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Name: David Drinkwater on Mar 11, 2010Comments: The campaign to promote the idea that cuts are the only way to avoid 'the end of the world as we know' is quite remarkable. It is given first shot by all the media and must be one of the post successful ploys to brainwash not only the public but politicians from all parties as wellFlag
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Name: Jean Mercier on Mar 12, 2010Comments: I agree with G. Hodgson's suggestionFlag
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Name: Michael Edwards on Mar 12, 2010Comments: As an economist working on urban and hosuing questions I consider we must press as hard as possible for expanding public investment, for reasons stated in the petition but also because cuts in the social wage now will add insult to injury for all those at the bottom of the society.Flag
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Name: Jairo J Parada on Mar 13, 2010Comments: This hysteria is spreading not only in the UK but in the developing nations too. It is a disease that´s happening every where,based on wrong ideas about the rol of public finance leaving aside its countercyclical function.Flag
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Name: Garth Frankland on Mar 13, 2010Comments: End the soiety based on exchange value and move to use value.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Duncan Scott on Mar 15, 2010Comments: But,we can also suggest how cutting Trident would take us part/all the way to an effective short-term response whilst a Green New deal is fought over.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2010Comments: More people working in a more sustainable, strategic and rewarding way. Intensifying speed and competition will eventually implode: perhaps leaving a few people very wealthy. Politics is about preventing implosion.Flag
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Name: Sjaak Pronk on Mar 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Robert McMaster on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: James I. Sturgeon on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Sebastian Fischer on Mar 16, 2010Comments: I fully support the concept of a New Green Deal to replace the unsustainable business-as-usual- response of all the main parties.Flag
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Name: Clifford Singer on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ada Blair on Mar 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Wilding on Mar 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Brid Coady Weekes on Mar 19, 2010Comments: please stop any notion of cutting public services. Create real jobs. Stop Trident and wars. This would get the economy out of the hole. Regards,Flag
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Name: Stephen Young on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: John Nicholson on Mar 20, 2010Comments: Strongly agree with above. there should be more emphasis on econ growth & increased taxes on the 'super rich', non-doms , lord ashcroft etc as ways of cutting the deficit. (I've never wholly accepted the laffer curve). To reduce govt spending with a VERY fragile recovery would almost certainly produce a further recession.Flag
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Name: Peter Stevens on Mar 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dr Dave Neary on Mar 22, 2010Comments: Time to move beyond neo-liberalism and the 'third way' to a more sustainable and socially just society. I'm more than content to go for: Wellbeing for all - socially, physically and psychologically Prevention before cure - tackle avoidable risks to health Grow the core economy - the social dimensions of time, wisdom and reciprocity are what really matter Carbon for social justice - green new deal jobs, a no-brainer! Sustainable public services - must take the lead in limiting carbon footprint Value what matters - the three economies of people, planet and markets need to be recognised and accounted for so we can make political choices The current situation (crisis is such an overused word although it did feel like on in 2008!) is a tremendous opportunity for a paradigm shift. It may be gradual but it can be achieved.Flag
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Name: Mary Lyons on Mar 22, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Neil Chadborn on Mar 22, 2010Comments: Green Growth pleaseFlag
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Name: Phoebe Spence on Mar 22, 2010Comments: The way "budgets" and "growth" are approached is so limited, not related to real life. So many underlying issues are not addressed. New Economics Foundation has done useful work on thisFlag
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Name: JUdith Ryser on Mar 23, 2010Comments: Shame that the Labour Party is not embracing unambiguously the need to support the economy and make an effort at reform and innovation, to start with of the broken political system, to prepare our society for better days with more social cohesion.Flag
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Name: Kari Polanyi Levitt on Mar 23, 2010Comments: Congratulations on your initiative in combatting Deficit Hysteria! - KariFlag
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Name: Alexandros Papadopoulos on Mar 31, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Robin Simpson on Jun 1, 2010Comments: I am an independent consultant in which capacity I work for Consumers International which is a global NGO of consumer organisations based in London. Our British members are Which? and Consumer Focus (previously Energywatch/National Consumer Council where I used to work). I also work with the World Bank and OECD. I agree with everything you have said and I am currently trying to get the European consumer organisations to view the probable deficit reductions as a breach of faith vis a vis those who depend on the state for financial services. Vast sums of money have been spent on rescuing the banks and other Financial Services and the major beneficiaries of that have been the banks themselves and their (relatively) well off customers. The resultant deficit is now about to be paid for by the poor as they are disproportionately dependant on the state for their income as beneficiaries. Yet the guarantees for the banks as provided by the state for the last two years are exactly analogous to the guarantees provided to social security funds in France or Germany for example, which operate semi-autonomously but underwritten by the state. There is a terrible double standard at work here, reinforced by the new British government explicitly targetting the social security budget as a means of reducing the deficit. I am also working on the merits of the social security system as an automatic economic stabliser. I wish you good luck best wishes Robin SimpsonFlag
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Name: Pascal Petit on Jun 24, 2010Comments:Flag