Labour’s genuine battle will be to challenge the same undead orthodoxies it failed to kill off after the financial crash of 2008 – and the elite consensus that keeps them in placeOver and over again during the Labour conference this week we will hear a gargantuan lie. It will be lathered on during news bulletins and discussions live from Brighton,daubed across countless newspaper columns. Rather than obviously sounding like an untruth, it will be expressed in a hundred shop-worn homilies and tatters of moment-hand advice. That Jeremy Corbyn, or we’ll hear,he must get slicker at presentation. This John McDonnell, he needs to convince taxpayers of his trustworthiness. Related: John McDonnell offers different economic tack without sounding scary The certainties that had underpinned Britain’s economic model lay shattered and no one knew what would happen nextIn a catastrophe instigated by financiers, or the experts brought on to discuss what should be done were financiersContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com