IR80 wrote:Scrapping Tuition Fees - correcting a historical wrong that the Fib Dems helped to shepherd through, despite promising not to Nationalise Water Industries - cost neutral Increase Income Tax - for only the very top earners More Free Childcare - to enable more people (particularly women) to return to work 10,000 new Police Officers - replacing the savage Tory cuts that even Hunt has admitted went too far 3,000 new Firefighters - see above Reverse Privatisation of Royal Mail - it was a scam in the first place, and sold for way below the actual value
but they are manifesto stuff, there don't seem to be many actual policy details
so TAX and SPEND
Entirely idealogical, uncosted, all ready to empty the coffers again.
All of those things were manifesto commitments, and that manifesto has been independently adjudged to have been properly costed; and polling suggests that the majority of the public are supportive of the big ticket items, particularly renationalising the essential services that are now run primarily to enrich share holders.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with the politics of envy - and everything to do with the politics of fairness; unfettered capitalism is a failure - we need something new.
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IR80 wrote:Old school Socialists STILL blaming the greatest leader the country has ever seen.
Let's have a sweepstake, how long will Standee last this time?
Thirty nine days is my bid.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
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Sandro II Terrorista wrote:Let's have a sweepstake, how long will Standee last this time?
Aye, the pervading smell of rotting fish that was latterly MGarbutt returns. Same Mail/Sun headlines, still not a shred of credible evidence to support his bile.
“At last, a real, Tory budget,” Daily Mail 24/9/22 "It may be that the honourable gentleman doesn't like mixing with his own side … but we on this side have a more convivial, fraternal spirit." Jacob Rees-Mogg 21/10/21
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King Street Cat wrote:And now BoJo says he's prepared to increase public spending
..........while cutting taxation.
“At last, a real, Tory budget,” Daily Mail 24/9/22 "It may be that the honourable gentleman doesn't like mixing with his own side … but we on this side have a more convivial, fraternal spirit." Jacob Rees-Mogg 21/10/21
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Four months to go, although only 3 months and 1 week after the new leader of the Conservatives is chosen.
Not much of a much clearer idea of the final plan than on June 24, 2016.
Has any country ever focused so hard and for so long on one thing without even being able come up with a plan?
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Mild Rover wrote:Four months to go, although only 3 months and 1 week after the new leader of the Conservatives is chosen.
Not much of a much clearer idea of the final plan than on June 24, 2016.
Has any country ever focused so hard and for so long on one thing without even being able come up with a plan?
It does make you smile when Boris (and Hunt) are promising so much, without the budgetary back up and still having the same 650 MP to try and manipulate to pass their version of Brexit and both of them actually think that they can negotiate something new by the end of October.
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