I'd like you to meet a certain Mr Blair and this thing he calls "New Labour"... Seriously, Labour had over a decade to reverse some of Thatcher's most economically destructive policies: not allowing profits of "right to buy" to be re-invested in housing, privatisation of energy & utility companies, privatisation of railways & public transport, deregulation of the financial markets, chronic underfunding of the NHS (or ignoring the people working there and putting the funding into more middle management and management consultancies), etc... And... they didn't.
And likely still wouldn't have even if Corbyn had won the election. Also 'vote for us, we haven't won an election in over 40 years! [bc Blair doesn't count]' is a bold electoral strategy for the main opposition party. Up there with 'you have reservations about Corbyn? well **** off and join the tories then...' and 'remember the last time "labour" was in power? it was ****' is just doing the Tories' job for them.
Did you expect them to suggest something more reasonable than turning green belt into a concrete waste land? Like for example making use of the unused space above shops in cities for flats, or coming up with some sensible incentives for companies (and people) to ditch London in favour of other UK locations?
I kinda get the NHS middle-management thing. Back then, every ****er and his granny was a traveling management guru who promised new ways of working and efficiency through change of working practices; and just about every major corp bought into these snake oil salesmen and padded out the bullsh!t bingo tiers in the hopes of driving improvement without major investment. These guys were on a 18 month cycle and would "revolutionise" a whole industry before tweaking their schtick and moving on. Personally, I'd stick em all in a field and bomb the bast@rds.
So now the job of government lawyers is to think of ways to circumvent the law, so the government can pursue illegal policies. This is continuing on the slippery slope toward a Tory dictatorship. How long before they are finding ways to restrict our ability to vote? Billionaire Russians will be giving them more large donations...
Yet more evidence that they've all wafted through life having never been told 'no', and now they are they're throwing a shitfit.
Well I mean theg spaffed enough hot air about the glories of Brexitland and got away with it and still get away with saying it's wonderful even though there's evidence to the exact opposite. I guess they believe they can say and do anything.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9187/ We are already there. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who don't have a photo ID, or have an expired one. They'll all be denied their vote at the next GE, the reality that they disproportionately likely to be poor and non-white is purely coincidence.
We all know it's really about electoral fraud, right? You know, combating that widespread electoral fraud that we've heard so much about? The electoral fraud which is absolutely backed by solid evidence, yeah? /s - just in case anyone's under any misapprehensions about whether I'm actually being serious or not....
Makes since given we're the source of most of theirs. America is, was, and probably always will be English awfulness [with a soupçon of French awfulness] wrapped in ******** French style égalité.
Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Still, at least next GE we'll be able to vote Labour, the party of the peo... Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date ...oh.
I am not an economist, but if there's broad consensus that having above inflation pay rises will increase inflation, i'd say we're best matching pay rises to inflation. I'd be interested in seeing their thoughts on / how they propose to deal with the businesses that seem to be rolling in it currently.
