This is a misreading … inheritance tax increases for wealthy landowners, VAT on private school fees, investment in the NHS & education, pay increases for public sector workers, improved employment rights … there are lots of good things happening within the very tight economic & financial constraints - ThreadSky

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markhirst.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

This is a misreading … inheritance tax increases for wealthy landowners, VAT on private school fees, investment in the NHS & education, pay increases for public sector workers, improved employment rights … there are lots of good things happening within the very tight economic & financial constraints

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henrik270864.bsky.social•23 hours ago

2.6 percent pay increases will come from within budgets, so in other words, patients and children will suffer. A wealth tax would sort it out but Starmer is protecting the billionaires.

markhirst.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Above inflation pay increases last year & difficult choices have to be made & I say this as someone who works in the NHS … my colleagues & I will ensure patients don’t suffer. I personally would support a wealth tax but this wasn’t in the manifesto and so there isn’t actually a mandate for one.

henrik270864.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Difficult choices don’t have to be made. Starmer has made political choices keeping the wealthy and the right wing media on his side. This could break the Labour Party.

markhirst.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Or it could save it and allow it to continue to slowly but surely address the disastrous impact of 15 yrs of Tory govt. i think we’ll have to agree to disagree but my view is that Labour is taking us in the right direction & we are much better off under this Labour govt than any alternative.

henrik270864.bsky.social•21 hours ago

It’s sad when we finally get a Labour gov, they hit the vulnerable harder than the Tories did. Labour paid the price for it yesterday and Labour MPs talking to the i and G, are despairing. This is the last Labour gov for a very long time. People will remember the Labour austerity.

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