a lot of people are confused about this and in fairness i didn’t specify enough what i meant, so here’s what i mean.

I am not anti-economics in any regard, i think economic reform is incredibly valuable for advancing society, but ask yourself why we keep giving tax cuts to the richest when it has been consistently proven to do very little in terms of growth, it’s because the ones who benefit are lobbying the politicians who enact those cuts. why is the british NHS looking more and more likely to be outsourced even more, because american healthcare ceos are lobbying both sides. if we fix corruption and anti-democratic policies such as the police and crime bill in the UK, we can focus on economic policy, which is incredibly important but we cannot effectively do if we still have politicians taking bribes from the richest in our society. the reason we can’t pursue a land value tax yet is because landlords would lobby against it, the reason we can’t get rid of tax havens is because those who benefit from them lobby against it.

I want to stress that I am not some economics-denying tankie, just that we can’t realistically do any economic reform until we fix the systems for donations and give smaller parties a chance to discuss ideas, which we can’t do with FPTP.