elephantroom.bsky.social
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You actually don't need to be clever about it. Just say "we match or exceed these standards in every way under uk law so we might as well make it easier for you lot to sell cheese."
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People do need to understand that, amazingly, not all Labour voters are the types to post dank memes on insta. Some of them are actually quite different to the average follower of Greenpeace on Blue-sky.
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OK fine but that's different things to what is being responded to here. They did increase taxes, legislated around water companies and spent more on public services.
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Come on. They house some nice trout that only fly fishers are interested in and make good watercress. Hardly the last black rhino territory.
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I think it's fair to put some pressure on those who have been in safe seats for decades, but ultimately you don't win power through safe seats and if the bulk of dem electeds are mini-David Hoggs the important swing seats will be lost in actual elections.
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"Increasingly horrific versions of each other" i think inarguably implies it.
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I'm not defending cutting benefits for the disabled. I'd raise taxes instead. But I don't think its enough to say they're the same as the Tories.
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Is that actually true though? Were the tories going t9 put £70b into public services from taxation and borrowing like labour did last year?
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I got hit by the HECB tax charge, but we don't have young kids so don't have to worry about the childcare one. The personal allowance is at least tapered, unlike childcare. I would say increase the top 45% rate and apply it a bit earlier. Surely that could cover it if its only 100s of millions.
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I'm a simple voter. They increased the NHS budget by 19% through taxation. There hasn't been strikes. Wait times have improved. Keep it up and that'll do me in the next GE.
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An actual one rather than a moral one?
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The CJEU is the anti-formalistic court of our times. They are prepared to rule based on the "spirit" of EU ideology. They'll happily find a way to fuck Orban over.
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I don't think that's on the cards. I just don't think many Americans realise that the Western world order they apparently so despise was more or less entirely a US creation, & no nation has benefitted from it more than the US.
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It's over. Europe can't base its entire security on what 20,000 people in Wisconsin feel like that November. Security is either guaranteed or its not, as soon as it's seen as transactional by half of the US then it stops working. Pax Americana is dead.
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It's still an asset worth £1m. Lots of people don't own a home, let alone a home and half a million quids worth of land. I accept that it's frustrating for family farms, but I'm sorry there are simply far more pressing needs for state largesse.
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That's just not true is it. There was just a huge tax hike on business in order to give more money for the NHS. Couldn't get a clearer dividing line if you tried.
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"I dont want to upset anyone but I've got some concerns about trans women and female only spaces and I'm not sure it was fair when Lia Thomas beat all those girls" are incredibly widely held views that would get you blacklisted by some left groups but should be acceptable in the dem caucus.
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I agree it wouldn't have made any difference in this case because of his ethnicity, and the rioters and their pied pipers are racist first and immigration control advocates second. If his name had been Doug Jones then it probably would have done, but that isn't a good reason to release info anyway.