I hate the Tory party. I want Labour to get in.
Apart from this 28 billion pound investment, I cannot name one thing they actually stand for going into the election. This is a problem.
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They stand for business! Or at least that's the latest thing they've been spinning.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The comments of Mr Reynolds and Ms Reeves appeared to suggest a theme: backing billions of pounds of green investment but letting the £28bn figure fall quietly by the wayside.
Because campaigning at the Kingswood by-election at around the same time Ms Reeves was speaking, Sir Keir Starmer restated the existing policy without any apparent qualms about using the figure.
Politically, it gets to one of the most important questions about Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party: if it enters government later this year, how would it balance economic discipline with its ambitions to transform the country?
A year later, after the dramatic changes to the economic climate caused by Liz Truss's mini-budget, the target was adjusted such that a Labour government would meet it about halfway through its first term.
That's what worries Labour strategists who believe that the most important priority for Sir Keir is to demonstrate fiscal restraint, and that as a result he should drop the figure altogether while continuing to promise a significant increase in green investment.
After Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his Budget on 6 March, Labour will have a clearer idea of the pre-election tax and spend status quo.
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Can’t trust Starmer. Can’t trust Reeves. Can’t trust Labour. Being not-the-Tories does not amount to anything.
Still better than 5 more years of actual Tories though.
Fuck Labour, fuck the Tories. Fuck everyone.
Sack them all and switch to a direct democracy. Why do we need "representatives" to travel to Westminster and vote in a manner that does not represent us? I mean, if they even show up for the vote.
Have competent civil servants/lawyers write the laws, then let people vote them into force. Then let people vote again when they come in and decide whether or not it's any good. A Brexit-style disinformation campaign cannot be sustained indefinitely, for everything, that's something that can only be managed roughly once every 4 years.