@rbnfrance@afneil I manage a recruitment firm that recruits securit teams, chefs, gardeners and all sorts of other roles that wouldn’t be required if the wealthy leave the country… so yes. It is my expert opinion
The only thing Andy Burnham should be apologising for is Labour’s failure to fully support Israel’s war against the army of anti-Semites that raped and murdered its citizens, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/rXgpQMvGeM
@Keir_Starmer No amount of positive spin can hide the truth. 35% pay rises to public sectors under pressure from the unions and the threat to defund the Labour Party.
Result being everyone else pays for your weakness, and you make the NHS even less manageable in the future as a result. 🤡
@DraperOr Utter Stupidity, compounded by a totally unfounded confidence that they’re right while not understanding basic principles . Just repeating lies even when the facts are being explained to them very clearly and simply. This is the economics of the left.
@AlistairCarns@CatharineHoey “a plan for a world that doesn’t exist” is an analogy of the Labour Party.
Labour break businesses’, make the youth unemployable, are indebted to unions that don’t care about productivity, oppose and block anything when in opposition, and no plan when in power.
@easyJet I’ve been on hold for 25 minutes so far… Is there anyone actually there?
You email to tell me you have changed my flights, then direct me to your app where it would cost £30 pp to change them back.
Customer service is appalling!!
Hike capital gains tax by 87.5%, as Wes suggests, and watch as all asset transactions grind to a complete halt until Labour loses power and the tax rise is reversed.
As someone with a worm’s eye view of the legislative process, it really irritates me that Starmer’s spin for the poor local election results is that his Govt hasn’t been moving fast enough. There were 40 bills in the first parliamentary session and there are 37 in the second, as set out in yesterday’s King’s Speech. Starmer has created 96 peers – a higher rate per year than any previous Prime Minister. He could not be going any faster.
The fact that the legislation the Govt has rammed through has not delivered growth or reduced the tax burden on working people or lowered the cost of living – delivered the ‘change’ that Labour promised – is because they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to placate the Party’s ‘stakeholders’ – backbench Labour MPs, trade unions, NGOs, think tanks, lobby groups, allies in the legal profession, cheerleaders in the media, etc.
It’s been bleedin’ obvious to everyone on the opposition benches – and probably some on the Govt benches too – that the legislation was introduced in the last parliamentary session – particularly the Employment Rights Act – will impede growth, not accelerate it.
We’ve told the Govt’s ministers this in the chamber again and again and everything we’ve predicted would happen has happened – rising unemployment, rising inflation, accelerating borrowing costs, an unmanageable welfare bill, exodus of high income-earners, thereby increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, etc.
The idea that if the Govt had been going *even faster* – which is just straightforwardly impossible – the country would be better off, is for the birds. Even as a piece of spin, it’s pathetic. The reason we’re in an economic doom spiral is because this Govt is only interested in pandering to its ‘stakeholders’ and their only motive is to line their own pockets and advance their own narrow sectional interests.
Changing the leader will make no difference. We need a Prime Minister and a Govt who are going to prioritise the national interest. I don’t see anyone in the pack of hyenas stalking Starmer who’s going to do that.
So far Starmer’s efforts to save his skin have been a classic case study in how not to save your skin:
The most unpopular Labour PM in history (Starmer) calls in aid the second most unpopular Labour PM in history (Brown).
With most Labour MPs despising you and willing to grant you, at most, a civilised stepping down over some months, you say you’ll be in power for a decade. Labour MPs’ worst nightmare.
You commission a propaganda film of you, Brown, Rachel Reeves and Harriet Harman looking smug and self-satisfied in the Downing Street garden, complete with meaningful music. How divorced from public opinion can you be?
You signal you’re fresh out of new blood (Brown? Harman?) and new ideas (getting close to the EU is the best you can come up with — hardly a game changer).
You think a ‘reset’ speech (again!) can turn things round? You’re truly delusional.
THE END.
@darrenpjones@Keir_Starmer Even after a day like today, when it should be obvious to anyone with a single brain cell that the country has totally rejected your student union politics, you try and gaslight the country with this BS that what they actually want is for you to ruin the country faster… 🤷🏻♂️
Britain has a Prime Minister and Labour ministers who called their citizens racists for flying their own flag
What the hell did you think was going to happen?
Get those lunatics and their disgusting, arrogant, insane, deluded culture out of power
The world is far too dangerous to have morons leading the country
The politics of a country in decline. Not a single word about wealth creation, without which none of this nonsense can be financed. It’s deeply pathetic. If people fall for this left-wing populist drivel we’ve ceased to be a serious country.