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John O’Flaherty's avatar

Super dooper. Everything is now solved. Of course it’s not because the people to carry out such plans as these barely exist; and they shan’t until the civil service is completely reconstituted; and that won’t happen until the education system is reborn; and that won’t happen until the political system gains control of the civil service…..and so on. Not impossible but almost entirely so.

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Duke of Harlesden's avatar

Any meaningful change should be centered around a campaign to consciously collapse the pound and move into sound money monetary policy. We could therefore demonetise housing, meaning we do not need to import millions of foreign humans or prevent any new development just to keep the pound afloat.

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Bruce Crichton's avatar

"Technocratic statism disguised itself with a free-market flesh suit under the previous Conservative governments, growing the size of the state while protecting its rentier constituencies at the expense of productive industries. Fossil fuels, steel, cement, and concrete are all down. Building new houses, roads, railways, data centres, and power stations is all but impossible. British Steel’s closure by Chinese investors is just the latest chapter in our economic malaise." - economic nationalism is also a form of statism.

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Bruce Crichton's avatar

Economic nationalism is a form of socialism and has precisely no virtues.

Ancient economic fallacies are not a solution to any problem.

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