Thanks @westenglandbylines.co.uk for a piece that explains the difference between MMT, as a factual description of the mechanics of government spending, VS MMT economic policy. One is accounting fact and the other is subjective economics and it’s important we know the difference.

Modern Monetary Theory isn’t a potentially risky radical fiscal plan but simply a description of how the British state already spends | Vince Gomez

Morgan McSweeney’s decision to resign, at least in principle, gives the Prime Minister an opportunity for a fresh start. If he can take it. We have two immediate suggestions … sh1.sendinblue.com/3g7ul8i2bglp...

(2/2) ... urgently needs to address defensive constitutional reform. 99-percent.org/projects/con...

Thread (1/2) This is why the UK government ... www.ft.com/content/f869...

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

Yes. That is why we set up our Defensive Constitutional reform project. 99-percent.org/projects/con...

It runs deep and wide bsky.app/profile/then...

And unfortunately, he is not alone. 99-percent.org/how-market-f...

It is very hard to argue ... 99-percent.org/what-is-happ...

Could taxing wealth, rather than income alone, make the system fairer? ⚖️ In the latest blog, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social explores the case for a wealth tax and whether concerns about capital flight are overstated 💸 Read the blog 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment... @99organisation.bsky.social

Unfortunately, Democrats always think that everyone will “play fair” and they plan on that basis. Dems will follow the law even if it means that the Mob gets control of the country; as it has. If the Founding Fathers had taken this approach, there would be no independent America.

Over a month before the attempted insurrection, we wrote an article explaining why the US was particularly vulnerable. This week, we explore what might have happened if Biden had read and acted on our recommendations. sh1.sendinblue.com/3g7qdj62bglp...

But first, did we need to be here at all? 99-percent.org/what-if-bide...

Yes, to me too. We will be looking at what it takes to return from gangland.

Looks to me like the US is firmly in gangland. With a madman in the Whitehouse surrounded by warmongers threatening Iran, the question is: Will the world explode? The world is teetering.

In November 2020, well before the insurrection, we wrote: Will America Explode? And set out some suggested actions, which were not taken. We shall soon be looking at what a similar analysis would tell us today. 99-percent.org/will-america...

Agreed. The whole 10-year plan needs fundamental review. 99-percent.org/scoring-the-...

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Yes, the US has long failed most of its population -- but never as much as now. 99-percent.org/what-is-happ...

Cuba is a Socialist country and one of the poorest in the world suffering under a 60+ year economic blockade by the richest country in the world. Guess which one has better healthcare, life expectancy, literacy, lower infant mortality and every type of crime. It ain't the USA.

After a look across the pond Mark E Thomas from @99organisation.bsky.social urges our politicians to note the warning signs and remedy our flawed democracy. politicsforthemany.co.uk/why-we-must-...

What does a truly progressive tax system require? 💭 @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social (@99organisation.bsky.social) explores how income could be defined when wealth produces continuing gains 📈 Read the latest blog 🔗 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment... 👈

These are important events -- get your MP to attend.

Agreed. And complacency and inaction will let them have it. 99-percent.org/time-to-defe...

Be in no doubt: the far right in the UK - Reform, Farage, Tommy Robinson and their supporters - are looking at what is happening in the US and saying: “That’s what we must have here.”

@mp4stratford.bsky.social Im sure you are already aware of this.

This week’s letter to 99% members focuses on our meetings with MPs – specifically, the Progressive Economics Working Group and the NHS Working Group. sh1.sendinblue.com/3g7m5tu2bglp...

10/ Even if what the US is currently seeing is out of character or contrary to its principles, the fact of the matter is that their system has allowed it. If the system is not fixed, it will allow it again. You may not think this who you are, but it's clear this is what you're capable of.

If Farage is elected he’ll introduce Trump’s policies in Britain. Trump is attempting to incite civil war so he can cancel all future elections. Trump will continue to execute US citizens until he achieves that outcome. Farage will do the same. Wisen up Britain, Make the right choice.

If wealth was distributed like height, the UK’s richest would be kilometres tall 📈 👇 In the latest blog, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social of @99organisation.bsky.social explores why wealth inequality cannot be analysed like other forms of inequality www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment...

And this one adds a little more detail. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.

Yes, he can afford to buy any politician who is for sale, many times over. 99-percent.org/extreme-weal...

Imagine if instead of reading about this in a British tabloid, you were hearing this from your concerned family doctor, who was also masked in an #N95, running an air cleaner in their consulting room, with the window slightly open (in wintry locales). Imagine that. Instead, after 6 years, no...

Agreed. And in the section of the 10 year plan on prevention, COVID gets precisely zero mentions. 99-percent.org/scoring-the-...

Great article, @alexhh.bsky.social. Personally, I call that realism. 99-percent.org/what-is-happ...

He is trying to bring the whole world down ....

Agreed. It is dangerous to normalise this. 99-percent.org/what-is-happ...

Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”

Rumours out of Davos suggesting that Trump will announce a withdrawal of all US troops from Europe. Of course this may just be a case of unfounded speculation. But if it’s correct, the Krasnov operation has been a staggering success.

He cut through the woke.” “He cut through the guff.” Assessment of Trump’s first year by two interviewees on BBC Radio 4’s “Today”. “What do you mean by woke/guff?” The basic and obvious question that the interviewer, Justin Webb, failed to ask. What has happened to “journalism“ at the BBC?

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

2/ If the federal government moves to take control of state National Guard forces without consent, it will be a constitutional crisis — a turning point we must face with clarity, not panic.

As the head of MI6 recently said, it is not just Trump: big tech and Russia also pose real threats. We have a lot to do.

Trump’s extraordinary threats to NATO allies and other threats to our democracies are the focus of this week’s letter. sh1.sendinblue.com/3g7hy4i2bglp...

Not true. Analysis of the economy in the 1950s-70's, a period of Keynsian economics, shows it performed better than before or since. Socialism works.

believe it or not the 1980s also had delayed trains, unemployment, industrial strife, turds in rivers, crime, riots, underperforming schools some things have improved and some things have got worse Britain isn’t perfect but I don’t trust the people talking it down for their own populist purposes

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them