I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Because a lot of British voters are in the same mood as the voters who just elected Trump. They want things turned upside down because the current situation isn't working for them.
As we see across the pond, when voters vote for Populists as "things couldn't get any worse", things almost always get rapidly worse.
Worse news for the steelworkers and tertiary workers of Scunny I would have thought. Vauxhall vans closed their doors in Luton last week after 120 years.
Because these industries have been decimated over the decades from cheap overseas labour and Thatcher's law change which has allowed the Chinese and the Indians to own steelmaking capacity in the UK, has ensured when the doors finally close there aren't too many employees left to sack anyway. Through the 1990s and 2000s we rode the wave of exporting steel jobs to Korea, Italy, China and India and benefitted from unprecedented low inflation as a result. It is Labour's fault only by dint of incumbency.
'Britain First' comes the Farage cry in response. As the above shows the idea free market liberal globalisation has been perfection is of course rubbish, there is a reason the likes of Trump get elected to pursue protectionism
The USA is about to demonstrate why protectionism on stilts leads to disaster.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Because a lot of British voters are in the same mood as the voters who just elected Trump. They want things turned upside down because the current situation isn't working for them.
As we see across the pond, when voters vote for Populists as "things couldn't get any worse", things almost always get rapidly worse.
A fall in the stock market doesn't constitute things getting worse, unless perhaps you own stocks using leverage.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Because Reform is a “plague on all your houses” party...
Is that what they're promising ? Doesn't sound appealing to me.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Because a lot of British voters are in the same mood as the voters who just elected Trump. They want things turned upside down because the current situation isn't working for them.
As we see across the pond, when voters vote for Populists as "things couldn't get any worse", things almost always get rapidly worse.
A fall in the stock market doesn't constitute things getting worse, unless perhaps you own stocks using leverage.
The cratering stockmarket is predicting things getting worse. And if the fall is large enough, will become a contributing factor.
An MSP has only defected from one party to another once before, when Ash Regan left the SNP for Alba last year. (Michelle Ballantyne went from the Conservatives to Reform, but had several months sitting as an independent in between.)
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Reform voters are mostly like Trump voters and nationalist party voters in Europe white skilled working class or lower middle class, work in the private sector or run small businesses and not in the public sector and are not on benefits, want immigration slashed, want a war on woke and hate large global corporations. So why wouldn't they vote for Farage?
Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
It gets better. If oil continues to drop then it gets below the rate at which all this shale oil/gas extraction in US that Trump wets himself about becomes not worth the candle iirc.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
The closest thing we have to Trump over here are pre-schoolers hyped up after eating way too much sugar.
I think it is quite clear that in the minds of a lot of voters Reform does NOT equal Trump.
Farage's spat with Musk was probably quite helpful.
I think it was. Farage can only win a GE with a large slice of the general protest vote and he won't get that as a Trump tribute act. He knows this, wily unit that he is, hence we'll see him tacking 'moderate' but retaining his anti-immigration USP. If he can pull off the pivot, plus retain most of the racist vote with some artful dogwhistle, and the economy stays sluggish or worse, he's in with a big chance of becoming PM.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
Yes there is.
They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesnt Mr Vance believe in the tariff shit too? He certainly believes in backing Russia over the west.
It’s hard to know what Vance without Trump would be like, but the Senate can impeach him first if they so wish, then they’d get Mike Johnson as President. Get rid of him and they get Chuck Grassley, then Marco Rubio.
Several sources tell me a passel of high profile tech and also finance leaders is making a trip to Mar-a-Lago to read Trump the riot act — um talk common sense — to him on the tariffs. Their million dollar donations to the inauguration is turning into billions in losses.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
Worse news for the steelworkers and tertiary workers of Scunny I would have thought. Vauxhall vans closed their doors in Luton last week after 120 years.
Because these industries have been decimated over the decades from cheap overseas labour and Thatcher's law change which has allowed the Chinese and the Indians to own steelmaking capacity in the UK, has ensured when the doors finally close there aren't too many employees left to sack anyway. Through the 1990s and 2000s we rode the wave of exporting steel jobs to Korea, Italy, China and India and benefitted from unprecedented low inflation as a result. It is Labour's fault only by dint of incumbency.
Are you sayig that Labour are historically the party of protectionism? I am sure that would be news to Blair and Brown.
Given the basic market economics, the cheapness of labour and goods and the wholesale Government intervention in China and India to prop up industries financially, the only way we were ever going to compete with those countries in heavy industry in a globalised market was with protectionism.
No, sorry that is wrong. Even with protectionism we were never going to save our heavy industries. This is the fault with globalisation. It might be good for the GDP figures and the profits of the big multinationals but it is crap for the skilled and semi skilled workers. The idea we all get wealthier from Globalisation is on a par with the myth of trickle down.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
Yes there is.
They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesnt Mr Vance believe in the tariff shit too? He certainly believes in backing Russia over the west.
It’s hard to know what Vance without Trump would be like, but the Senate can impeach him first if they so wish, then they’d get Mike Johnson as President. Get rid of him and they get Chuck Grassley, then Marco Rubio.
At least Biden could have a laugh if we get down to Grassley.
Breaking: Russell Brand has been charged with the following offences:
One count of rape One count of indecent assault One count of oral rape Two counts of sexual assault
Met says the charges relate to the following alleged incidents:
- 1999, woman raped in Bournemouth area - 2001, woman indecently assaulted in Westminster, London - 2004, woman orally raped and sexually assaulted in Westminster - 2004-5, woman sexually assaulted in Westminster
Plenty of people were keen to be seen alongside him a decade or so ago. O'Brien also belittled one of Brand's accusers on social media
I think it is. We've all been photographed with people who later became wrong 'uns. To share the reflected shame of someone who later sinned is not reasonable. Particularly 10 years later
The crimes Brand is accused of took place way before Owen Jones and James O'Brien championed him, and boasting about such behaviour was part of his stand up
Brand joking about the crime he is now accused of.
Several sources tell me a passel of high profile tech and also finance leaders is making a trip to Mar-a-Lago to read Trump the riot act — um talk common sense — to him on the tariffs. Their million dollar donations to the inauguration is turning into billions in losses.
If only anyone had any idea that this was what he was going to do.
Maybe one of these finance "leaders" could have gone along to a rally or two where Trumpski told everyone who was listening that McKinley was his hero and guiding star and he was going to replace income tax with tariffs on foreigners and all their devilish wares.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
I do keep cautioning people not to look for the 'point' of Trump. There isn't one.
Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
Breaking: Russell Brand has been charged with the following offences:
One count of rape One count of indecent assault One count of oral rape Two counts of sexual assault
Met says the charges relate to the following alleged incidents:
- 1999, woman raped in Bournemouth area - 2001, woman indecently assaulted in Westminster, London - 2004, woman orally raped and sexually assaulted in Westminster - 2004-5, woman sexually assaulted in Westminster
Plenty of people were keen to be seen alongside him a decade or so ago. O'Brien also belittled one of Brand's accusers on social media
I think it is. We've all been photographed with people who later became wrong 'uns. To share the reflected shame of someone who later sinned is not reasonable. Particularly 10 years later
The crimes Brand is accused of took place way before Owen Jones and James O'Brien championed him, and boasting about such behaviour was part of his stand up
Brand joking about the crime he is now accused of.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
No, William, you are being silly again.
I know Labour have abandoned many of their beliefs in an attempt to become a neo-Thatcherite party, but their core values are as I said.
Arguably Harold Wilson wrote the Trump playbook when he broke international law to impose import surcharges in the 1960s.
Nasdaq enters bear territory defined as an index which falls by 20% or more Tech companies rely on trade and manufacturing in China, so this sector has taken a significant knock from Trump’s 34% on Chinese goods — & China's retaliatory 34% levy on US goods
3 local main type of local by elections yesterday:
St Helens: Reform walked in over the Lib Dems who previously held the seat Neath: Lib Dem gain from Plaid, former not stood there for ages, ward part of Brecon constituency Lincoln: Lib Dem gain from Labour, former were fourth a couple of elections ago
Total Votes cast:-
Lib Dems: 896 Labour 787 Reform 777 Con 145 Green 87
Any portents for May 1st, St Helens result suggest Reform will storm in at Runcorn. However its full impact may be lost as Reform unlikely to make the MOST local election gains or seats.
The Lib Dem gain in NPT was from Labour although the other seat in the ward is held by Plaid.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
Yes there is.
They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesnt Mr Vance believe in the tariff shit too? He certainly believes in backing Russia over the west.
It’s hard to know what Vance without Trump would be like, but the Senate can impeach him first if they so wish, then they’d get Mike Johnson as President. Get rid of him and they get Chuck Grassley, then Marco Rubio.
Articles of impeachment first have to pass the House in order to be sent to the Senate IIUC. So a few more in the other place have to flip too.
Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
The tariffs are not based on Vietnam's tariffs but the relative trade deficit.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
Yes there is.
They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesnt Mr Vance believe in the tariff shit too? He certainly believes in backing Russia over the west.
It’s hard to know what Vance without Trump would be like, but the Senate can impeach him first if they so wish, then they’d get Mike Johnson as President. Get rid of him and they get Chuck Grassley, then Marco Rubio.
Articles of impeachment first have to pass the House in order to be sent to the Senate IIUC. So a few more in the other place have to flip too.
Apparently they’re going to be giving them financial help . Farm subsidies paid by US tax payers to alleviate Trumps moronic tariffs.
So, Trump's copying the Argentinian model, albeit Peron rather than Milei?
Trump is Peron, protectionist nationalism, Musk is Milei, slash the state libertarianism
No.
Milei is implementing a fairly conventional set of structural changes - it's just dramatic in terms of the disaster area that is the Argentine economy. It was a country where inflation was at 250% and you had economic refugees from Argentina in *Peru*.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
Yes there is.
They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesnt Mr Vance believe in the tariff shit too? He certainly believes in backing Russia over the west.
It’s hard to know what Vance without Trump would be like, but the Senate can impeach him first if they so wish, then they’d get Mike Johnson as President. Get rid of him and they get Chuck Grassley, then Marco Rubio.
It's more likely that they'd get some other Republican that could be foisted on Vance as VP, in a similar way to how Ford became President.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
No, William, you are being silly again.
I know Labour have abandoned many of their beliefs in an attempt to become a neo-Thatcherite party, but their core values are as I said.
Arguably Harold Wilson wrote the Trump playbook when he broke international law to impose import surcharges in the 1960s.
Few are as daft as Wilson, although Atlee did the real damage.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
I do keep cautioning people not to look for the 'point' of Trump. There isn't one.
Trump is the "point" of Trump. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
Reform voters are mostly like Trump voters and nationalist party voters in Europe white skilled working class or lower middle class, work in the private sector or run small businesses and not in the public sector and are not on benefits, want immigration slashed, want a war on woke and hate large global corporations. So why wouldn't they vote for Farage?
Because there must come a point when even the most gullible people can see what a disaster such simplistic populist claptrap leads to? Have you forgotten what happened to Liz Truss already?
Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
The tariffs are not based on Vietnam's tariffs but the relative trade deficit.
Because in Trumpthink a trade deficit with a country means you are losing to them. Eg from their relatively harsh treatment we can deduce that mighty Botswana is whupping the hell out of the poor downtrodden USA.
I don't understand how reform isn't tanking totally in the polls. Reform want exactly what Trump is doing. Gut the state, cut all social services, privatise health care, tariffs and trade barriers, cut benefits.... Look where it is going for the USA. And I bet you the ones who would suffer under a reform regime are: low education, low income reform voters... it is so freaking mad. You would have to be mad to vote reform.
The only people in this country with a favourable opinion of Donald Trump are Reform supporters and it applies to about half of them. Quite a stat.
Realistically the closest thing we have to Trump in British politics is probably the Labour party: policies to favour workers over owners of capital, scepticism about free trade, control of borders.
Scepticism about free trade?!
The closest Labour have ever come to that was with the Mosely Memorandum in 1930-31 and, 45 years later, the Alternative Economic Strategy. Both were rightly given short shrift by the leadership.
Otherwise, there was the period in late 1945 when, yes, a siege economy was considered - but only as a last resort in the event of not being able to negotiate what became the Anglo-American Loan. I don't think anyone ever saw it as being desirable!
You'll note that the Wilson government ridiculed Maxwell's "I'm Backing Britain" even at a time when British politics was at its most dirigiste, and the Mélenchonism-lite idea of Progressive Protection didn't get much of a hearing even at the height of Corbynism.
The reality is that Labour have been more consistently pro-free trade than even the Liberals (who wavered in the 1920s & 50s).
Lots of possible answers to this but in a political context, what separates a Six Nations Rugby match from an Arsenal home game or a Sabrina Carpenter concert?
For the Arsenal home game is it Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, City of Westminster and Camden?
As far as I can see, the answer is that Senior Ministers need their own corporate box for security reasons at football matches (Starmer) & pop concerts (Reeves), but not at the Rugby (Rayner). The DPM & her boyfriend appeared to be in with the civvies at Cardiff for Wales vs England.
Burning the house to cook steak. 🥩 The amazing thing is that he thinks it is a win & so is his base.
Golfing now to enjoy his win of crashing equities to boost bonds or to lower bond yields.
Of course they buy this narrative. They don’t own anything. So you can’t lose if you don’t own anything or have anything of meaning to protect. Better to burn it all down so everyone is equally disillusioned.
Wait a minute. Stalin did it. Make Russia Great Again.
Only thing is, there's no mechanism for GOP to get rid of the Orange One, unlike the Tories and Liz...
If 20 Republican Senators want to support impeachment, they'd be rid of him.
Replaced by who? If it’s Vance, does the world want or need that. Having Vance there is as good a reason as any to let him continue and have his ‘legacy’
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They can vote to impeach him. 2/3 of senate required iirc.
There's enough impeachment material to fill Mara-a-lago twice over.
Doesn't sound appealing to me.
And if the fall is large enough, will become a contributing factor.
You are whistling in the wind.
An MSP has only defected from one party to another once before, when Ash Regan left the SNP for Alba last year. (Michelle Ballantyne went from the Conservatives to Reform, but had several months sitting as an independent in between.)
Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
@karaswisher.bsky.social
Several sources tell me a passel of high profile tech and also finance leaders is making a trip to Mar-a-Lago to read Trump the riot act — um talk common sense — to him on the tariffs. Their million dollar donations to the inauguration is turning into billions in losses.
https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social/post/3llynh6uoyk2z
https://plmr.co.uk/theroadto2029/
This time the market will be trying to use the crash as pressure on the government to change direction, or at least sharply slow down.
There is a long way to go.
Given the basic market economics, the cheapness of labour and goods and the wholesale Government intervention in China and India to prop up industries financially, the only way we were ever going to compete with those countries in heavy industry in a globalised market was with protectionism.
No, sorry that is wrong. Even with protectionism we were never going to save our heavy industries. This is the fault with globalisation. It might be good for the GDP figures and the profits of the big multinationals but it is crap for the skilled and semi skilled workers. The idea we all get wealthier from Globalisation is on a par with the myth of trickle down.
@zackzwiezen.com
BREAKING: Nintendo is halting Switch 2 pre-orders due to Trump tariffs. The console is still set to launch in June. But the price might increase
https://bsky.app/profile/zackzwiezen.com/post/3llyo5plftc2b
Maybe one of these finance "leaders" could have gone along to a rally or two where Trumpski told everyone who was listening that McKinley was his hero and guiding star and he was going to replace income tax with tariffs on foreigners and all their devilish wares.
Repeatedly. Night after night after night.
Of course, I suspect you were predicting a decade of Johnson in 2021 too.
Arguably Harold Wilson wrote the Trump playbook when he broke international law to impose import surcharges in the 1960s.
@lindayueh
Nasdaq enters bear territory defined as an index which falls by 20% or more
Tech companies rely on trade and manufacturing in China, so this sector has taken a significant knock from Trump’s 34% on Chinese goods — & China's retaliatory 34% levy on US goods
https://x.com/lindayueh/status/1908177875213119565
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundreds-Beavers-Mike-Cheslik/dp/B0D7JL238L/ref=sr_1_1
Milei is implementing a fairly conventional set of structural changes - it's just dramatic in terms of the disaster area that is the Argentine economy. It was a country where inflation was at 250% and you had economic refugees from Argentina in *Peru*.
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The closest Labour have ever come to that was with the Mosely Memorandum in 1930-31 and, 45 years later, the Alternative Economic Strategy. Both were rightly given short shrift by the leadership.
Otherwise, there was the period in late 1945 when, yes, a siege economy was considered - but only as a last resort in the event of not being able to negotiate what became the Anglo-American Loan. I don't think anyone ever saw it as being desirable!
You'll note that the Wilson government ridiculed Maxwell's "I'm Backing Britain" even at a time when British politics was at its most dirigiste, and the Mélenchonism-lite idea of Progressive Protection didn't get much of a hearing even at the height of Corbynism.
The reality is that Labour have been more consistently pro-free trade than even the Liberals (who wavered in the 1920s & 50s).
https://x.com/tanvi_ratna/status/1907880105369845865?s=61