Cities and Austerity (Deceased)

Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA). Used to blog at We were killed by austerity in 2022.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

Our centre spent years rejecting "austerian realist" propaganda from those slashing public services in and beyond UKHE. It is important to be clear about the grounds for rejecting them @ucu, @timeshighered, @GdnUniversities,
@CHavergalTHE, @UCU_DMU (1/9).

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

Bond markets can destroy an economy in its democracy. What then is to be done about the bond markets? Are they eternal, like gods? What influence can states and publics have over them? How do rising powers like China deal with them?

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Honestly, bond markets do not "go into hissy fits" - they can destroy an economy and its democracy. Makes me sick to my stomach that politicians don't understand this after Greece and Truss. Even Lenin understood bond markets!

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@noah_mwamfupe YES!

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@noah_mwamfupe YES!

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

Extraordinary how this pope is taking religion back from the blasphemous depravities of the American right.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

You heard it here first (or last). Any reflections @paulmasonnews?

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

@JoshuaYJackson If you don't think KS will advance the class struggle you're possibly not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist viewpoint

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

The rich are worese than useless. Boris Johnson is exhibit A in the case for socialism. Shake him and his kind - real-life magic money trees - and suddenly everything *would* be free, or at least much, much cheaper. There is no financial black hole that the rich can't fill.

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

You ridiculous woman, nothing is free!

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@cashandcarrots @mikegalsworthy It is still first in the league tables for Demon farting. #1

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@johnredwood Because the EU is shit. As you said all along sir. Rule Britannia!!

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

Owning a 600K property makes you *very* wealthy compared with the vast majority of people. If you have a 600K property, that probably isn't all you have either. So yes. Lower the Inheritance tax threshold. Great idea.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

If Rachel Reeves thinks someone with a house worth £600K is “wealthy” they why doesn’t she have the guts to lower the inheritance tax threshold? At present only 4% of Estates pay IHT.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes There is always a magic money tree for the rich. Labour won’t do it, but the rich need a sustained fiscal hammering.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes Millions of people now rely on food banks, which scarcely existed before the global financial crisis. That is a direct consequence of austerity. This government is awful, but that was Tory policy for 14 years. Time to take back what has been stolen.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes That wasn’t the question under discussion.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes Again, we are talking about different things. Universality is a simple principle. Much easier to implement than means testing.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes It isn’t popular with elites, that is for sure. But let’s face it, mainstream economics has failed the country entirely.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@KirstieMAllsopp Thank you for the reply Kirstie. Do you mean that you believe @MichaelRosenYes is entitled to his pass, but should have shelled out on this occasion? Or, are you making a more substantive point about universal vs means-tested entitlements?

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@hellosunshine52 @KirstieMAllsopp @MichaelRosenYes Universalism is very simple. Means testing is complex, stigmatising and regressive.

[Cities and Austerity (Deceased) @CURA2015]

@KirstieMAllsopp Focus on the issue. Means testing has been regressive and reactionary. Universality is the basis of social solidarity. If you are rich, pay more tax. Simple.