adrianfry, to random
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is behind the times. He believes that the foundations of national security lay in blowing the budget on nuclear weapons, and largely ignores:

Cyber warfare (infrastructure, banking, etc)
Effects of climate change
Media & social media manipulation
Energy security
Food security

This Cold War mentality might appease readers of the Telegraph and Mail, but it's not protecting anyone except investors in the defence industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/02/keir-starmer-to-declare-labour-as-party-of-national-security

adrianfry, to random
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Rachel Reeves has hired a tax advisor whose views are the epitome of rightwing capitalist thinking.

https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/112246525645260320

Whilst Starmer's cabal are preferable to Sunak's shower of charlatans, in no way are they leftwing.

This is your daily reminder that if you vote #Labour you'll get #Tory policies.

#RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #tax #BlueLabour

adrianfry, to random
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I read that is going to "hardwire growth" and "invest in industries of the future" with "a decade of national renewal".

The disUK is hamstrung by mismanagement (see ) and this aspirational capitalist bullshit is just more of the same. One can imagine Johnson spouting all that Reeves says here.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to Scotland
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"I’ll be voting at the General Election and I will not be doing so with fingers crossed that the rest of the UK will be doing the right thing and giving the Tories their marching orders. If the rest of the UK wants the Tories back in power then so be it. It’s not 's job to be Britain’s conscience. We’ve done that and it hasn’t worked. All we got in return is being told we don’t have the right to have a say in our future."

  • Richard Walker in The National.

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24123393.labour-will-better-tories-still-no-good-scotland/

russellt,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious

Same here! Never had there been a starker choice between Labour and the SNP. Now is our time!

RichardJMurphy, to random
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Labour’s plan for the City is grossly irresponsible and could lead to a repeat of 2008 https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/01/31/labours-plan-for-the-city-is-gross-irresponsibility-that-could-lead-to-a-repeat-of-2008/. I am staggered by the scale of stupidity in Labour's plan for the City. It's as if they want to relive the pre-Crash years, with all the consequences that followed. Is that really the best they can do?

adrianfry,
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@RichardJMurphy Slashing regulation and unlimited profits sound to me like policies.

It's becoming clearer by the day that the party under are intending to step straight into shoes. All one can hope for is that are slightly less corrupt and mendacious than their predecessors.

doesn't support either of the disUK's Westminster-centric FPTP options, so I long for to allow democratic choice of government for our country.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Saddle up for a u-turn everyone. Why are policies - especially ones as desperately important as this - always evaluated in terms of what they cost, and not how much they benefit (which usually has a financial element to it)?🙄 😡

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/29/rachel-reeves-says-fiscal-picture-very-different-to-when-labour-made-28bn-green-pledge

adrianfry,
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@fkamiah17 Does Labour have any of its own policy remaining, or will absolutely everything in their manifesto be continuity Tory?

Hadenuff, to random
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"The Labour leader says the party is different now."

That is true, it is no longer electable. Starmer appears to be determined to keep the Tories in power.
His support for the Israeli genocide and now his support for attacks in Yemen highlight his inexorable slide to the right. He may as well cross the floor to the Tory benches.

adrianfry, to Canada
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Another bonus is to be the collapse of exports to , to which Labour's approach is cakeism.

When will and his stooges admit that the reason why we're not getting decent trade deals is that we're a small country just outside the periphery of a massive trading bloc?

The answer to so many of the UK's woes is much closer alignment and integration with the , including Freedom of Movement. But, vote , get policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/23/hard-cheese-canada-rejects-british-attempt-to-secure-tariff-free-exports

adrianfry, to Scotland
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    @HelenG Further disappointment from the Labour party who are now virtually indistinguishable from the pre-Brexit Tories.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    🤬🤬
    "Starmer refuses to say if Israel is complying with international law, saying it is unwise for politicians to make instant judgments on these issues"
    Except the UN and the ICC are already investigating known war crimes.

    adrianfry,
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    @fkamiah17 Starmer has that fence so far up his arse crack. I'm seriously beginning to wonder whether the next government is going to be discernibly better than the .

    adrianfry, to socialism
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    Yet another U-turn by to appease the right. By the time is handed the keys to Number Ten, transition will be complete and will stand firmly on the same centre-right ground as the did a decade ago.

    is dead in .

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/25/labour-u-turns-on-promise-of-scottish-style-right-to-roam-in-england

    SteveJonesnono1, to random
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    For fuck's sake!

    I'm surprised Starmer's not constantly dizzy with all the U-turns he makes.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/27/labour-backs-down-from-plan-to-strip-private-schools-of-charitable-status

    adrianfry,
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    @SteveJonesnono1 I'm finding 's Party increasingly difficult to distinguish from the Party as it was maybe a decade ago, before it crossed the event horizon of the black hole of Brexit.

    How the Overton Window has shifted.

    SubtleBlade, to random
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    adrianfry,
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    @SubtleBlade I wonder whether this is the same kind of promise that made on tuition fees, nationalisation of utilities, freedom of movement, etc?

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  • adrianfry,
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    @LauraKT The sixth Tory PM in seven years - that'll be Starmer then?

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