The right wing Zionist ADL has defended Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at yesterday’s inauguration rally.
The head of the ADL said he wanted to get rid of TikTok – it’s certainly been defanged.
Will it ultimately become a joint venture with the US government ?
As Professor Finkelstein said in the previous post – as there is no leftist opposition, there is no need for Trump to hide his corporatist pretensions.
Growth at all costs
TTIP and the Deregulation Bill were natural extensions of the original deregulation and privatisation push from the 80s. Though the right wing anti Keynesian counter insurgency started well before. By the time the slashing of red tape was referred to in 2015 there was arguably little left to cut.
When Trump came in in 2017 he said for every new regulation brought in he wanted two old ones gotten rid of (click here)
2836-onein-oneout-statement-new-regDavid Cameron proposed the same idea in 2011 and tried to impose it on the European Union at the same time as he agreed to push for TTIP with President Obama.
Now that Chancellor Reeves is going for a deregulation push she is mimicking Trump. Asking Regulators to push for growth is precisely what the deregulation bill already set out to do in 2015.
Does she realise how much danger she is going to put Britain in?
The Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority is her latest casualty
Those who say Starmer has done little since coming have a point. On his side one could argue that he needed to wait for the US election before knowing what direction to take. Clearly he is going to aim to be a 51st State. In which we lower regulation in order to compete with Europe. But allow for riskier financial, pharmaceutical and agricultural innovation which will have winners and losers.
We are bringing a former Amazon exec to chair the CMA – you couldn’t make this up.
