⟳ Репост от Andrew
Govts use fiscal rules to push privatisations and public spending cuts. Rules suspended during bank bailouts. Rules are not accompanied by social goals e.g. full employment, reduction in poverty, reindustrialisation, public ownership of vital industries. Must suspend them to rebuild UK economy.
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rulesSticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.leftfootforward.org