That’s all for today. We’ll try to get the blog up a bit earlier tomorrow. Thanks for all your comments, link and discussion points.
- The head of the CBI has been speaking out on Corbynomics, reports Andrew Sparrow (and as some of you flagged up earlier). He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Corbyn’s plan for quantitative easing to financy infrastructure spending would not be wise. “QE is something that you do in an emergency,” he said.
- Michael White has written on why he’d prefer Unite’s Len McCluskey as a neighbour to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Updated
Jeremy Corbyn wrote an opinion piece laying out his economic policy for our sister paper The Observer yesterday. Here is the online version.
A lot of the debate around Corbyn’s candidacy has been around the kind of supporters he is bringing with him. There has been plenty written on young voters signing up to support Corbyn’s campaign. But it’s also interesting to hear from those who have drifted away from participation in politics through apathy or anger, only to be re-energised by recent events.
Andrew is not (usually) writing his usual Politics Live blog during summer recess but, as an alternative, here’s Politics Live: readers’ edition. It’s intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.
Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day’s political stories - just as you do during the daily blog. It would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments - breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting.
It’s been a torrid day on financial markets across the world, sparked by the growing crisis of China’s economy. My colleague Graeme Wearden has the latest.
UK politics wise, we have Yvette Cooper challenging Jeremy Corbyn on the need for widespread renationalisation and questioning the viability of his quantitative easing policy. Corbyn received a boost over the weekend as 40 leading economists made public their support for his policies.
You know the drill by now. Any links or discussion points of interest: post them in the comments section below, and we’ll hoist the most interesting above the line.
Slightly off topic, but I hope is acceptable.
As my name on the Guardians comments section will tell, I have sat here watching plastic politics for quite some time and sat in a void between the Green party and Labour.
Three things have happened since then which have reengaged my passion.
Firstly, Mhairi Black MPs maiden speech in the House of Commons particularly the parts about signposts and weathervanes, (Tony Benn) and that she had not left Labour, Labour had left her. https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10153075784641939/?pnref=story
Secondly, Harriet Harman order for abstaining on the welfare bill and the sheep that followed her. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/21/labour-disarray-welfare-48-mps-defy-whips
Thirdly, an ordinary signpost of a man, speaking a language that was not 'plastic' who actually believed what he said. Voicing words I had been thinking but unable to say without being heard.
It would be nice to hear what others peoples reasons were.