UK Politics Thread (Part 2)

The most recent stuff I can think of.

  1. £28 billion a year for climate action.
  2. Net Zero power system by 2030.
  3. Establish a new publicly owned energy generation system.
  4. £60bn investment programme to insulate 2m houses.
  5. Introduced a new industrial strategy to improve UK’s productivity rate
  6. Setting up a national wealth fund.
  7. More Devolution - abolishing the house of lords and giving more economic powers and budgets to the regions.
  8. Abolishing non-dom status.
  9. Equalisation of tax rates paid on capital gains and dividends with those on wages, and possibly charging national insurance on investment income.
  10. Raising the minimum wage to a ‘proper living wage’ (Osbourne nicked the phrase ‘living wage’ from campaigners while not raising the minimum wage anywhere near what they were calling for.)
  11. Banning zero hour contracts and giving workers entitlement to sick pay, paid holidays and parental leave from day one.
  12. Introduction of fair pay agreements (collective bargaining) to set wages and working conditions in key sectors.
  13. Taking rail operators back into public ownership once their franchises expire.
  14. Removing VAT exemption from private school fees
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This is to do with devolving more powers and funding that Gordon Brown set out in his recent paper.

I’d be worried if Sunak was half competent, but he isn’t. He’s a fucking moron.

Starmer doesn’t have to say anything. Every time Labour set put a policy, the Tories steal it and pass it off as their own. He is right to keep letting the Tories fuck in the country.

When is the election again?

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The thing that makes me laugh here, is that Sunak is actually the Prime Minister and his big intervention this week to the deteriorating country I was to tell us he is sure that it’s all going to get better.

Meanwhile Starmer should be setting out his policies for an election that Sunak isn’t going to call for two years.

Girl What GIF by MOODMAN

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Forgot to include that Labour have said that if they are elected they will repeal any anti strike legislation Sunak introduces.

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Exactly this. :+1:

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Latest polls have Labour with a 20+% lead, but Starmer should take advice from random Tories on the internet.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls

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Starmer has it all wrong look how the Lib/dems are closing the gap! :rofl:

I am just loving this, guy sits around doing nothing to become PM. :rofl:

Its likely the polls are a bit higher than what the gap actually is, so we will probably see a narrowing to about 10-15% nearer the election.

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Manager who gets to within 2 games of a perfect season quadruple should take advice from random fans on the internet.

OK.

I’ll believe it when I see it. The cunt Blair had the chance to repeal Thatcher’s anti-union legislation and didn’t.

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Blair wasn’t really Labour, though. Agree that he was (and still is) a cunt.

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Starmer was a civil rights lawyer. I would imagine that removing anti-civil rights legislation is one area that he could be relied on.

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The only Tory red wall I want to see requires a firing squad.

Yes fine, all very well. But apart form those fourteen (fifteen) points, what has actually been announced?

I agree with both sentiments.

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I’m assuming that this was originally a blue backdrop? When will they ever learn?

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