How to fix Britain, with Will Hutton | The News Meeting podcast

In the nineties Will Hutton wrote about the role of government and the free market post-Thatcher. Now, after more than a decade of Conservative-led government, he’s written a new book called ‘This Time No Mistakes’. In this bonus episode he tells James how it might influence Labour’s thinking on issues like Britain’s relationship with the EU and economic reform.
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[@johnl7710]

I will give it a read I am sure it will be a good guide to the future direction we should take Hutton is always worth listening to

[@takizakura123]

English independence is long overdue.

[@colinroach7815]

Is the the UK Infrastructure Bank publicly owned ? @22:10, Mr. Hutton should first speak about Public Ownership first, capturing some of that Total Money Supply of the UK, especially some of the Banking Revenue that the Private Bankers owns most of.

[@danielwebb8402]

"Austerity" of.... public sector being a higher % GDP every single year since 2010 than in any single year from 97-07.
So not austere
"Yeah they spent more. But I wish they'd spent more on X." Isn't a definition of austere.

[@rednaxelA11]

Aging and increasing population requires increasing taxable gdp otherwise your public service spending as % of gdp increases even without politically choosing to increase public spending via policy changes. You can redirect public expenditure to create austerity if you are incapable of providing taxable gdp growth, which is what the post labour governments have done through ideology and failed to do through incompetence

[@beatonthedonis]

Hilarious that you can't connect the dots between cutting public spending at a time of sinking demand and failure to grow GDP.