Ellie McLaughlin
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Ellie McLaughlin
@elliemclaughlin.bsky.social
Policy & advocacy at Positive Money, prev. ShareAction. Mostly thinking about green(ing) finance, climate & the housing crisis
Sadly it’s a civil society exclusive!
June 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It surely cannot be tenable for the Treasury and Bank to continue to pass the buck of accountability between each other on something with such significant real-world consequences.

As this piece argues, this ought to be subject to a full public inquiry:

www.omfif.org/2025/02/high...
High time to reassess the Bank of England’s independence - OMFIF
The general consensus on how best to run the monetary side of an economy has been to have an autonomous central bank – an entity with sole responsibility for controlling inflation and using standard m...
www.omfif.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Vast sums of public money are ending up in the pockets of banks like Barclays, while the Government trails cuts to public services, refuses to reverse tory cuts to bank taxes, and pursues growth driven by financial deregulation.
February 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM