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Hard to believe that it's almost 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or that Jeremy Corbyn's response to it was to run an article in the newsletter he edited headlined 'No cheers here for a united capitalist Germany'
Update: @JohnAshmore has found this gem from @SeumasMilne for the @CapX weekly briefing (which you can sign up to here capx.co/subscribe)
@JohnAshmore @SeumasMilne @CapX I love the juxtaposition of 'greater freedoms in the workplace' and 'OK, yeah, the Stasi'
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Am digging a bit more deeply into @the_tpa's fascinating polling on public attitudes, and was struck by how many people say they're doing OK financially - 49% very or relatively comfortable, 36% doing pretty well, only 15% claiming to be struggling taxpayersalliance.com/new_polling_fr…
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It's worth pointing out here that this shift, while dramatic, will actually make Britain a 'normal' nation in terms of infra spending. Public investment in UK has been low for a long time
As has investment more widely - hence why we at @CPSThinkTank have pushed for action to incentivise business investment via full expensing
(There is also a point here that as a services-based economy we need less investment, but even on that score we are undershooting, as these final charts show...)
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Will be writing (much) more about this later, but today really was a huge moment in terms of competing visions of what the British state/economy looks like (1/?)
The @sajidjavid speech, for example, represented a genuine departure not just from the austerity period, but almost 40 years of state infrastructure investment (or rather lack of it)
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