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The ‘magic money tree’/’maxed-out national credit card’ LIES

Liars: both David Cameron and (now) Keir Starmer have voiced the falsehood that the UK has credit limits imposed elsewhere – it doesn’t. There IS a magic money tree, though – despite their claims to the contrary; it’s called the Bank of England. You won’t find this mentioned by the mainstream media, though – instead you have to come to Vox Political, Another Angry Voice, and Mainly Macro (among others).

Simon Wren-Lewis, over at Mainly Macro, has written a scathing critique of politicians like Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, who are copying the Tories by saying there is no “magic money tree” and that the government has “maxed-out the national credit cards”.

For clarity: there is a magic money tree. It’s called the Bank of England.

And it is impossible to max-out the national credit cards with the amount of debt the UK currently has.

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Professor Wren-Lewis explains:

Keir Starmer, in commenting on the recent Budget, said “Britain in recession, the national credit card maxed out, and despite the measures today, the highest tax burden for 70 years”. The analogy of maxing out the nation’s credit card has been repeated by other Shadow ministers. Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, has joined many Conservative ministers in saying there is no ‘magic money tree’.

Anyone who knows any macroeconomics understands that these analogies are false. The nation does not have a credit card with an externally imposed credit limit that it can ‘max out’, and the UK government does have a magic money tree because it can create money.

Imagine, for example, if we forced politicians to be more precise. Rather than claiming that the government had ‘run out of money’ and ‘maxed out its credit card’, they would instead have to say that the government had almost hit their self-imposed borrowing limits.

Rather than saying you couldn’t promise to spend this or reduce that tax because there is no magic money tree, politicians instead would need to say that the government could create more money or borrow more, but that would add to aggregate demand which would risk higher inflation and so force the Bank of England to raise interest rates.

Why do politicians say there is no money tree at their disposal? Because they don’t like telling the truth, which is that they don’t want to break their fiscal rule, or they don’t want the additional spending or tax cut adding to aggregate demand and leading the central bank to raise interest rates. That is a trade-off where many voters might take a different view, so it is much easier for them to say there is no money. It is a way of disguising a political choice, and not being honest about these choices.

So ‘there is no magic money tree’ is normally said by Chancellors or Prime Ministers who want an easy excuse for not spending money or cutting taxes. It is a straightforward deception to give politicians an easier life, and therefore it is difficult to defend its use.

The phrase ‘maxing out the nation’s credit card’ is more often used by politicians attacking the borrowing record of others. Yet it too suggests politicians have less choice than they actually have. In this case it perpetuates the idea that governments can only borrow so much, and that they are currently hitting that limit.

This is nonsense. There is a limit to how much UK governments can borrow, but it is way above levels of debt ever historically recorded. (Debt was 2.7 times GDP after WWII.) [1] But it sounds more dramatic to say a government has maxed out its credit card than to say it is leaving insufficient headroom to meet its own fiscal rules.

The use of these false analogies probably wouldn’t matter too much if we had an informed and informing media that was quick to correct these attempts to mislead. Unfortunately the complete opposite is the case. Because much of the media views macroeconomics as too complex and boring for its viewers, it laps up these incorrect attempts to relate fiscal policy to household budgets.

Sometimes this media environment gives politicians little choice but to follow. But that is not the case with phrases like ‘no magic money tree’ and ‘maxing out the nation’s credit card’. No one is forcing politicians to use these phrases. Instead it is their own choice to do so. If they know they are false analogies that just mislead the public they shouldn’t use them. If they don’t know that they are false, I’m afraid that is even worse.

So, when Keir Starmer said those words in response to Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, somebody in BBC/ITV/Sky News or the newspapers should have immediately called them out as lies.

But they didn’t.

This means the media are misinforming the electorate. This in turn means that most of the voting population, at the next general election, will be basing their decision on false information.

That is inexcusable. There should probably be a law against it. But there isn’t, because the law-makers benefit from the falsehoods.


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Charlotte Church answers accusations of Israel’s propagandists

Reckless hate is a terrible thing – not least because it leaves the hater as vulnerable as those they attack.

So it should be with those who have attacked the singer Charlotte Church for supporting Palestine on the march in London last Saturday (March 9, 2024).

They’ve called her every name under the sun, apparently, in a flailing attempt to discredit her and what she did.

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But this time they are dealing with someone of higher quality, as is clear from her reply:

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Jeremy Corbyn IS suing Nigel Farage. Did he take Vox Political’s advice?

Jeremy Corbyn: apparently he is suing Nigel Farage to protect the reputation of the Project for Peace and Justice.

Message from Jeremy Corbyn:

I have asked my lawyers to take the first steps in commencing legal proceedings against Nigel Farage, following a highly defamatory statement about me.

We are a movement for peace — and we cannot stand by and let these disgusting and malicious lies go unchallenged.

(The movement he mentioned is the Project for Peace and Justice.)

Did he take This Site’s advice?

No, I can’t claim that. It would be hugely conceited to think that Mr Corbyn has even noticed Vox Political‘s existence. But this seems an appropriate place to thank the many of you who visited This Site’s previous article on the subject, after Mr Corbyn’s announcement.

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But it would be nice to think the arguments I put forward had reached him somehow.

For clarity, after Nigel Farage suggested that Mr Corbyn believed “the Jews” are running the world, I stated:

Mr Corbyn’s attitude is that, if it isn’t hurting people other than himself, he’s big enough not to worry about it.

The problem with that is that it harms his supporters, who are also smeared with the same allegation; they may be said to be supporting an anti-Semite.

The Peace and Justice Project is, by its nature, primarily run by supporters of Mr Corbyn – so it is reasonable for him to consider that an untrue statement about him – if left unchallenged – will harm it and everybody involved in it as well.

It will be interesting to find out what Farage does now. My personal belief is that hell apologise and (I hope) pay an amount of money to the Peace and Justice Project.

If he doesn’t, I hope Mr Corbyn takes him for every penny he’s got.


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Right-wing extremists are trying to exploit claims of anti-Semitism and racism. Don’t let them

Dis-influencers: they try to flood the media and social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

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Is this the new theme of UK politics – projecting one’s own behaviour onto others?

This Writer has already mentioned it in connection with the behaviour of BBC reporters at the Rochdale by-election count.

But it also seems to be gripping our political classes, who are trying to get us to believe that Jewish people across the UK are living in fear of Nazi-style persecution – when it is they who seem desperate to impose it on all of us.

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So we are being spoon-fed reports the like of which Aaron Winter discusses below:

He’s right on the button. The article states:

Jewish people in Britain say they are considering leaving the country as it “feels like Nazi Germany”, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents since the 7 October Hamas massacre in Israel.

Physical attacks, threats and accusations of “slaughtering babies” are among the incidents suffered by terrified residents, after recent figures showed more than 4,000 reports of antisemitism last year.

The number of Islamophobic incidents in the UK has also soared.

How many of these alleged incidents have been investigated by police? Where are the figures showing how many of them were found to have actually taken place? And why have those figures not been reported?

Answer: because none of them have. They are simply claims that have been made and then bandied about by pressure groups like the so-called Community Security Trust, in order to heighten fear among the public and boost support for their own political ends.

CST is getting £54 million of public money from Rishi Sunak, on the basis of nothing more than hearsay.

The Independent reports two alleged anti-Semitic incidents – but one-sidedly. Only the claims of the alleged victims are put forward and we hear nothing from the people they accuse. That is not balanced reporting.

And other Jews are furious:

The Independent also reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election win as a “dark day” for the UK’s Jewish community – but consider this:

Meanwhile, other Jews are suffering abuse and intimidation from the self-appointed representatives and organisations claiming to represent all Jews in the UK, who want to prevent their fellows from expressing any support for the people of Palestine who are suffering a genocide at the hands of the government and military of Israel, the country that presents itself as the nation-state of the Jewish people:

The knock-on effect is that organisations speaking up for the persecuted Palestinians are themselves being persecuted – here in the UK.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has echoed the comments of Lord Walney, formerly the Labour MP John Woodcocksuggested that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign should be de-platformed – its voice silenced among the media and political classes:

Woodcock (or Walney if you like) left Labour under a cloud after one of his former staff members said he had sent her inappropriate text messages between 2014 and 2016. The allegations were never fully investigated.

This Writer agrees. It seems improper to trumpet this man’s allegations about others while ignoring the fact that he has unexamined allegations against himself. How can we believe anything he says?

Also resurfacing as a consequence of the claims of anti-Semitism is Islamophobia; if anti-Semitism is said to be rising because of the way Israel has carried out its assault on Gaza, then it is also being claimed that Muslims are acting in solidarity with their fellows in that land – with violence; and that has triggered a wave of anti-Muslim feeling.

We see it in the resurgence of the long-debunked trope of “no-go” areas in our towns and cities, where it is claimed nobody is welcome who is not a Muslim. It isn’t true – but notice that politicians representing these areas seem to be conspicuously absent from the debates:

Open Democracy puts its finger on what is really happening:

The fears about antisemitism, particularly in relation to such marches and solidarity, are being stoked by political figures and the media. This was evident when former home secretary Suella Braverman called ceasefire protests “hate marches”.

We need to … address fears; challenge misconceptions, misrepresentations and politicisation; and fight antisemitism itself, instead of targeting and delegitimising critics of Israel and the fight against other racisms, occupation and genocide.

The author, who is clearly Jewish, expresses joy at Jewish participation in pro-Palestine activities:

Something that gives me hope, however, has been the solidarity expressed by communities around the world – among them Jewish groups such as If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, Na’amod, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and Jewdas.

On the one hand, our presence in these movements as Jewish people can help offset accusations that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. On the other, many of us are accused of being self-hating, kapos, Judenrats, and not Jewish anyway.

And JINOs, apparently.

And, of course, opposing Israel does not become antisemitic just because someone who is not Jewish does it.

The accusation of genocide directed at Israel is framed by critics as antisemitism or even Holocaust minimisation. This not only serves genocide denial and spits in the face of the promise ‘Never Again’, but also corresponds to the redemption of the Nazis and the actual minimisation of the Holocaust.

So instead of the UK becoming like Nazi Germany because of anti-Semitism alleged against people who want to see Palestine supported before Israel destroys it completely, it is becoming like Nazi Germany because of the behaviour of the Zionist organisations, media outlets and politicians who are supporting Israel.

They are simply projecting their own abhorrent behaviour onto others – making it seem that it is their opponents who are the wrong-doers and not them.

What is to be done about it?

The first choice is obvious: you simply don’t believe what the pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian mob are saying, from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer down to the keyboard warriors on the social media.

Beyond that, it should be our responsibility to do to them what they so keenly wish to do to those of us who are trying to present the facts: we should do what we can to remove them from public life.

That is most easily done with politicians. We’ve seen the upset that George Galloway’s election as MP for Rochdale has caused – and there is a general election coming.

Keir Starmer’s blind support for Israel, in the face of video evidence of that country’s military slaughtering children, has been particularly nauseating.

There is an excellent candidate standing against him – and for peace in Gaza – in his Holborn & St Pancras constituency.

Everybody there should vote for Andrew Feinstein. Those of us in other constituencies should look for the candidates who also oppose the right-wing, pro-Zionist dogma that we’re being force-fed, and do our best to get them into the House of Commons too.


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A new scandal for BBC political reporting: C***gate!

Fiction: the BBC reporting of the Rochdale by-election seems to have been tinged with the biases of the reporters, who referred to members of the public in the most derogatory ways possible.

The latest wheeze in politics seems to be ‘projection’ – claiming that somebody else is behaving inappropriately while behaving in exactly that inappropriate way oneself.

So the media at the Rochdale by-election count seem to have been keen to attack members of the public for rudeness while actually barging them out of the way and insulting them.

That is what the following video, featuring Newsnight editor Nicholas Watt, seems to be telling us:

Here’s The Canary‘s analysis of it:

We should take a dim view of this behaviour. The media exist to report the news, not to slant it towards their own political views while abusing the rest of us. For example, This Writer would never have described a member of the public in the terms used by the cameraman in the clip.

I look forward to hearing an explanation – possibly accompanied by resignations – and I hope we don’t have to wait long.

Chris Williamson schools timid BBC interviewer on the meaning of genocide

Talking straight: Chris Williamson.

Congratulations to former Labour MP Chris Williamson for putting a BBC interviewer straight about what’s going on in Gaza in no uncertain terms.

Speaking after fellow Workers’ Party politician George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election, Chris – who is a personal friend of This Site – expressed his horror that the Labour Party was “facilitating” and “supporting genocide” by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza.

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The interviewer – possibly at the behest of some unseen producer’s voice in his earpiece – moved to silence this shocking revelation of the facts, and… it did not go well for him:

Good for you Chris. You are absolutely right.

Nobody who supports genocide deserves any consideration from right-minded, decent people. And that includes the leaders and MPs of the Labour Party.


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US airman dies after setting himself alight, to ‘no longer be complicit in [Gaza] genocide’

This story should have been top of the news agenda all day.

A serviceman in the US Air Force walked up to the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, doused himself in flammable liquid and set himself alight, saying that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide”. He has since died of the injuries he sustained.

That man was Aaron Bushnell. He was saying US support for Israel in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza makes every member of the American armed forces complicit in the murder of more than 30,000 people – half of them children, and in the horrific injuries inflicted on around 70,000 others.

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That’s not even mentioning the wholesale destruction of Gazan buildings and societal infrastructure.

Some have called Mr Bushnell’s mental health into question. It is possible that his mental equilibrium was disturbed by events in Gaza. Who could blame him, as a member of the military-industrial complex that is Israel’s biggest supporter and therefore the largest supporter of the genocide?

For a more general appraisal of this man, let’s have the words of one of his colleagues:

Here’s footage of what actually happened. Be warned: you may find this extremely disturbing:

Notice that even in a situation where the only harm this man was committing was to himself, a member of Israeli embassy staff still drew and aimed a gun on him:

In the video clip above, you can hear someone shouting, “I need fire extinguishers, not guns!” But the man wielding the gun still doesn’t leave or put it away.

This is the last Facebook post he published:

The event attracted almost no coverage from TV news crews – at first. Here’s a summary of what happened in the States, with a fair opinion of why:

There was a report on it in Good Morning Britain…

But as I type this, the article on the BBC News website appears to have been up for only an hour or so. It’s 8.50pm (GMT). Was it withheld until the amount of material on the social media made it impractical to stay quiet any longer?

Oh, but Israel seems to have had something to say about it, even if the western news media did not. Try to hold your bile down:

Self-immolation has been a known form of protest since at least 1963, when Thích Quảng Đức set himself alight in Saigon, in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

It is also a form of protest that has been subjected to news blackouts in the recent past.

This Site has reported on the failures of UK news media to report on such protests – by benefit claimants whose mistreatment by the government had pitched them into depression.

I wrote, then, what I’ll repeat now:

We are left with evidence that those with the ability to bring this horror to the attention of the public have been deliberately covering it up.

… To prevent the kind of social change we saw in South Vietnam, Tunisia and other Arab states, prompted by the same trigger?

If so, it would be grotesquely irresponsible of all those involved – they would be colluding to allow persecution of the extremely vulnerable to continue.


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Lyndsay Hoyle has triggered a wave of Islamophobia by politicians. Media stoke it

Lee Anderson: he’s known to be a big fan of the fellow on the left who said women who wear the burqa look like “bank robbers” and “letterboxes”, so it should be no surprise that he’s a raving Islamophobe.

Here’s how politicians create hysteria from nothing – cheered on by the media.

There’s no evidence that people who support Palestine, or Muslims, or anyone is threatening MPs.

There’s no evidence that Islamists are dominating our streets.

But already this false claim is being used to fuel demands for a new clampdown on protest that could turn the UK into a draconian police state.

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Read the following and then tell me if I’ve missed anything.


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Changes are coming to Vox Political!


This site will soon have a new look, with a bright new theme – if This Writer can make it work they way I want it.

This means I have to divide my efforts over the next few days – and that in turn means I won’t have as much time to concentrate on what’s happening in the world as I usually do.

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In turn, this means the next few articles are likely to be little more than re-presentations of social media posts I’ve found interesting enough to pass on, or quotations from articles by other social media sites that I think you should read.

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Israel tells troops to stop uploading video of themselves looting Palestinians’ property

The most IMmoral army in the world has finally received a wake-up call to the fact that filming its troops committing acts of depravity and posting the images online is not good for its image:

For the last four months the world’s social media feeds have been full of pictures and videos of Israeli soldiers looting Palestinian homes and carrying out depraved attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Israel has finally seemed to cotton onto the fact that this depravity is not good for their propaganda efforts, and makes a mockery of their laughable claims to be “the most moral army in the world”.

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We’ve seen Israeli soldiers posting videos of themselves vandalising and targeting Palestinian homes for no strategic purposedestroying civilian infrastructurerummaging through Palestinian women’s underwearwrecking children’s toysdestroying food, and larking around with the property of Palestinian civilians they’ve displaced and killed.

Now it seems the Chief of Staff of the Israeli occupation forces Herzi Halevi has issued an edict warning Israeli soldiers not to film “revenge videos” and stop otherwise documenting their war crimes.

The order comes a little late though, it seems:

This is one instance when “better late than never” won’t ring true.

But what will the Israeli government do about its private citizens who have been trolling Gazans with mocking video clips?

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