gillymg.bsky.social
New Scot for a fair, progressive, European Independent Scotland. He/him
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I think we’re possibly heading for recession. My own anecdotal measure of the IT market has shrunk considerably, from around 50 to 70 jobs a day UK wide in my area to 6 or 7. It’s been an indicator in the past of recession. There may be other factors, but indicative of a failing economy.
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No I have, I just despair at how some of the poorest pensioners in Europe become the target, how the reason for this payment is never examined, how politicians observing decades of cuts come up with the same solution whilst poverty, inequality and the wealth of the 1% are the only true growth areas.
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Sorry, this is absurd. 14 years, effectively 40 plus years of austerity, oligarchy, wealth, greed out of control and the first target of a new Government (‘because there’s no money’) is pensioners? And then disability benefits? Politically inept, economically illiterate and base cowardice.
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It’s not that surprising. It’s an ex mining area, a ‘legacy Thatcher’ area, working class communities blighted by decades of underinvestment like the rest of the UK. That Farage didn’t break through is some silver lining. And the Tories in Holyrood will look on in horror. Needs further analysis.
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I’ll take that as some form of comfort! At least Reform came in 3rd and the Tories are nowhere.
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Reading the book ‘Get In’ about Starmer and McSweeney’s campaign to get Labour elected, there seems to have been little or no idea of what to do once achieved. Someone with few principles or any creative thinking, political nous or indeed basic economic literacy is now PM.
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Although the chapter waiting to be written, should be reserved for Keir Starmer, whose quest for power, without really having any idea what to do with it (as detailed in the excellent book ‘Get In’) hands the country over to Farage.
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This is so depressing. Fiscal rules that have no ‘economic’ basis other than to deliver austerity. We only have to look around us to see how neoliberalism has ruined society except for those in the ‘new aristocracy’, and we’re supposed to be grateful for a few more crumbs off the table.
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Yes.
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To be fair they (or previous Farage incarnations) have been getting this media coverage on next to no % polling and no parliamentary or other representation. So I don’t know how you can explain that other than media bias.
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Finding the money’s the easy part, it’s controlling inflation and proper regulation of the bond markets that’s the hard part, and removing the 2 child cap is hardly going to be inflationary findingmoneyfilm.com
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Spinal tap II or III (I thought I’d heard there was going to be a sequel).
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I’m struggling to remember a Government with this sort of majority alienating its backbenchers so much this early in its term. Decades of austerity, and no wonder the far right is on the rise, yet nobody wants to ditch this neoliberal economic insanity. Bring back Keynes for God’s sake.
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And they have Freedom of Movement too!
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Even Nixon brought in price controls. Redistribution of wealth equals the redistribution of power and political control which is why it’s not going to happen under this Government.
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As workers’ hours are cut to compensate Employers for the NI hike. It was meant to be grown up politics but it’s the usual disjointed economic illiteracy.
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Even 54% of reform voters want closer relations with Europe according to the Yougov poll done recently!
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Sophiaphobia is exactly it, the ‘don’t look up’ syndrome, fear of being wrong.
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It depends on what day of the week it is. You can trawl through his public statements and find polar opposite positions taken at any time. Can’t be trusted.
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Brilliant. Says everything that needs saying. It’s time for Starmer to go (and Reeves). How can anyone ever trust a thing he ever says again, when he does an about turn on immigration cosplaying Powell?
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Full Fash. But at least his dad was a tool maker.