My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard | Polly Toynbee
We live by how we feel – an idea that orthodox economics gets wrong and Andy Burnham’s first budget looks set to get right.
- These may not shift the dial yet on 40 years of neoliberal economics, but they show the way he’s heading.
- Bankers have barely begun to repay the billions they cost the country after 2008.
- This walking good-vibes maestro is spreading a confetti of small good deeds.
We live by how we feel – an idea that orthodox economics gets wrong and Andy Burnham’s first budget looks set to get right.
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Eyecatching everyday things – from capping bus fares to that small but resonant sum of £45 VAT on average off electricity bills – get people talking, alongside bigger plans for a national care service, electoral reform and a possible journey back to the EU.
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