At all for this hour news wise but if youre looking for more head on over to our website r. T. Dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in. I mention are times you were going underground as amid an International Coronavirus crisis the u. K. Government unveils a budget just weeks after pm Boris Johnson fired his own finance minister coming up on the show is it too late to pump money into Health Infrastructure devastated by the tory austerity that followed the 2008 western economic crash or is britains new liberal epidemic of inequality killing off the poorest too quickly we speak to economist guy standing who is set to advise the Jeremy Corbyn government if we did 1 december general election and we ask the author of why nations fail british economist James Robinson if the u. K. Chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britains economy plus we ask a former u. K. Home Office Minister why a pandemic hasnt yet been declared in britain
Shadow chancellor John Mcdonald will measure this budget with joining me now from geneva in switzerland is someone who has advised a shadow chancellor standing cofounder of the basic Income Earth Network guy thanks so much for coming back on so after years of tory austerity the un called it callous policies driven by a political desire for social reengineering how well prepared is the chancellor to offer policies in response to Something Like coronavirus well to be frank i think its almost irresponsible to be having a budget today the chancellor is a young man whos never had a senior government position before and hes been in the job for weeks to prepare a complex budget and an extremely sensitive moment in our modern history when weve not only got the pandemic rushing towards us but the World Economy is at the very very fragile state. Bad mistakes at national and International Level could lead us into a big recession i want to get to those macro level top topics in a 2nd but im not su