Tagged: UK economy

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain’s New Migration Model: Fewer Brains, More Bills

Britain is cutting net migration by shutting down the very routes that pay for its public services. Skilled workers and foreign students are being pushed away, young British professionals are leaving, and the gap is filled by low wage labour and anonymous capital. This is not control of borders. It is the managed hollowing out of the tax base and skills base.

Opinion / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain’s Productivity Collapse And The Rentier Trap Martin Wolf Will Not Name

Martin Wolf now concedes that Britain is stuck in a low productivity, high inequality trap that threatens democracy itself. Yet when the argument reaches the point where rentiers must actually be confronted and capital controlled, he retreats into the language of caution. This long read maps the gap between his diagnosis and the regime he still cannot bring himself to break.