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 (DIR) Post #AkeVPqC8x2jwltm53Y by wellingtonrock@mastodon.social
       2024-08-05T08:58:54Z
       
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       'Reeves says: “If we can’t afford it, we can’t do it.” John Maynard Keynes once observed: “Anything we can do we can afford.”' Britain didn’t vote Labour just to get a new iron chancellor | William Keegan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/04/britain-didnt-vote-labour-just-to-get-a-new-iron-chancellor
       
 (DIR) Post #AkeVPs3M2gtkXDg5dQ by wellingtonrock@mastodon.social
       2024-08-05T09:00:01Z
       
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       'Moreover, because we are not in the EU, we cannot take advantage of the enormous scope that would be available if we still had access to the European Investment Bank, whose lending usually leads to about three times the investment financed by the initial loan.'
       
 (DIR) Post #AkeVPtuD9elyHRPof2 by wellingtonrock@mastodon.social
       2024-08-05T09:00:22Z
       
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       'The economic damage wrought by Brexit continues. Our investment and growth prospects would benefit enormously if Starmer and Reeves abandoned this policy of “no return to the customs union, single market or freedom of movement”. I repeat what I have said before: the Labour manifesto commits it to removing unnecessary barriers to trade. But Brexit is the most formidable barrier of all!''