I spent 30 years thinking about 'agenda setting power' as structural power (inspired by Susan Strange & Stephen Lukes)....
Labour's economic reasoning is a classic case of structural power of the wealthy & a cabal of economists' a narrow agenda of potential policy choices is set as normal, while those options (now) outside this agenda are rendered as non-sensical, impossible or irrational.
Call it 'neoliberalism' (I won't), call it corporate capitalism, but Labour are in its thrall!
#politics
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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