银行家们在偿还他们在2008年给国家造成的数十亿英镑损失方面几乎还没开始。在这位首相面前，他们可能遇到了对手。氛围很重要。我们靠感觉生活——这是正统经济学搞错、而安迪·伯纳姆的首份预算似乎搞对的一个观点。
Bankers have barely begun to repay the billions they cost the country after 2008. In this PM they may have met their match Vibes matter. We live by how we feel – an idea that orthodox economics gets wrong and Andy Burnham’s first budget looks set to get right.
这位行走的好氛围大师正撒下一把把小善举。这些举措或许还无法扭转40年新自由主义经济学的局面，但显示了他前行的方向。引人注目的日常小事——从封顶公交票价到那笔虽小却引人共鸣的平均每户电费减免45英镑增值税——让人们议论纷纷，此外还有建立国家照护服务、选举改革以及可能重返欧盟的更大规划。波莉·托恩比是《卫报》专栏作家
This walking good-vibes maestro is spreading a confetti of small good deeds. These may not shift the dial yet on 40 years of neoliberal economics, but they show the way he’s heading. Eyecatching everyday things – from capping bus fares to that small but resonant sum of £45 VAT on average off electricity bills – get people talking, alongside bigger plans for a national care service, electoral reform and a possible journey back to the EU. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist