#356: Hostage Nation Part 2 – Anything we can do, we can afford – with Jamie Driscoll of Majority
From the Hostage Nation paper:
“The first and most fundamental duty of a civilised state is the safety of its people.
Not just safety from overseas adversaries, or crime in the street. Economic security. A bill you can pay without going overdrawn. A house you can afford before your children have children of their own. A job that lasts long enough to plan around.
Britain guarantees none of these. Not for want of money, or land, or people who know how to build. Our nation has all of that.
For forty years we have outsourced that security to the global marketplace. We locked ourselves in a room and posted the key to a trading desk in New York. British government policy subservient to global winds.
They call it living within our means. We call it Hostage Nation.”
This is the second part of our conversation with Jamie Driscoll, former Mayor of Newcastle city region, founder of Majority and now Green Council for his old Monument ward. He’s also one of the authors of the Hostage Nation paper quoted above that lays out how we can shift our current economy from one that’s in hock to the Vigilante Bond Markets to one that supports people and planet.
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