I talk about this in my book – politicians have become glorified pundits. Why is the government in a beef with a rap group? Build some fucking high speed rail you losers.
We have a choice on fascism. We can redistribute income and wealth so most people in this country have a chance, which they don’t at present. Or we can leave the wealthy heavily under-taxed as they are right now, and open the door to fascists. Equality v fascism. Your choice.
Interesting how Muslims voting for non-Labour candidates is covered compared to, say, Jewish voters being encouraged not to vote Labour between 2017 and 2018 by the chief rabbi, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, and the Jewish Telegraph.
We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices. 🧵
A series of questions.
What is being grown?
Is it just financial wealth? If so, why?
Who will gain from this?
How will losers (because there will be some) be compensated?
Is this sustainable?
How will inequality be addressed?
What happens of growth is unequal and the regions of the U.K. are still left behind?
What if we don’t need growth in financial wealth, but instead need growth in:
- Healthcare
- Education
- Social care
- Justice
- Support for the vulnerable
- Sustainability
- Biodiversity
How do these grow? If there any link between those goals and the growth Labour wants?
And how will Labour in government deliver growth without spending more when no one knows how governments can do that?
So many questions and no hint as to the answers.
In that case, why choose growth? It makes no sense unless the expected outcome is known and planned.
Or is planning itself anathema now, and we are just meant to rely on the goodwill of those who might gain?
I wish I knew, because I don’t and Labour aren’t saying, which makes statements like these really troubling.
If there’s a national mission, at the very least we need to know why, and how we gain. At present, we don’t and that makes me think that Rachel Reeves does not know either.
If you've just joined us, Labour has achieved a landslide with less votes than it won in 2019.
Which you'll recall was so bad that the then leader unfortunately had to be expelled from the parliamentary party.