It is not a "theory" in the saloon bar sense of the word.
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