Posts tagged with: Austerity

If Labour Meant Business

What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

Can We Afford MMT? The Question Makes No Sense

Modern Monetary Theory isn’t a potentially risky radical fiscal plan but simply a description of how the British state already spends This article is by Vince Gomez, 99% member, former […]

Rewiring the State for National Success

This is an approximate transcript of the second meeting of the Progressive Economics Working Group, held in Parliament on 10 February 2026 to launch a new report on Rewiring for […]

What if Keynes was right?

How a widespread but false narrative is condemning us to economic decline The post-war decades were the Golden Age of Capitalism during which most countries, successfully adopted a Keynesian view […]

Will this Budget Keep Labour’s Promises?

Backbench rebels have made this a better Budget than it would have been, but they have more to do to prevent the UK having the Biden experience Labour made several […]

Scoring the 10-year Plan: Fit for the Future?

Inaugural meeting in Parliament of the Working Group on the NHS This is an approximate transcript of the inaugural meeting in Parliament on 11 November 2025 of the Working Group […]

If You Were Chancellor…

Now is your chance to see if you would deliver national renewal The Budget is due on November 26. Like all Budgets it will enable the Treasury to set the […]

Fiscal Rules vs Economic Renewal

Inaugural meeting of the Working Group on Progressive Economics The expert panel with three of the MPs This is an approximate transcript of the inaugural meeting in Parliament on 20 […]

What Should the Chancellor do in November?

The Prime Minster has promised a decade of national renewal – the Chancellor needs to act now for that to be possible Introduction Things have not been going well in […]

Two Futures for Britain

Without bold action by the government, British citizens could find ourselves living in a formerly-developed nation In the book 99%, which was published in 2019, I made what felt at […]

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