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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Of course, it's hypothetical. My point isn't about their specific budget (which I agree was an insane budget), it's about how the financial industry is able to manipulate the entire economy when it doesn't like a budget. We are nominally a democracy and they shouldn't have that kind of power. Truss, Kwarteng and the crash are the small story. The big story is that politicians don't have the courage to present a budget of any kind that challenges the vested interests of the financial industry. I want to see a budget that creates a fairer/more competitive market and an increase in standards of living for everyone by rolling back the massive accumulation of assets by the financial industry. But I won't see that budget because the financial industry would stand to lose by it. The economy would "crash" because we have essentially let them become the economy. Truss and Kwarteng's fiscal policy might have been worse than the crash they provoked from the financial industry - we'll never know. Personally, I'm glad they are gone because I thought it was a stupid budget. But I don't want future good policy to get killed at birth in the exactly the same way. The current Labour government are smart enough to know this, which is why they are pursuing growth instead of fairness. But it's ultimately a waste of time because the proceeds of any growth will end up in the financial industry where it will get used to further entrench their position at the expense of everyone else.

TLDR: We need a budget which is radical enough to address our problems, which will crash economy as it stands and allow it to be replaced with a better one, which is based on fairness and real assets instead of finance.