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davek
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It's moving already at a quicker pace than America, Japan, France, and Germany. Obviously that's not down to Starmer and/or Labour, but still, you would appear to be wrong.
Is Britain’s economy finally moving?
Sticky inflation and a weakening job market could still spoil the moodwww.economist.com
Stramer's gang are relying on huge investors like BlackRock and Lloyds to sink billions into housing, education, the green economy sector and the NHS - privatising everything along the way while also being handed a huge chunk of public cash to incentivise building companies who want to get their snouts in the trough.
So, there will be tax hikes of some sort - capital gains tax hikes for eg. Difference between this time around and New Labour with PFI is that the public wont own the new facilities provided.
But the whole thing is dependent on quietism: ie, an industrial relations strategy from Labour that gets unions and workers to STFU and crack on without any objection to what's happening in terms of privatisation and making them accept whatever wages are on offer (the mooted 5% on offer to doctors, teachers will be a one off - then it'll be show time).
The whole growth plan is a fairy story. It cant and it wont roll out the way Starmer and Reeves say it will. It was all just a ruse to take power for 5 years.
What are you on about?
davek
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Embarrassed for you. Do a bit of reading rather than number crunching.
davek
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Ha ha ha.
Imagine thinking that turncoat was good enough for anything.
I wouldn't hire him to clean crap up from the streets.
A slimy turd of a man.
I was hoping you could point me in the direction of where the things you've said have happened.
Well I for one think the Labour 7 and Darth Starmer’s reaction is absolutel gold for this thread.
Less good for low income parents with more than two kids.
Less good for low income parents with more than two kids.
supertoffee98
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Starmer would not be the first non-Conservative PM of this country to want to appease a malicious state occupying neighbouring countries.
The only other leader in recent history who has took the whip off MP's who rebelled on principle was Boris Johnson.
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supertoffee98
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Ian Byrne is a fantastic MP who has been given a horrible time both by the Labour Party in Liverpool and nationally. The amount that was thrown at him by people to stop him being nominated to be the Labour candidate the first time was immense. The 2019 selection contest was brutal for anybody who followed or was involved. He will be a good Independent Socialist MP and for his own sake I'm happy he's out of that toxic party. And I'm saying that as somebody who was also expelled from Labour a few years ago, it's a thorough relief not to have to go to meetings with some of the right-wingers and careerists that make up the grassroots party and councillors in Merseyside.
Alright Ian
supertoffee98
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Can someone explain to me who effected mostly by the two child benefit cap?
Legit question as I can see something like 38% of Universal credit calimaints are in work. Where I'm struggling is to see what they claim and if and how this effects them. Is it single parent households mostly? The unemployed?
I ask as I was messing about with the benefit entitlement calculator the Gov.uk UC page links out too. Inputted for two adults on full time minimum wage jobs with 2 and 3 kids. It's not the easiest or most intuitive site, bit it seemed to indicate any benefits would be for childcare and child benefit, both went up from 2 to 3 kids.
Where I'm going here is trying to get to the heart of who is effected, numbers of people and what other policies/approaches could work. On the latter I've never been a fan of the state propping up low salaries rather than addressing the issue of low pay directly. New Labour in particular were guilty here, despite the introduction of the minimum wage. So vulnerable to slashing exercises by the Tories, for one (thinking working tax credits here where friends got fisted in 2010).
Legit question as I can see something like 38% of Universal credit calimaints are in work. Where I'm struggling is to see what they claim and if and how this effects them. Is it single parent households mostly? The unemployed?
I ask as I was messing about with the benefit entitlement calculator the Gov.uk UC page links out too. Inputted for two adults on full time minimum wage jobs with 2 and 3 kids. It's not the easiest or most intuitive site, bit it seemed to indicate any benefits would be for childcare and child benefit, both went up from 2 to 3 kids.
Where I'm going here is trying to get to the heart of who is effected, numbers of people and what other policies/approaches could work. On the latter I've never been a fan of the state propping up low salaries rather than addressing the issue of low pay directly. New Labour in particular were guilty here, despite the introduction of the minimum wage. So vulnerable to slashing exercises by the Tories, for one (thinking working tax credits here where friends got fisted in 2010).
coollino
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Made me laugh that mateSomehow don't think Ian spends his downtime on GOT
Well he has a bit of free time now I guess
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