When I worked at Marxism Today, my desire to earn a living proved to be somewhat déclassé.
26 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality Tags: far left, Labour standards, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, living wage, progressive left
Some of the kidnapped ODA activists have been freed and can speak out at last!
23 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: activists, anticapitalist mentality, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, do gooders, expressive voting, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, mass kidnappings, ODA, overseas aid, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Guardian
The role of the spread of capitalism and globalisation in massively reducing extreme poverty just gets a mention, begrudgingly, but it’s better than nothing From a newspaper of record of the Left over Left.
@jeremycorbyn should welcome #toriesforcorbyn as shy Labour voters coming home to the long-awaited hard left policies
23 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in constitutional political economy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: British Labour Party, British politics, expressive voting, Leftover Left, rational irrationality, shy Labour voters
Jeremy Corbyn has done it. The working hypothesis of the far left everywhere is if the Labour Party were to adopt hard left policies, they would win many more votes.
The new votes include shy Labour voters parking their vote with the Tory party pending the call home to a true Labour Party.
They are parking their votes with other parties because they are fed up with a middle of the road Labour Party, such as the Blairite Labour Party. They are withholding their vote as punishment until the Labour Party returns to its roots and adopts hard left policies.
Our vision is of an economy that works for all, provides opportunity for all and invests in all. #jeremy4leader http://t.co/59Gk9AN7Xf—
JeremyCorbyn4Leader (@Corbyn4Leader) July 22, 2015
Rather than accept that their day has come, the left of the Labour Party is deeply suspicious of Tory party supporters wanting to join the Labour Party in anticipation of voting in hard left leadership in their current leadership election. What’s going on?
What seems to terrify the Labour Party is its old dream coming true: a large number of Tory party voters switching their support to Labour and joining the Labour Party because it might adopt hard left policies and a hard left leader who makes Michael Foot look like a pussycat.
Labour party members, please think before you vote for Jeremy Corbyn gu.com/p/4aqvd/stw http://t.co/U5hz02ahgd—
Comment is free (@commentisfree) July 22, 2015
What is more jarring than the fear of the Labour Left having its dreams come true is the Left of the British Labour is not showing against any insight into the genuine enthusiasm that the Tory party has for Jeremy Corbyn winning the election as leader of the Labour Party
There is no misdirection here or double play. The Tory party wants Jeremy Corbyn to be elected leader of the Labour Party.
Time for a re-run of this classic? http://t.co/Pwqyn00cQo—
James Bartholomew (@JGBartholomew) April 14, 2015
The Liberal Democratic party must see their resurrection coming in the form of Jeremy Corbyn as do UKIP in terms of making inroads into working-class labour electorates.
There are left-wing and fairly left-wing people who do vote for the Tory party and the LDP, but there’s not that many of them, and overall they only make up about 15% of the British electorate, and a small part of the left-wing vote not voting for left-wing parties.
It would seem more reasonable to follow the median voter theorem and go for those in the centre because there are plenty of them and only minor modifications of your platform are required to win their votes.
Anti-establishment candidate with fringe views draws huge crowds in sure-fire guarantee of electoral success http://t.co/P7waxqUXrR—
Alex Wickham (@WikiGuido) August 03, 2015
Why is the far left chasing with these shy Labour voters when there are plenty more middle of the road voters willing to vote for them in 2015 in the right circumstance?
…while the average UKIP or Tory voter is well to the right of Labour there are many Conservative and UKIP supporters who are in the centre ground and whose votes Miliband cannot afford to write off. For example, nearly four in ten UKIP supporters and 16% of Conservative voters place themselves on the centre point or to the left of centre.
The 35 heroes of #toriesforcorbyn
23 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: British Labour Party, British politics, Leftover Left
MPs nominations for Leader of the Labour Party – 35 MPs required
| Burnham – 68 |
Cooper – 56 |
Corbyn – 35 |
Kendall – 40 |
|
Ian Lavery |
Jess Phillips |
Jon Trickett |
Tristram Hunt |
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Steve Rotheram |
Diana Johnson |
Clive Lewis |
Phil Wilson |
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Rachel Reeves |
Khalid Mahmood |
John McDonnell |
Stephen Timms |
|
Dan Jarvis |
Sharon Hodgson |
Michael Meacher |
John Woodcock |
|
Michael Dugher |
David Hanson |
Ronnie Campbell |
Mike Gapes |
|
Debbie Abrahams |
Shabana Mahmood |
Diane Abbott |
Wes Streeting |
|
Owen Smith |
Steve Pound |
Kelvin Hopkins |
Margaret Hodge |
|
Karl Turner |
Helen Goodman |
Richard Burgon |
Toby Perkins |
|
Emma Lewell-Buck |
Helen Jones |
Dennis Skinner |
Alison McGovern |
|
Yvonne Fovargue |
Kevan Jones |
Grahame Morris |
Stephen Doughty |
|
Kevin Brennan |
Chris Bryant |
Frank Field |
Siobhain McDonagh |
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Luciana Berger |
Seema Malhotra |
Kate Osamor |
Ann Coffey |
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Barbara Keeley |
Kate Green |
Cat Smith |
Gavin Shuker |
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David Crausby |
Vernon Coaker |
Dawn Butler |
Pat McFadden |
|
Yasmin Qureshi |
John Spellar |
Jeremy Corbyn |
Ivan Lewis |
|
Lisa Nandy |
Paula Sherriff |
Chi Onwurah |
Simon Danczuk |
|
Andrew Gwynne |
John Healey |
Sarah Champion |
Chuka Umunna |
|
Lucy Powell |
Daniel Zeichner |
Emily Thornberry |
Stephen Twigg |
|
Graham Jones |
Ian Austin |
Sadiq Khan |
Emma Reynolds |
|
David Anderson |
Jim Cunningham |
Huw Irranca-Davies |
Jonathan Reynolds |
|
Conor McGinn |
Karen Buck |
Louise Haigh |
Gisela Stuart |
|
Anna Turley |
Lyn Brown |
Jo Cox |
Paul Flynn |
|
Keir Starmer |
Steve McCabe |
Imran Hussein |
Nick Smith |
|
Pat Glass |
Liam Byrne |
David Lammy |
Chris Evans |
|
Stephen Hepburn |
Virendra Sharma |
Rebecca Long-Bailey |
Kevin Barron |
|
Paul Farrelly |
Judith Cummins |
Margaret Beckett |
Jenny Chapman |
|
Bill Esterson |
Ruth Cadbury |
Jon Cruddas |
Jim Dowd |
|
Peter Dowd |
Marie Rimmer |
Gareth Thomas |
Fiona MacTaggart |
|
Harry Harpham |
Andy Slaughter |
Tulip Siddiq |
Steve Reed |
|
Rob Flello |
Geraint Davies |
Rushanara Ali |
Joan Ryan |
|
Rachael Maskell |
Fabian Hamilton |
Rupa Huq |
Barry Sheerman |
|
Justin Madders… |
Geoffrey Robinson… |
Andrew Smith |
Angela Smith… |
Source: Who’s backing whom and who did endorsers vote to be leader in 2010? | LabourList.
Maggie Thatcher’s Rawlsian critique of socialism on her last day as Prime Minister
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, Rawls and Nozick Tags: Leftover Left, Margaret Thatcher
The top 400 income tax returns in the USA
20 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
The top 0.000003% in the US
by @VisualEcon http://t.co/eHmUrWzp6X—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 16, 2015
Maggie Thatcher on the Greek crisis
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, budget deficits, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Greece, growth of government, Margaret Thatcher, size of government
Capitalism and The Great Fact in China
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, fall of communism, Leftover Left, transitional economies
As China grew freer economically, its poverty rate fell. buff.ly/1KohOxS http://t.co/OpaxOzNdNs—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 29, 2015
Global poverty is in free fall – what does Oxfam have to say about what caused this?
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, ODA, overseas aid, Oxfam, professional activists, professional do-gooders, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts vox.com/2015/7/13/8908… http://t.co/cBbN4L0dqF—
Vox (@voxdotcom) July 13, 2015
Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected President of Russia this Day 1991
10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, collapse of communism, Russia
On 10 July 1991, Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected President of Russia. #OTD http://t.co/8462T7mCJB—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) July 10, 2015
The left-wing solution to Greek bankruptcy
10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), income redistribution, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Eurosclerosis, expressive voting, Greece, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, sovereign default
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