I am the person behind the second most-debated figure of the Labour leadership race – the £93bn corporate welfare bill. I write “debated”, but this is too generous to some of those who have passed judgment on the work.
Once Jeremy Corbyn had begun campaigning on the basis that some of the £93bn could be saved, proper analysis and discussion gave way to myth making and conjecture, and I didn’t recognise many of the arguments that were attributed to me.
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I’m disappointed that some publications got basic things confused in their rush to write off Corbyn and my research
The unemployed have ‘no rights without responsibilities’, whereas corporations have no such strings attached
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