comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 1 hour, 55 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted about 13 hours ago
comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 20 minutes ago
A UK General Election will be held on 4th July, 2024.

Today's Labour lead: 21pts

Projected result on current numbers:
Labour: 400-450 MPs
Conservative: 100-150 MPs
Liberal Democrat: 30-60 MPs
Scottish National: 15-40 MPs
Green: 1-2
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This would be a straight up disaster for the UK.

It would render any opposition to the Labour NEC and leadership of the PLP completely toothless - both on the opposition benches and the Labour backbenches.

It’d be handing another small cabal of neoliberals, who believe that the main problems the UK has had in governance the last 14 years have been competence and integrity rather than policy and direction, the keys to the portcullis, keep and king’s chambers, with the ability to pull the drawbridge up behind them.

It’d mean, for example, that Starmer could implement Austerity 3.0 (as he has promised), Reeves could continue to ignore growing wage and wealth inequality, and Streeting could advance his agenda for accelerating the role of the private sector in the NHS all with complete impunity.
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I think the reality is Austerity ain't going away until we see economic growth. Gov coffers are bare and defence spending is going to increase. Taxes are not coming down imo. Interest rates most likely will, but will they come down quickly? Probably not unless the economy turns downwards again.
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You aren’t going to see the economic growth before austerity is binned.

For evidence, see Britain and Germany in the 1920s (which ultimately delivered us the Naazis), Japan in the 1920s, Hoover in the 1930s (the worst depression in US history), Denmark, Australia and Ireland in the 1980s, half of Europe through the 2000s, and the Tories’ Austerity 1.0 and Austerity 2.0.

Honestly, what have we watched for the last 14 years? Austerity. And what kind of growth has it delivered? None.

Austerity doesn’t work. It has a long, well-documented and spectacularly consistent history.

If the UK is to return to stable, controlled macroeconomic success, it needs a structural reform and serious public investment to follow firstly, a complete rethink of the established Anglo-ordoliberal model and the relationship between the state and the market (or simply ‘not austerity’ and laissez faire); and secondly, an ambitious long term plan for the economy underpinned by serious public investment (by which I mean real, retained investment, and not throwing public money at) in infrastructure, industry (particularly future tech), and higher education, and by measures to unlock dead capital and improve the circulation of money.

#Breaking Net migration to the UK stood at an estimated 685,000 in the year to December 2023, down 10% from a record of 764,000 in the year to December 2022, the Office for National Statistics said

BREXIT FOOOKING BRITAIN

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 19 minutes ago
Rossi

"But how much of a difference will that make to an economy which *desperately and unequivocally needs serious investment and restructuring* and not the further austerity which has been promised in the very first of Starmer’s new five ‘first steps’ ? None".

This is the first pledge by Labour RE:the Economy

"The party plans to deliver economic stability by following “tough spending rules”, it explains. The idea is to “grow our economy and keep taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible”, it adds.

Meanwhile, NHS waiting times will be cut by the introduction of 40,000 more evening and weekend appointments each week, the party promises. It plans to pay for this by cracking down on tax avoidance and non-dom loopholes."

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That first paragraph, given the current economic conditions, can be replaced with the words “more austerity”.

It’s also self-contradictory because as we know, you cannot austerity your way out of an economic slump.

comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 36 seconds ago
#Breaking Net migration to the UK stood at an estimated 685,000 in the year to December 2023, down 10% from a record of 764,000 in the year to December 2022, the Office for National Statistics said

BREXIT FOOOKING BRITAIN
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All the people they haven't sent to Rwanda acting as a deterrant.

Keynes and Schumpeter knew - and demonstrated - that applying austerity measures during a slump was a completely moribund approach a bloody century ago.

And yet here we are, still having the same discussion, even after the last 14 years of the latest wonderful evidence.

Is it worth waiting to see the manifestos before deciding whether we are going to see more austerity?

Rosso

"That first paragraph, given the current economic conditions, can be replaced with the words “more austerity”."

Its not IMO. Its tempering expectations. Labour are often, and have been under Starmer by Sunak, punted as high taxes and free spending. To attract the electorate they want to vote for them they have to change that narrative from austerity vs high taxes and spending as a binary choice. Let's wait and see some detail before making a decision.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 4 minutes ago
Is it worth waiting to see the manifestos before deciding whether we are going to see more austerity?
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To be completely fair, yes.

In the meantime, I’m just pointing out what literally all of Labour’s rhetoric and stated policy positions are suggesting (which is more or less “more of the same with a few tweaks here and there, but done competently and honestly” ).

Danny Kruger, "We've been in power for a long time.. We represent the change.. Labour represent more of the same.. They would carry on the failed British state which has caused so many problems"
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I can't work out if these people are morons or they think we're the morons

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 12 seconds ago
Danny Kruger, "We've been in power for a long time.. We represent the change.. Labour represent more of the same.. They would carry on the failed British state which has caused so many problems"
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I can't work out if these people are morons or they think we're the morons
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It’s both

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 5 minutes ago
Danny Kruger, "We've been in power for a long time.. We represent the change.. Labour represent more of the same.. They would carry on the failed British state which has caused so many problems"
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I can't work out if these people are morons or they think we're the morons
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It's some clever inverted political satire us proles simply don't get.

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 39 minutes ago
Danny Kruger, "We've been in power for a long time.. We represent the change.. Labour represent more of the same.. They would carry on the failed British state which has caused so many problems"
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I can't work out if these people are morons or they think we're the morons
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It’s actually sad this guy is in one of the safest Tory seats in the country

So Rishi Sunak just took a question from a hi-vis jacket-wearing man at a campaign event in a McVities warehouse.

It turns out the man is actually local Conservative councillor Ross Hills.

Hills just admitted to me to being asked to appear at the event
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And so it begins

Was about to paste that, how facking pathetic

NEW: Jeremy Corbyn will confirm today that he will be standing as an independent candidate in Islington North

Go get the red Tory filth Jezzaaaaaa

PRESS RELEASE: tomorrow at 3 p.m. (The Hague), the #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the modification & the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa on 10 May 2024 in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel.

https://x.com/CIJ_ICJ/status/1793556139344527479

Please do the right thing, humanity rides on it

comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 20 minutes ago
NEW: Jeremy Corbyn will confirm today that he will be standing as an independent candidate in Islington North

Go get the red Tory filth Jezzaaaaaa
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Sultana, Lewis, Lavery and the rest of the SCG should join him.

Don't forget Claudia Webbe, Diane Abbott, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell, Kate Osamor, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Rebecca Long-Bailey and anyone else who is more suited to being in opposition

Tom Larkin @TomLarkinSky
Rishi Sunak taking a brave approach to small talk at a brewery in Wales.

He asked workers if they're looking forward to 'all the football'. One quickly pointed out that Wales haven't qualified for the Euros

"you guys will support England though right?"

Rishi Sunak’s big plan to create a smoke-free generation seems to have been ditched but is likely to become a Tory manifesto pledge.

The legislation has not gone far enough in its journey through Parliament to make it through by tomorrow evening, when MPs and Lords pack up for the election.

Bills making the cut are the Digital Markets Bill, Post Office Offences Bill, Media Bill and the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which includes the compensation scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal. Details are still being thrashed out on that.


Another failure from this administration

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted about 3 hours ago
So Rishi Sunak just took a question from a hi-vis jacket-wearing man at a campaign event in a McVities warehouse.

It turns out the man is actually local Conservative councillor Ross Hills.

Hills just admitted to me to being asked to appear at the event
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And so it begins
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Wonder if they will change the name of their Twitter account to pretend to be a fact checking service again during a live debate.

In November 2022, voters in Massachusetts approved a 4% surtax on incomes over $1m.

The tax has generated twice the expected income for the state of 6m people - an additional $1.8bn - which the state is spending on free public school meals, free community college and public transit, as well as delivering increased budgets to each and every municipality in the state.

https://www.mass.gov/news/4-surtax-on-taxable-income-over-1000000-the-basics

https://www.governing.com/transportation/what-the-new-wealth-tax-in-massachusetts-is-paying-for

Tax. The. Rich.

Eat The Rich

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 minutes ago
Eat The Rich
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After taxing them.