It's never dared to say that lower migration means more expensive social care -- higher taxes, in effect.
That its programmes -- the 1.5mn houses, a new grid -- require welders and engineers that UK Further Education colleges can't afford to train. /7
That its programmes -- the 1.5mn houses, a new grid -- require welders and engineers that UK Further Education colleges can't afford to train. /7
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Ducked broad based tax increases
Duck social care reform.
Duck and cover at every opportunity because too frightened to launch a counter-argument.
Despite Johnson, Truss..all the madness. But still. /8
- on contact with the shaping ecosystem of “the state” -
Into the belief that no political choices that even slightly annoy “big financialised capital” can ever be taken.
Because Farage is the only one telling a story.
Might not be to your taste, as a liberal Blue Sky-er, but it's a story.
Merry old England, mustard cords, by jingo blah blah.../9
But that's what it is, and it's even more incredible that Laboursticks to no story
Populism is also escapism, freedom from responsibility.
Populism doesn’t care about that. And we need to call it out for not doing so.
There has to be a progressive narrative too, but you can't build credibility overnight.
Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses. ENDS
On no, not 'Free', I'm sorry, I meant to say 'We have to have
There is a basic dishonesty in making us persist with this destructive idiocy, every time they refuse to mention how much it is costing us.
Who, I'm assured, knew exactly what they voted for - despite all obvious implicit evidence to the contrary, as well as the more explict, oft repeated, "this isn't the Brexit _I_ voted for!".
The dishonesty is as bad as the language. It’s wrong & deeply divisive.
Excellently put summation.
But why won't they even _try_ to tell an alternative story? Has Brexit copper fastened the immigration faultli e for several generations?
Or is all too difficult, banging on about immigration is the easier path.
Starmer is Farage’s biggest asset because the empty vessel is making the most noise.
Almost none of these are on the UK government's list of preferred universities for visas.
BioNTech's founders were at Mainz...
Full research here:
https://cramptonblackie.com/2025/01/06/report-state-of-rna-in-europe/
Implemented Mirrlees (merge NI and Income tax)
Implemented proper local government reform with fiscal powers in a system similar to Germany (council tax reform)
Both these help growth and raise tax revenue
Lords reduced to 150
Set up state to withstand lies from right wing and print media and start to foster collaboration, PR for at least local government and Mayor elections
Massive devolution to England and especially Wales
The problem stopping Labour going for it is the lack of interest, ironically.
My mum, like many others, is enjoying a long healthy retirement. And that’s great.
But couple that with a fertility rate that is too low (1.5 instead of 2.1) and a big national debt and it hurts.
We need more people to balance the economy so we can retire well!
But apart from that, do bring evidence to explain how life expectancy has grown almost continuously (covid and Johnson aside) whilst successive governments have allegedly culled people.
Partisan clickbait media (Mail, Times, Telegraph, GB News) - BBC dissolving.
Debt overhang from 2008, Brexit, Covid - no money available.
Public retreating into their chosen feel-good echo chambers - uninterested in dealing with reality.
https://bsky.app/profile/pmdfoster.bsky.social/post/3loy2hjxkrs2s
Thanks.
Labour is so disappointing for so many reasons.
You've just spelt most of them out, very clearly.
So he's left himself with nothing.