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Tories slammed for anti-democratic election changes after shock London Mayor poll (leftfootforward.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think all three of them are not “great reforms”:

Great British Energy is a mechanism to attract PRIVATE investment . The actual sums being proposed are to subsidise private enterprise. It’s not a state-owned energy company. Labour spin it like that to appeal to people who want to see utilities brought back into public ownership. The devil is in the detail.
Labour MIGHT bring in gender reform but Starmer’s drift towards anti-trans positions doesn’t look promising.
Labour have been very clear that they WON’T repeal the existing anti-trade union legislation. This has irked the TUC and Labour are not supporting the TUC taking legal action on an international level.

We need radical policies that address thr extreme poverty and collapse of our social services in the UK. Things must be made better for the poorest (eg. increasing social security, rent caps, free school meals for all, greatly increase the minimum wage) and start taxing the excessively wealthy and corporations.

Labour won’t do this because they are now utterly a tool of the Establishment to maintain the power and wealth of the excessively rich.