tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post6197673293263532066..comments2024-01-31T15:10:55.111+00:00Comments on Transition Quaker: Faith in Politics?Craig Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201061939693242954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-87700872197484189422017-12-16T18:45:51.258+00:002017-12-16T18:45:51.258+00:00Although many of West & Hull’s proposals are u...Although many of West & Hull’s proposals are unexceptionable and can be – and, indeed, are – upheld by persons of all parties or none – the Living Wage, for example – there is little on where the money is to come from beyond cutting the pay of senior council staff and, by implication, taxing The Many Not The Few, to use divisive Corbynite language. There is no understanding that the biggest engine of inequality is the public-sector deficit, which puts tax-payers’ money in the pockets of the banks without it ever hitting the sides. It has recently been reported that Islington is one of the worst places for women to live in the country, which makes one wonder rather impishly whether West & Hull and their interventionist nostrums are part of the problem rather than part of the solution.Mark Frankelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04240476821058582804noreply@blogger.com