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@shashj@lesbreeding1@MazzucatoM Hey Les - State ownership/ partial ownership is NOT Communism. Governments can involve themselves in running companies and industries for the betterment of citizens without strangling innovation.
Read Prof. Mariana Mazzucato for compelling evidence.
@afneil@andyburnham Why not make it a condition of defence contracts to take X thousand youths off the dole if they want their bid to be successful?
I think you need to re-orientate your style of journalism to be more positive about thinking that rises free of illusory dilemmas.
@afneil@andyburnham
Andrew (Neil) ... I'm going to bring-in "trickle-up" economics.
Also, instead of giving handouts to everyone, I'm going to make it a condition of North Sea drilling licences that applicants pay the interest on loans for poor people to buy solar systems.
@mr_xray101@ClaireCoutinho Actually, instead of being taxed & used for universal giveaways, windfall profits could be exempted from corporation tax when used by the energy producers to eg provide interest free / subsidised loans for people to purchase solar system for their homes.
@ArthurAssendune@ClaireCoutinho I think her point was that certain MP's are happy to vote without bothering to inform themselves about what impacts are likely to arise and, instead, just engage in making tendentious comments in a vain attempt to hide their ignorance.
Good job no-one on here's like that, hey?
@Thedarkdogfox@ClaireCoutinho Solar system efficiency actually drops when the weather gets hot so max output capacity is never as high as on a sunny day in spring.
@NiohBerg@AngelaRayner Hey Ange - how long will it take for the media twonks to turn on Andy aided & abetted - no doubt - by a horde of labour MP's with no concept of loyalty & too much time on their hands when they discover AB has no more an idea of what to do than me ... or you, for that matter?