dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 3hThe next question is, why did less than 1% of party members vote on this motion? 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 3hThe next question is, why did so few members choose to vote and should there be a minimum number of votes needed for a motion to become party policy? 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 4hThe problem is that you now have 230k members and this policy was decided by the votes of less than 1%. Having 1 member 1 vote is great but members shouldn't have to travel to the conference to exercise their democratic right. 220
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 5hYes tax the FF companies to put them out of business but the government doesn't spend the tax it collects so spending money to help people to electrify their homes and transport (to help with the cost of energy) is something that the government can always do. #MMT 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 8hFor the UK government that creates all the money it spends the cost is not the issue. What matters is the availability of the resources needed to achieve net zero. #MMT 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 8hSurely, Bailey must know and understand the #MMT description of government finances so why is he spouting this neoliberal nonsense? 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 8hIf they were wanting to power England they would invest in wind, solar and tidal and improved grid infrastructure. Investment in new nuclear is about providing the skilled workforce and supply chains that the military need but can't afford. theconversation.com/military-int...theconversation.comMilitary interests are pushing new nuclear power – and the UK government has finally admitted itCivil nuclear energy maintains the skills and supply chains needed for nuclear subs and weapons. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Burnham has no understanding of how government finances work. He still thinks that he has to 'find the money'. He doesn't. The government creates all the money it spends. What he does have to find is all the resources (people, equipment, buildings . . .) a national care service will need. #MMT 001
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Remember how much influence UKIP had on the Conservatives without any MPs. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The issue is so simple that the government must want to be misled by FF lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comLabour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis showsLobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’ 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The problem is the £billions in subsidies that Drax gets on the basis of it being carbon neutral (which it isn't). 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 07/10/2026International carbon accounting means that it is the responsibility of the country where the wood is sourced to account for the cabon added and removed by cutting and regrowing trees. The importing country can assume that the source is neutral. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It would not be classed as carbon neutral if it had to source all of its wood from the UK because of it consumes wood much faster than forests can regrow. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A simple question for you: where does money come from? #MMT youtu.be/x3TJFoQWCHA?...youtu.beFinding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/EconomicsYouTube video by Giant Pictures 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We need our politicians to watch this now so they can stop the harm that their neoliberal ideology is doing to most of us. #MMT 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Drax is only classed as carbon neutral because it sources all of its wood from abroad. 110
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026At very high humidity you do sweat but it doesn't evaporate do does not cool you. It just drips off you. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Green Party is no longer green! It has been infultrated by the scientifically illiterate. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Unfortunately, they don't seem to have told Zack about this because he is still talking about taxation as revenue to fund government spending. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Climate change is caused by global HEATING. 010
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The government doesn't spend any of the money it collects as tax. That money is destroyed/deleted. All government spending is newly created money and it can create as much as it needs. Money is never the limiting factor for the government. #MMT 130
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The government creates new money every time it spends and it can create as much as it needs. If the water companies are available for the government to buy then the government can always afford them. The government could do what Attlee did in 1948 and pay by issuing bonds. #MMT 050
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wish the Green Party would learn #MMT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T SPEND ANY OF THE TAX IT COLLECTS! 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Efficiency is only an essential aim for profit making private companies. Publicly owned services can prioritise providing high quality service over efficiency. 010
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nobody said anything about litter picking. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The problem is that the UK hasn't electrified as quickly as some other countries. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Your comment shows that you don't understand #MMT so again I recommend that you watch the film in which the people that developed MMT give a very clear description of the basics. youtu.be/x3TJFoQWCHA?...youtu.beFinding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/EconomicsYouTube video by Giant Pictures 010
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How is it better to have an unelected group deciding monetary policy that seem determined to create a recession? 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No. That inflation is the result of external supply shocks and the relatively high BoE interest rate. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The government is creating new money every day. It does it every time it spends. #MMT 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We need measures to reduce the number of flights. We need to tax air fuel. We need to tax frequent fliers. We need to ban private jets. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The government can only create new money if there are resources available for it to buy. It is the process of spending that creates new money. Any #MMT aware government would consider both available resources and inflation when making spending decisions. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If the UAE halt UK investment there is nothing stopping the government creating the money to fill the gap and produce publicly owned infrastructure. #MMT 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Are you suggesting that the private sector has made a better job of running the water industry that the state? 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Selling bonds is simply a way of removing money from circulation as tax does. Governments that create their own money as they spend also have to remove and destroy money. #MMT 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Surely, any unemployed doctors could be put to good use working in the NHS. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026By making full use of the resource available in our economy the government would be increasing the productivity of the country. How is it that you think that would be a bad thing? 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Any involuntary unemployment is unused resources that the government could create the money to make use of (a job guarantee). #MMT 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Very simply, the government doesn't spend any of the money from the sale of bonds in the same way as a bank doesn't spend any of the money deposited by savers. The sale of bonds simply swaps one type of money for another that bears interest. #MMT 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026To cause inflation the creating of money would have to exceed the reources that are available to buy. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The changes in the interest paid on government bonds happens when the price of the bond changes in the 2nd hand market. It doesn't change the amount of interest the government pays on the bond. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#MMT is not a set of policies. It is an accurate description of how government finances work and have worked for decades. What MMT does do is dispel the lie of the household model that has been used by neoliberals restrict what government does. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#MMT doesn't say that state spending can be limitless. It says that the limits on what a government can do are the resources available to buy and inflation not a limited amount of money. Perhaps you would benefit from finding out a bit more about MMT. 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Same here but not quite as extreme. Both Labour and Conservatives have forced markets and competition into health and education because of their neoliberal ideology. 000
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You need to watch this . . . youtu.be/x3TJFoQWCHA?...youtu.beFinding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/EconomicsYouTube video by Giant Pictures 100
dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The government doesn't need the money from the sale of bonds. It is the banks and other financial institutions that need the bonds. The prevailing neoliberal myth has the story the wrong way round. #MMT 010
