Voters want to fix the finances they just want everyone except themselves to shoulder the burden. Same as always. Voters love tax rises for everyone but themselves they love bans and regulations on everyone and everything except the stuff they like.
HoFattoScaloAGrado on
This iteration of Labour is ideologically pro-austerity. Around the world right now it is the go-to method for managing the rolling crisis of capitalism post-2008. There is a magic money tree — the central bank — and its money-making power has been shown to us by the countless squillions of £££ made available to banks each time they eff up.
However, the public can’t be allowed to catch on that producing money is a piece of piss & that there’s no good reason for anybody doing without it — that sort of thinking brings revolutions and the ruling class hates them.
So all bourgeois politicians must push the story that public spending is somehow destabilising and that countries can’t indulge in it. (It helps that they hate the working class & cutting social support is the best way to hurt em, make em desperate.)
Economic policy like that which Labour is tiptoeing up to fuels the far right. (Another thing the ruling class is basically cool with.)
People are cottoning on that we are mismanaged, and that the colour of politician doesn’t have much to do with it.
rocc_high_racks on
Well, at the very least they’re just pissing on our heads, as opposed to pissing on our heads and telling us it’s raining.
Kam5lc on
What type of policy have labour so far announced that makes its regressive? Means testing the winter fuel allowance makes absolute sense as wealthier pensioners don’t need this benefit as much as others. I think we should be patient and wait until the October budget before we consider getting our pitchforks out.
Created_User_UK on
The three areas he scored the lowest are,
likeability, being in touch and representing what people believe.
I suppose Labour have themselves to blame for running an election campaign devoid of any substance except for the message “the Tories suck don’t they?”
The problem was always gonna be, ‘ok the Tories are gone now so who exactly are you?’
The answer being: an empty suit housing a congealed blob of nothingness spouting monotonous managerialist slogans
Managed decline everyone, that’s all you are getting.
0Neverland0 on
The current labour government from the prime minister down are deeply uninspiring.
Taking down Thatcher’s portrait in no 10 and banning smoking in pub gardens seems the sum of their ambition.
They are just the same bureaucrats who ran the country in the ground for the last 20-30 thrity years now elected as politicians.
Their only idea is that by doing the same thing they’ve always done better we’ll get a different result. Wrong.
What’s happening to Olav Schloz’s SDP led coalition in Germany is the ghost of Christmas future.
BusInternational1080 on
I didn’t think we could get worse than the last government but I’m being proven wrong.
giblets46 on
Think the major issue is everyone is aware there is a cost of living crisis, labour have come in and taken money away from pensioners and seemingly given in to the unions with zero concessions for increasing productivity… now they are telling us they will increase taxes all over the place at least some of that will fall on the least well off (eg fuel duty)… doesn’t give confidence.
lizardk101 on
Lame Duck Prime Minister. For most, the last four years have been worse than the past 14 years, saying that there’s more pain ahead, what’s the upside to the pain? What’s the promise at the end of the tunnel? Just “it won’t get a lot worse in a few years, just a bit worse?” That’s not a reason to exist as a Government.
There’s all this pain, and there’s even more problems ahead we don’t even know that could come about, which means even worse to come. It’s selling Britain short by not investing in Britain.
OliLombi on
Auterity got us into this mess. I don’t know why labour seem to think that more austerity can get us out of it…
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Voters want to fix the finances they just want everyone except themselves to shoulder the burden. Same as always. Voters love tax rises for everyone but themselves they love bans and regulations on everyone and everything except the stuff they like.
This iteration of Labour is ideologically pro-austerity. Around the world right now it is the go-to method for managing the rolling crisis of capitalism post-2008. There is a magic money tree — the central bank — and its money-making power has been shown to us by the countless squillions of £££ made available to banks each time they eff up.
However, the public can’t be allowed to catch on that producing money is a piece of piss & that there’s no good reason for anybody doing without it — that sort of thinking brings revolutions and the ruling class hates them.
So all bourgeois politicians must push the story that public spending is somehow destabilising and that countries can’t indulge in it. (It helps that they hate the working class & cutting social support is the best way to hurt em, make em desperate.)
Economic policy like that which Labour is tiptoeing up to fuels the far right. (Another thing the ruling class is basically cool with.)
People are cottoning on that we are mismanaged, and that the colour of politician doesn’t have much to do with it.
Well, at the very least they’re just pissing on our heads, as opposed to pissing on our heads and telling us it’s raining.
What type of policy have labour so far announced that makes its regressive? Means testing the winter fuel allowance makes absolute sense as wealthier pensioners don’t need this benefit as much as others. I think we should be patient and wait until the October budget before we consider getting our pitchforks out.
The three areas he scored the lowest are,
likeability, being in touch and representing what people believe.
I suppose Labour have themselves to blame for running an election campaign devoid of any substance except for the message “the Tories suck don’t they?”
The problem was always gonna be, ‘ok the Tories are gone now so who exactly are you?’
The answer being: an empty suit housing a congealed blob of nothingness spouting monotonous managerialist slogans
Managed decline everyone, that’s all you are getting.
The current labour government from the prime minister down are deeply uninspiring.
Taking down Thatcher’s portrait in no 10 and banning smoking in pub gardens seems the sum of their ambition.
They are just the same bureaucrats who ran the country in the ground for the last 20-30 thrity years now elected as politicians.
Their only idea is that by doing the same thing they’ve always done better we’ll get a different result. Wrong.
What’s happening to Olav Schloz’s SDP led coalition in Germany is the ghost of Christmas future.
I didn’t think we could get worse than the last government but I’m being proven wrong.
Think the major issue is everyone is aware there is a cost of living crisis, labour have come in and taken money away from pensioners and seemingly given in to the unions with zero concessions for increasing productivity… now they are telling us they will increase taxes all over the place at least some of that will fall on the least well off (eg fuel duty)… doesn’t give confidence.
Lame Duck Prime Minister. For most, the last four years have been worse than the past 14 years, saying that there’s more pain ahead, what’s the upside to the pain? What’s the promise at the end of the tunnel? Just “it won’t get a lot worse in a few years, just a bit worse?” That’s not a reason to exist as a Government.
There’s all this pain, and there’s even more problems ahead we don’t even know that could come about, which means even worse to come. It’s selling Britain short by not investing in Britain.
Auterity got us into this mess. I don’t know why labour seem to think that more austerity can get us out of it…
They’re trying to dig their way out of a hole.