Think you’re referring to Liam Byrne? In any case, that was a joke note.
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Of course but it was up front and honest.
Not like hiding a self inflicted £22bn hole in your finances from everyone involved as part of a political stunt.
Which was a transparent lie. The finances had taken a bit from the Global Financial Crisis, but the idea that Labour had fucked it up was a total fabrication (probably the opposite - I think there some parts of the response I disagreed with him on, but it’s fairly well understood now that Gordon Brown’s decisive action during the crisis was pivotal to making sure the banks didn’t take down everyone’s pensions and savings with them).
Cameron and Osborn took that and used it as pretext for an ideological attack on public spending, targeting the most vulnerable people in society.
When Reeves says the Tories have smashed the economy, she isn’t playing politics. She is telling the truth.
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It’s a joke that has been passed from government to government since the fifties. I don’t think it will happen again since the last government weaponised it.
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That’s what I had in mind. A Land Value Tax targets unproductive land, and there are vast swathes of land in this country held by very few incredibly wealthy people.
Basically the Government have to go after the wealth that it tied to fixed assets. All the stuff that can’t be offshored. Like schools. Fucking massive houses. Luxury cars. And vast estates of land.
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But something something both sides something all politicians are liars something something.
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It’s a joke that has been passed from government to government since the fifties. I don’t think it will happen again since the last government weaponised it.
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No agreed. They went to the other extreme this time.
Maybe some tax could be used to stimulate building too:
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I believe building stuff is one part of the way out of this. Since 2010 the UK has essentially stopped building and is partly why uk productivity per capita is so low.
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Wish that were true round here. Housing estates going up everywhere and devouring farm land…
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Yep.
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…and it is only going to get uglier as the night caves in. Liverpool now
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Some awful scenes in Belfast today too
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It was ignorants cunts like this who spent last week moaning about some Muslim men attacking the police and defending the police stamping on one of their heads.
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I’ve argued or intimated in the past that inequality drives a lot of currents that are untasteful and should be “understood” and “absorbed” but ultimately, there is a line that individuals can (and should) walk. These groups of “individuals” are not that. Their language is that of radicalisation.
Taking this lightly is leaving a cancer grow untreated.
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It’s organised and I fear things are gonna get much worse. Social media has totally brain washed huge swathes of society. Tommy Robinson trying to mobilise a civil war. Elon Musk actively encouraging the far right
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So where was this level of anger for Lucy Letby and targeting and abusing white people?
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On the plus side, the numbers are relatively small and the counter protests are generally bigger.
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Farage playing tin pot statesman in front of two flags on social media. Wont ask his question in parliament though will he?
Not heard a peep from the green party on any major news outlet since the election either.
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