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  • Gordon Brown:

    It’s all there in Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss and Kwarteng: the pound can collapse, borrowing and mortgages can soar, pensioners can freeze, kids can go hungry, as long as the economy is ripe for venture capitalists freed from regulation and, ideally, tax.

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    But even venture capitalists know they don’t get rich on their own. Public investment - in education, infrastructure, skills, health - is vital to create growth. It’s time this government remembered that age-old truth: when the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

  • But even venture capitalists know they don’t get rich on their own. Public investment - in education, infrastructure, skills, health - is vital to create growth. It’s time this government remembered that age-old truth: when the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

    Which is why no other Conservative government in Europe are persuing such batshit and outdated policies. Because it doesn't work. You cannot drive growth from the top.

  • The top earners (I imagine) already have a reasonably lavish lifestyle and buy what the hell they want and eat where they choose, so ensuring they have even more money results in exactly what trickling down? Their tears of laughter at the rest of us struggling???

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