The neoliberal economic consensus demands that houses be commodified and therefore house prices must stay artificially high, because it was the only asset people could get at the time the slashing an… (View Post)

Our solutions just differ. Right wingers want to do neoliberalism max and unleash the market, despite the fact that that is what got us here, and left wingers want the kind of New Deal policies and s… (View Post)

How so? If you only allow people to come here in a situation of precarity then they become a push down on wages, allowing a race to the bottom. If you allow people to come here but have the benefit o… (View Post)

That the one area where most people have been able to retain any wealth is the one area that hasn't been hacked to shreds should show you that hacking things to shred is bad! Do house prices nee… (View Post)

Again - why must this announcement happen now when Tory conference is in two weeks? What's the urgency? Especially when it annoys members of his cabinet, some of his own backbenchers and lots of… (View Post)