“Eee…that were easy!”
What is it with Labour prime ministers? They seem to have a death wish. Just like Starmer, within days of taking office he’s screwing pensioners! He must be raving mad. And here’s Labour within a gnat’s cock of annihilation.
And then there are all those promises…PR, rejoin the EU, but they’re not for now, they’re for later - maybe. And here’s a man supposedly offering us hope. I give up!
@andyburnham@Ed_Miliband@JohnHealey_MP
WE’VE HAD ENOUGH GOOD WORDS. WE NEED TO SEE SOME ACTION!
I’m sorry, but jam tomorrow won’t hack it, and neither will “there’s no money”.
We’ve had so many promises and pledges that have come to nothing. Labour needs to deliver - and soon. Patience is paper thin.
So what’s the problem? There’s no money? That’s bullshit. There’s £90 billion in extra annual revenue if wealth was taxed properly. A simple example, why is investment income taxed less than ‘work’ income?
Why is there no cap on bank profits? Why is the Bank of England paying interest on QE deposits to banks, it’s the government’s own money? Why is there no financial transaction tax?
The government says the cost of pensions at £158 billion is too high despite having one of the lowest state pensions in Europe. So it’s decided to remove the triple lock safeguard. Screwing pensioners while giving the well off pension contribution tax relief that costs £85 billion, half the total cost of pensions, is just not right.
The excess profits made by energy companies is huge. Where are the windfall taxes? Why are Amazon, Google and Meta not being taxed properly?
Neoliberal economics has sucked the lifeblood out of Britain. We’ve heard good noises about ditching it and then the Chancellor makes up new fiscal rules to please the financial markets, putting himself in a straitjacket and putting the financial markets in control. It’s absolutely crackers.
And then there’s growth. Growth comes from government spending. No spend, no growth. It can never be (but it is right now) tax and spend, it has to be spend and tax. And the government doesn’t need to be in hock to the financial markets, it can create the money it needs. It then recoups the money through taxation as the economy grows and prospers. This can’t, and won’t happen under neoliberalism, but it will under MMT- modern monetary theory - which the government needs to embrace with some urgency.
And then there’s the £100 billion Brexit is costing us every year. Noises about closer relations with Europe are meaningless. We must rejoin the EU, it’s an economic imperative. The speed towards this imperative is glacial. This has to change, and quickly.
Life in Britain for most people is shit. All around us are the signs of social decay. Nothing works, everything is make do and second rate. It doesn’t have to be this way, but it is because of political choice.
@andyburnham@JohnHealey_MP
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