Give parliament a vote on quantitative easing

If one thing characterises British politics in the post-Thatcher era, it is a serial addiction to avoiding questions about the structure of our economy.

On the NHS, the state pension and social care, politicians of all parties have preferred half measures and quick fixes to long-term solutions, keeping flawed systems ticking along in a perpetual state of ‘just-about-managing’.

Of course, in practice, endless obfuscation makes these structural issues worse.

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