because I swear the govt increased borrowing and put up taxes massively at the last budget to chuck at public sector worker pay, increase the min wage and the NHS, to invest in housing and renewables, are against leaving the ECHR and fracking and ...but yeah just the same.
1% of the nation owns more wealth than the bottom 70%. The UN has chastised us for our poverty levels given the wealth of the nation overall. Nearly three-quarters of millionaires in G20 countries advocate for the wealthy to pay higher taxes and see a threat to democracy in current inequalities.
When Starmer ran for the leadership of the Labour Party, his first pledge was to 'Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories’ cuts in corporation tax.' Instead, they wanted to take money from the disabled. Yes. A neoliberal party. Unless we return to social democracy...
... there can be no significant change and Farage will be waiting on the sidelines to capitalise on people's despair with the status quo. We need to offer a different alternative to the status quo. And that is social democracy.
ok, well good luck. I'll be voting for whoever is best to stop Reform winning a majority, maybe that will be Green...but I expect in my seat it will still be Labour.
They aren't neoliberal. That's just lazy. They aren't socialist either. They have increased the size of the state, they have put up taxes on businesses, they are nationalising the railways, they are putting state money into housing and renewables. These aren't neoliberal policies.
I don't want socialists. I want social democrats. Their economic policy is neoliberal.
Oh no it isn't. Ok, bye anyway. Bit bored. I agree Labour have been shit in many ways, but also they did inherit a shitty situation, and have a complex electoral coalition from last election that they're trying but failing to keep.
Of course you're bored. All you can do is repeat, against all the evidence, that they're not following a neoliberal model.
ok, but that wasn't in the manifesto. They were terrified of tax bombshell losing them the next election. It was a mistake that I bet they regret. I think they should put up income tax for everyone actually, maybe not the lowest band.
Everyone? Why everyone? Those at the bottom are struggling. Those at the top can lose money, and it wouldn't make a shred of difference to their daily lives. The point is, Stephen, they didn't do it. It's no good saying that's because they're social democrats afraid of being social democrats...
... so they decided to be neoliberal instead. There was nothing to be afraid of. Truss crashed the markets by borrowing to give the rich a tax break. Exactly the opposite.
so we're going to rely on that 1% to fund everything...you know these rich people that can just get fancy accountants and lawyers and shift their money somewhere else...we'll just hope they do the right thing and fill the massive hole in our finances. Well, finger's crossed.