Only took 13 years...

[BillyStubbsTears]

...but it seems someone in the economics section at the BBC has finally realised that Austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity.

https://mobile.twitter.com/andyverity/status/1397198270380793857

Well worth a read. This is the clearest commentary on economics to come out of the BBC in years.

[GazLaz]

...but it seems someone in the economics section at the BBC has finally realised that Austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity.

https://mobile.twitter.com/andyverity/status/1397198270380793857

Well worth a read. This is the clearest commentary on economics to come out of the BBC in years.

** Tweet Deleted **

[BillyStubbsTears]

Wow! I wonder if he's had his fingers rapped for pointing out that Austerity was never an economic decision, but was about the politics?

[BillyStubbsTears]

OK, the actual BBC webpage article is here.

https://mobile.twitter.com/andyverity/status/1397165145042870280

The deleted twitter thread went into much more detail about why Austerity was a political decision. He'd obviously either decided or been told to delete it. Feels like a perfect example of BBC bothsidesism. Don't, whatever you do, present anything without giving the alternative point of view. Even if the alternative point of view is illogical batshittery.

As Paul Krugman regularly points out, Bothsidesism leads media organisations to headlines like "Shape of the Earth: Opinions Differ" because you have to give flat-earthers the right of reply and it isn't the job of the media organisation to filter out shite arguments.