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Obama's example for the UK
This is from the Guardian today: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s economic problems (Report, 21 January). Like its £375bn UK predecessor, it will buy government bonds from banks and, as happened...
Money no obstacle for Europe: Green QE and fair tax funded infrastructure can replace austerity’s ‘road to ruin’
The Green New Deal Group launched a new report today on the need for Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing and the collection of money owed by tax cheats as the way forward for Europe, not a form of QE that is already causing economic nightmares and damage in the...
The Chancellor's give-away
This letter was published in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction, the pre-election debate should radically change direction to one that has at its heart a...
The urgent need for green quantitative easing
The following press release has been issued by Caroline Lucas MP and the Green New Deal group this morning. There are more details on green quantitative easing here: When George Osborne stands up this Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement he will find himself...
A green infrastructure initiative for jobs
The letter was in the Guardian this morning: Simon Jenkins is right to call for quantitative easing to be used to boost economic activity (We should cash-bomb the people, not the banks, 27 November), but wrong to suggest it should be spread to everyone...
If Miliband is serious about climate change QE is the answer
This letter was in the Guardian today: It was heartening to hear Ed Miliband say in his speech that tackling climate change is a passion of his and that solving it could be a massive job-generating opportunity (Report, 24 September). The inevitable question of how to...
People's QE is preferable to helicopter money
This letter was in the Guardian today: A new form of quantitative easing to fund green activity would strengthen the economy not only of the UK but also of the rest of Europe, were it to be introduced continent-wide. This approach would be preferable to the proposed...
A National Plan for the UK
The purpose of this report is to advance a much-needed debate about how to move the UK out of the counterproductive politics of austerity and into the age of the Green New Deal. This is a matter of utmost urgency. If it isn’t introduced rapidly, we are likely to enter...
Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy.
Sunday 8th September 2013 5 years after Lehmans’ collapse: ‘National Plan’ to detoxify UK economy Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy. Plan would end zero-hour contracts, remove hidden bank subsidies, cancel PFI, end tax avoidance...
Press release: 2013
Almost five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shockwaves around the global financial system, the Green New Deal Group, whose groundbreaking ideas were taken up around the world in 2008, publish a ‘National Plan for the UK’ that would shift the nation from the politics of austerity and rapidly-growing inequality to the age of the ‘Green New Deal’
Obama's example for the UK
This is from the Guardian today: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s economic problems (Report, 21 January). Like its £375bn UK predecessor, it will buy government bonds from banks and, as happened...
Money no obstacle for Europe: Green QE and fair tax funded infrastructure can replace austerity’s ‘road to ruin’
The Green New Deal Group launched a new report today on the need for Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing and the collection of money owed by tax cheats as the way forward for Europe, not a form of QE that is already causing economic nightmares and damage in the...
The Chancellor's give-away
This letter was published in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction, the pre-election debate should radically change direction to one that has at its heart a...
The urgent need for green quantitative easing
The following press release has been issued by Caroline Lucas MP and the Green New Deal group this morning. There are more details on green quantitative easing here: When George Osborne stands up this Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement he will find himself...
A green infrastructure initiative for jobs
The letter was in the Guardian this morning: Simon Jenkins is right to call for quantitative easing to be used to boost economic activity (We should cash-bomb the people, not the banks, 27 November), but wrong to suggest it should be spread to everyone...
If Miliband is serious about climate change QE is the answer
This letter was in the Guardian today: It was heartening to hear Ed Miliband say in his speech that tackling climate change is a passion of his and that solving it could be a massive job-generating opportunity (Report, 24 September). The inevitable question of how to...
People's QE is preferable to helicopter money
This letter was in the Guardian today: A new form of quantitative easing to fund green activity would strengthen the economy not only of the UK but also of the rest of Europe, were it to be introduced continent-wide. This approach would be preferable to the proposed...
A National Plan for the UK
The purpose of this report is to advance a much-needed debate about how to move the UK out of the counterproductive politics of austerity and into the age of the Green New Deal. This is a matter of utmost urgency. If it isn’t introduced rapidly, we are likely to enter...
Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy.
Sunday 8th September 2013 5 years after Lehmans’ collapse: ‘National Plan’ to detoxify UK economy Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy. Plan would end zero-hour contracts, remove hidden bank subsidies, cancel PFI, end tax avoidance...
Press release: 2013
Almost five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shockwaves around the global financial system, the Green New Deal Group, whose groundbreaking ideas were taken up around the world in 2008, publish a ‘National Plan for the UK’ that would shift the nation from the politics of austerity and rapidly-growing inequality to the age of the ‘Green New Deal’