@alexhallhall Wld like to agree but what does it mean to say intentions are good when (1) we repeatedly do things that have predictably (and predicted) dire consequences and (2) those actions are primarily motivated by national self-interest? Surely everyone "means well" in their own eyes?
@AdamLBrown3@oldtrotter Agree, I just think some opponents wilfully misunderstand it and use their mischaracterisation to discredit even the standard macro conclusions
@oldtrotter Great thread thanks. And agree on flexibility amongst officials, I think I was using the term treasury orthodoxy as a lazy shorthand for the specific incarnation in Michael's 8th tweet i.e. the (politically-driven) focus on deficits above other factors
@oldtrotter Fair. I guess my concern is those MMT extremists give the FT and IFS etc an excuse to lazily paint anyone departing even slightly from treasury orthodoxy as living in a fantasy world. A better quality of economic debate should cut both ways.
@chrispople @MEATLiquor If that was opening night I'm in there somewhere! But I got to the front just as my girlfriend arrived to join me and they told us we'd have to go to the back so we left :/
@Peston Please stop saying fiscal black hole, you know full well it's a highly politicised CX framing designed to present austerity as inevitable. You can do better than simply repeating it.
@andyverity Finally a different perspective from the BBC! Meanwhile everyone else is doing the Chancellor's PR for him in making austerity seem inevitable...
@instagram my wife's account was put in a "memorialized state" for no reason three days ago. She is very much alive and would like it back. She's reported it but your team hasn't resolved it. Can you help?
@British_Airways could you confirm whether it's possible to claim a refund (not voucher) for a cancelled flight departing tomorrow? I don't mind a delay, just need to know that it's possible. Website seems to say if I don't claim voucher before check in closes I may get nothing.