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Tim Nichols

Opinion: We can’t refinance the economy from the meagre incomes of the poorest, only the wealth of the richest

By Tim Nichols | Sat 3rd December 2011 - 5:24 pm
It’s not the snow, the royal wedding or the eurozone crisis, it’s the lack of demand. We are probably already in recession now thanks to the major deflationary shock unleashed on the economy by the Coalition’s austerity cuts. And we still have the real hit from the eurozone slowdown on its way next year…

The Autumn Statement did little to depart from Plan A, the economic equivalent of letting blood. Businesses desperately in need of customers can only look on in despair as the disposable incomes of families are reduced by wage stagnation, welfare cuts and hundreds of thousands of public

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  • cim
    @David Allen I think the key - for electoral communications, at least - is to skip the description of the process entirely and go straight to the outcome. Yo...
  • David Warren
    The last sentence sums up it for me. We are getting squeezed out in the majority of constituencies and the beneficiaries of the progressive protest vote are the...
  • Alex Macfie
    "those on the left don’t tend to see individuals but see people as members of identity groups," so do many on the Right, using "identity groups" to divide peo...
  • Jana
    My son-in-law is a police officer. He tells me that there is no point arresting shop-lifters as they always get bailed and will be shop-lifting again within the...
  • Jason Connor
    Well done for putting in the effort in an inner London constituency, and showing how it can be done. There have been similar issues in Greenwich where the rulin...