Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share? metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j... - ThreadSky

jeremycorbyn.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share?

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/jeremy-corbyn-keir-starmer-says-no-money-dont-believe-22673792/

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liz-nelson.bsky.social•3 days ago

He is very deceitful and definitely not worthy of the PM post in GB!

whoniversal.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shouldn't you be off celebrating Hamas killing children or opposing Ukraine defending itself or something?

deanburnett.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s getting to be a monthly thing….
Always the poor, the benefits, the services, the pensioners, the sick and disabled. Never the corporations, the CEO’s, the bankers, the aristocracy, the politicians!
What version of Austerity are we on now!!!!

bebsdotteragain.bsky.social•3 days ago

… and for a wealthy politician it’s a very easy choice!!

liberty21.bsky.social•1 day ago

The choice seems easy for him , effect on the vulnerable is crushingly tough.

pauldstevens.bsky.social•3 days ago

Starmer is a Tory.

jamiek2523.bsky.social•1 day ago

Get a wiggle on and launch your new left wing party

nuker.us•3 days ago

You've made a tough choice for Ukrainians: you have pushed for Bucha.

mrmoog.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's never a tough choice funding war. The whole thing is orchestrated.

puddle575.bsky.social•3 days ago

You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns. The Jam !

avetchling.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's a chance to be SEEN to be tough. And what could make a bully act "tougher" than picking on the vulnerable?
An odd value system, to say the least. #Starmer seems to find being tough on the vulnerable easier than tough on the strong. Who'd have thought.

j0hnbev.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is why:

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/health-related-benefit-claims-post-pandemic-uk-trends-and-global-context

j0hnbev.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the sickness benefit bill has increased exponentially in the last 10 years, uniquely in the uk and not in any other comparable country. On current rate of increase, the sickness benefit bill will exceed £100 billion on its own, without taking into account other welfare payments.

morpheus00.bsky.social•3 days ago

We need to offer messages of solidarity and support with Ukraine right now. Nobody wants to be poorer, but without investing in our defence, Europe will collapse under the Jackboot of Putin. You'll know what poverty feels like then.

nevet5.bsky.social•3 days ago

Putin has been president for 25 years give or take. Before him Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Brezhnev.
I've read this shit for 50 years.
I imagine it's been said a lot longer.
What's taking them so long?

morpheus00.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you think the Ukrainians imagined the invasion in February 2022? Did Poland in September 1939? And you blithely call it 'this shit'? Like it's made up? Incredible.

nevet5.bsky.social•3 days ago

Something else I've heard for a bout 20 years

' put your weapons and missiles anywhere near my border and expect a response'

morpheus00.bsky.social•3 days ago

So are you saying the UK should never have opposed Hitler?

nevet5.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anybody that invades another country should be opposed. Russia just isn't the only country that does it (they're just the only ones that are opposed)

brianjudge.bsky.social•3 days ago

They need a bogeyman to keep the money flowing from the poor and the gullible to those already wallowing in wealth! The real bogeyman is the Arms Industry!

morpheus00.bsky.social•3 days ago

A bogeyman is made up. Ask the Ukrainians if the devastation of their sovereign country is made up?

brianjudge.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Ukrainian Govt was bombing its own people and territory long before Russia invaded! https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/ukraine-used-cluster-bombs-report-charges.html#

morpheus00.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ukraine (a massively outgunned nation) used cluster bombs to repel an aggressor, and u think they had it coming? If a gang invaded my house and tried to murder my kids, I'm using whatever's at hand. You can go and run with your self righteousness mate. Hail Putin eh? #mute

darkxaur.bsky.social•3 days ago

He doesn't bite the hand that feeds him.

keithstalin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolutely terrible from Labour.

They also need to nationalise industries so that the money goes back into public services and not into the pockets of billionaires and millionaires (many living abroad)!!!!!

This is the best way to remedy the 'black hole' in the long term!!

bankwell.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, always money for war. We had 14 years of Tory austerity now Starmer sees an opportunity to appear strong/decisive à la Thatcher with the Falklands - at what cost…

More penury, social support cuts and more

When does the ordinary person get a break and expect representatives to work for them

tinkerbell321.bsky.social•3 days ago

When people stop voting politicians who only work for the 1%, how anyone could vote for a political party fully supporting a genocide beats me, it's led by a self proclaimed zionist🙄😡

tommoitfc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because Starmer and his cohorts are in thrall to their millionaire donors.

As far removed from socialism as it gets.

Shameful imposters masquerading under the proud name of Labour.

silverstar24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yep, and, as and until all political parties are funded by the state, and any form of lobbying is a criminal offence, such conflicts of interest will continue as will such responses.

tommoitfc.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m looking into how many other countries are state funded. There’s absolutely no question they all should be…

ggzznn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Let’s make egregious wealth history…

daniel136.bsky.social•3 days ago

International proletarian revolution never seemed so far away yet so necessary.

jamess1968.bsky.social•3 days ago

Evil c...s

quigonsmith.bsky.social•3 days ago

Time to send you to Moscow so Putin can run some tests and confirm whether or not you belong to Russia.

timesscary.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the rich, like their money, can move abroad and/or hide their money. The poor can’t, they are captive. Might also be because politicians are generally shit scared of non dom media owners, and also look ahead to well paid post politics careers.

headlessness.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the poor and disabled can’t afford their own Westminster lobbyists.

headlessness.bsky.social•3 days ago

This makes for good reading: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/parliament-events-mps-lobbyists-westminster-dark-arts/

silverstar24.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep, though as and until all political parties in the U.K. are state funded, and lobbying is a criminal offence, these - let’s say ( being generous) conflicts of interest will persist and the continuation of such replies will prevail

robbieduff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because it's not the poor sick disabled that atd making all the political donation (AKA bribes), it's the rich to make sure they're not taxed

eaarth.net•3 days ago

Because Starmer & co are self serving politicians ignorant of social responsibility.

nuker.us•3 days ago

Haven't seen Jeremy take any responsibility for trying to disarm Ukrainians weeks before the invasion.

https://bsky.app/profile/nuker.us/post/3ljfdlfoyfk2v

makeitsnow.bsky.social•3 days ago

get his ass jeremy

hotchkiss13.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Because
A. Power is concentrated with wealth.
B. It’s ester to take from the marginalised.
C. These are not tough choices they are the paths of least resistance.

faab64.bsky.social•3 days ago

It has been the same for centuries. There is always money for war but not for the people

adamuncamus.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think it’s because the people we elect to run our countries think that means managing an economy and think it doesn’t mean managing a society.

azlarryan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fed up with the excuses. Break up the treasury! And no excuses, let's have a wealth tax!

gerrrg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probably the same reason as to why you were never going to be allowed to be elected. It's pretty obvious that there are hefty ideological compromises to be made in the real world. Unfortunately, even PMs need to play the game.

grodder.bsky.social•3 days ago

He lies and lies and lies. Like all the rest.

amias.net•3 days ago

Two reasons: rich people vote more consistently than poor people so are the obvious target for politicians.
The other is that it is harder to tax rich people because they have much more complex arrangements and advisors, poor people get taxed PAYE with no choice.

lunaner.bsky.social•2 days ago

He isn't a socialist. He has been elected by the establishment to break the left, to increase inequality and like in Brexit, give the country to the far right... He shouldn't be the PM representing the Labour party. And we, the people, should request him, his whip and his cronies out.

breadthieves.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly!

They are tough choices for us to deal with.

Not for them to make. It seems too easy for them, doesn't it?

caeras.bsky.social•3 days ago

Always the money….. but never enough for the poor

assumedname2025.bsky.social•3 days ago

Right-wingers like Starmer believe that the sick and the poor deserve to suffer.

nuker.us•3 days ago

And Jeremy believes Ukrainians deserve even worse.

https://bsky.app/profile/nuker.us/post/3ljfdlfoyfk2v

rogerthedodger.bsky.social•3 days ago

Could possibly be because you're a socialist (i.e. you care) but Starmer definitely isn't a socialist 😉

https://skwawkbox.org/2021/02/10/starmer-banned-from-society-of-socialist-lawyers-because-demonstrably-not-a-socialist/

civilisation.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is money. It is being thrown away at customs and excise by Brexit and by slowed-investment caused by Brexit. We left because the case for leave was soundbites and the case for remain was boring. But the case for leave was lies and the case for remain was sensible

whoniversal.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only Jeremy had been Labour leader when the referendum happened, he could have actually argued against leaving

blaqjaqshellaq.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's all about making the little people pay and leaving the Big People alone...

ticgran45.bsky.social•3 days ago

How many billion to
Ukraine and on defence ?

jacob-marlowe.bsky.social•3 days ago

Still waiting for some of that wealth to trickle down to me.
Any day now...

sapiensholmiensis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trickle down economy be like

gjmchat.bsky.social•3 days ago

Why? Because too many Labour Party members failed to give you the backing you deserved as leader and went for power without principles. That's why.

wiblesworth.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bore off

wildheart-baby.bsky.social•2 days ago

He hasn't been leader for over five years, maybe find a new song.

gjmchat.bsky.social•22 hours ago

'Please Please Me' by The Beatles, a popular beat combo), was released in March 1963 and is as good today as it was when it was in the Hot Parade.

gjmchat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only when someone better comes along - and it ain't happened yet.

duncanpoundcake.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Would this have happened under Corbyn, unlikely.

The answer to the question Why? Is Starmer.

The two are directly connected.

sirwobbly.bsky.social•3 days ago

Careful Jeremy.

Openly criticise Labour and you'll risk being suspended from the... er... oh.

You know there are some things I'll never understand. One is Agent Orange being re-elected. Another is how on earth UK politics got so effed up that you got expelled from the Party.

nuker.us•3 days ago

Exactly. Working for the russians should carry a more serious judgement.

https://bsky.app/profile/nuker.us/post/3ljfdlfoyfk2v

jmarzipan.bsky.social•3 days ago

stop spamming

nuker.us•3 days ago

Stop telling me what to do, russian.

shadwell-ntt.bsky.social•3 days ago

The questions change, but the answer is always "more austerity."

mrtrellis.bsky.social•3 days ago

One day, bastard, you'll be sharing a cell with Nigel Farage.

kassandraseye.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because they’re not poor and don’t know anyone that’s poor!

mrtrellis.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah right m8 Angela Rayner has never anybody who is poor.

Don't be a cunt all your life.

kassandraseye.bsky.social•3 days ago

Abusive cunt go fuck yourself you arsehole. If you think 90k a year is poor with all your bills paid? Prick !

paulymac.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because we can't get into the private clubs and have a word in their ear, unlike the wealthy

nuker.us•3 days ago

Jeremy earned the money on the russia today, and look who got his ear 😊

https://bsky.app/profile/nuker.us/post/3ljfdlfoyfk2v

daniel136.bsky.social•3 days ago

masterpete05.bsky.social•3 days ago

As always I’m with you JC. Plenty of money to go round, but most of it sits in offshore accts. They then tell us it’s the fault of immigrants or people on benefits and sadly some believe them.