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Right, I am going to call it. The UK will Never Leave the EU. The Leave campaign team are now the "Not so fast team we didn't really mean it " probing ways to wiggle out of this mess.
Right, I am going to call it. The UK will Never Leave the EU. The Leave campaign team are now the "Not so fast team we didn't really mean it " probing ways to wiggle out of this mess.
If there's a splintering of the left, I just hope we get PR - unless there's a simultaneous merging of parties too.
What happens on the right will depend on what kind of relationship the Tories end up choosing with the EU. (Will we still call Ukip a right wing party if it goes after the old Labour heartlands?)
I've been struggling to think how Labour could break up as there are so many competing wings of it now that it's no longer appealing to anyone with much force. With his critiques of austerity, Corbyn should be appealing to the heartlands - but his Islingtonian trendy causes and identity politics prevent him from reaching them. On the other hand, he's no Blairite either.
I think the Lib Dems would be open to some major realignment - they have so little to lose now.
And to think this all happened just so David Cameron could put the whole EU question to bed for a generation
Your suggestion that the gain in value made by a property developer is precisely balanced out by the decline in value of all other properties is a textbook example of a zero sum game. The 'game' considers just the interaction of those parties in a closed loop - not external factors such as inflation.
Are you suggesting that it is impossible to assign a value to an intangible asset? Are you suggesting valuable assets are not 'wealth'?
Perhaps you have a particularly unusual definition of the word 'wealth'. I think most people understand the concept of the creation of wealth by the addition of value.
I think that's been fairly obvious ever since funereal Boris Johnson and undertaker Michael Gove had their more-subdued-than-a-crypt victory press conference.
The real trick now for them is how to end up losing the leadership election so that somebody else ends up with a faceful of omelette, then slowly rebuild a career on the back benches.
Thing is, it's not just the Blairites resigning. There are MPs to the left of the party in the mix. Even Pat Glass who was only put in post 2 days ago has resigned. The complaints are much the same: performance, leadership skills, ability to reach out to the county. It's a fundamental misreading to put this all down to Blairites.
it isn't zero sum as, like you say there are other factors such as inflation (you mentioned) and increase or decrease in population. But the constant, the only thing that is always present, is that overall debt always exceeds overall money supply.
As for intangible assets...any value assigned to them is directly proportionate to a physical thing further down the line. That physical thing is where the value is.
Take a £1m domain name....if you don't have it pointing to a site it creates no wealth. It's cost £1m...there was a transfer of money, but no creation of wealth.
Bedtime for me. I feel like we've made progress here today. Same time next week?
Correct. It's not zero sum - because the wealth created does not come from diminishing the wealth of others! The scenario you described would be zero sum. The standard example is cutting a cake - if I get more, you get less. If I bake another one, you don't get less as a result.
I have a (tangible) painting on my wall. It is worth more than the cost of materials and labour used to produce it. Wealth has been created.
Take your domain name example - let's say an (intangible) website is created and we employ photographers to take (intangible) pictures of cats and we charge for subscriptions, because we provide value for our cat-loving subscribers. We gain a million customers paying £10 per year. We can now value the company at maybe £50 million despite having virtually no tangible assets. Our cat lovers have got more than the value of their subscriptions (or else they wouldn't subscribe) and we have got a company worth £50 million. Enormous wealth has been created from nothing.
I don't think we're getting anywhere actually but I'm fairly certain my understanding of the creation of wealth is closer to something that would be generally accepted.
I suppose it depends how we define Blairite. Obviously the PLP are nearly all to the right of Corbyn, but I'm not sure that makes them all Blairites. There have been quite a few who might be termed 'Corbyn sympathisers' who have resigned.The pressure is coming from the Blairites, its a pre-planed event, not just because of the EU result, these PLP have been looking for opportunities for a long time, almost all the PLP don't want Corbyn, like @gimpydog said and they did not even expect him to win either.
Chilcot report will be out next month, all most all the PLP voted against the Iraq inquiries, in the future when more information comes out about this coupe on Jeremy Corbyn, you will see Alastair Campbell at the centre of it.
Corbyn want UK to leave EU but its Labour party policy to remain in the EU, campaigning to stay in the EU is a compromise from him. He still did what he was asked to do but media were shy away from him. Even Angela Eagle state this fact just two weeks ago.
The media always paint Corbyn as a bad person, things like our friends from Hamas or friends of the IRA etc even though they know all is intention is to have a peaceful resolution.
Majority of the current PLP are Blair people, with Corbyn as the leader, they cant do what they want.
Before Corbyn, labour was already supporting all the austerity, the reason given by the acting leader then was the public vote for Tory, so the public want the cut, all that change as soon as Corbyn became leader.
Corbyn did exactly what he has to do as opposition leader, which means challenge the government policies and force a u-turn if required, he did that, even when he cant over turn in the commons, he use the house of lords.
I hope Corbyn stays taken on his challenger because what the PLP are doing is total bullying.
I suppose it depends how we define Blairite. Obviously the PLP are nearly all to the right of Corbyn, but I'm not sure that makes them all Blairites. There have been quite a few who might be termed 'Corbyn sympathisers' who have resigned.
I like Corbyn. I've admired him for years for his stance on international issues and I totally understand what you are saying about his views on Hamas, IRA etc which have largely been taken out of context and embellished. He advocated speaking to Sinn Fein when everyone said we must never speak to them. He opposed apartheid when the British government supported it. He championed gay rights when the government, the media and public opinion were all against it. He has been the very definition of 'progressive' for decades and that's why I was genuinely excited when he became leader. The difficulty is that it's become clear he is not only out of sync with his MPs (a debilitating problem whichever way you look at it), he's also, if we're being honest about this, highly unlikely to win a general election (for several reasons, both personal and political) and a general election may be sooner than we think. Labour needs to be strong and united now more than ever, and that's why, while the student in me feels a certain respect for him holding firm, I think ultimately the Momentum crowd and the £3 members are inadvertently causing great damage.
I've got mixed feelings on the challenge by Angela Eagle. Mostly I like her soft-left politics, an impressive performer at the despatch box, a unifier. Not the sharpest out there I admit, but capable. I don't think she'll be successful in her leadership challenge in fact it will just make Corbyn's supporters rally round him even more. If they were hoping to replace Corbyn, the Tom Watson 'wait for him to fail' approach might have been better.
Those on the remain side who felt they didn’t recognise their own country when they woke up on Friday morning must spare a thought for the pensioner in Redcar or Wolverhampton who has been waking up every morning for the last 30 years, watching factories close and businesses move while the council cuts back services and foreigners arrive, wondering where their world has gone to.
Many of those who voted leave will undoubtedly feel that they have had their say after years of being ignored. But they are beginning to discover that they have been lied to. Even when it feels that there is nothing left to lose, it turns out that things can always get worse. And even when it feels like nobody tells you the truth, it turns out that some factions of the elite can and will do more damage to your life than others.