4. Starmer’s rhetoric, and the government’s plans, are actually worse than anything the Conservatives came up with. It’s hard to get your head around it, after a succession of Tory disasters. But we seem to have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/23/legal-challenges-to-infrastructure-projects-to-be-blocked-in-push-for-growth
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"What is your job description?"
Because it's *not* "make as much money as possible", not even if the money is for the whole country, not one person.
It was the duty of the government to make sure everyone...
Raising GDP is not the government's job. Fulfilling the hierarchy of needs is.
Maybe even seeks to impress him.
It is shocking and terrifying.
I was considering a return to the UK, but honestly it is like jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan.
Maybe Canada . . .
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/06/rishi-sunak-silicon-valley-sovereign-individual
There’s one thing that is strangely not being done: TAX THE RICH. The rich own our assets. Tax the assets.
More from https://youtu.be/YeH5UXYEzPE?si=Croz3ab6yDnERxfZ
At the moment the oligarchy is deflecting this prospect by pushing hate narratives about the most vulnerable and least able to self-defend.
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/06/rishi-sunak-silicon-valley-sovereign-individual
Millionaires may be able to wriggle using creative accounting, set up offshore companies or leave the UK, but their assets can’t. Tax the value of those assets and associated incomes.
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/06/rishi-sunak-silicon-valley-sovereign-individual
The worst part? They were advised against this.
(and then there's the third runway thing).