Zack's got another column in The Guardian. In which he gets to stand tall against the likes of Carole Malone and Piers Morgan. This is the nearest he gets to policy.
In the past weeks, I’ve had many interactions with journalists that have been positive, but it’s striking how often commonsense policies are treated as if they’re extreme. From our plans to bring water into public ownership, to supporting rent controls and an end to the “war on drugs” – I follow the evidence from the UK’s failures, and examples from across the world of how to do things better.
I can see why he'd want to reclaim common sense from the right, but it's the same sort of rubbish. Not a minute of work has been done on any of these things, someone's just told him they do something that sounds nice somewhere else, so we should do that. The wealth tax, where there's considerable evidence from across the world that these don't work, is justified simply because it's popular.
Does anyone really say denationalizing water is unthinkable anyway? I've not seen that. I've seen people question the cost. Shouldn't Zac do a serious budget on that sometime? There are some people who say it should cost very little, admittedly, but others who don't say that. He'll just quote the ones who agree with him. I suppose Zac's not going to do a serious budget because there's nothing in it for him. There's never anything in it for an opposition politician. See John Smith's Shadow Budget.
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