"Even if it does work as a strategy for winning the next election, there’s a question: why bother?"
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
A bit by me on the sheer, infuriating pointlessness of a Labour leadership that sees governing in a progressive way as a distracting from fighting the next election.
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And I'm old enough to remember the frustration & mistakes of the last Labour governments - and see them being repeated...
"But Labour’s leadership feel they don’t have to choose, and avoid opening up the biggest threat they believe they face – the revival of the left in UK politics and their grip on Labour. "
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/the-cold-electoral-cynicism-behind-keir-starmers-blue-labour-strategy/
Taxation is about pooling our resources for the greater good. It's time to reclaim that narrative from the "everyone it for themselves alone" brigade.
Priority 1: Get into power
Priority 2: Stay in power
All the rest is just window dressing 🤡
It is very clear & demonstrably effective.
They're telling workers to fuck off.
Off they are jolly well fucking.
To argue otherwise is to fall into inevitable liberal hand ringing
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Allow mainstream media to vilify the vulnerable and public opinion to follow to some extent. Then set Labour Party policy on what is popular.
So the paper editors of 5-10 years ago write the Labour manifesto.
And you see it with Brexit, net zero.
Let's bin the 2 child limit policy and protect & nurture our future generations..?
"Fuck off"
Another justification for this policy that might have been subtly put forward or at least implied at the time, alongside fairness, is one of social engineering (not that that term would have been used): that applying a cap would limit birthrates to 'responsible' numbers.
Putting aside whether that's necessary in a country with declining birthrates, which are already well below two per woman, needing a viable workforce, and with an aging population needing carers (for people who often don't like immigration), it should be clear by now that it's not even working.
We just have more impoverished children.
Labour's position on this is entirely indefensible. It's bad policy and it's bad politics. But then there's nothing unique about that.
That article is spectacularly wrong, especially after the pip withdrawal, smaller fuel allowance, and second child benefit. Maybe no conservative government, but Labour were elected specifically to make things better.
Although, they did not really win the election on ideas, it was a big "Tory out" drive underpinning everything. Their messaging sucks.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.”
I really don’t understand what they are hoping to achieve.
This continues; by 2100 Norfolk is underwater and we've forgotten how to make door hinges (again).
Government policy development by "focus group" myopic at best and still they're looking in the wrong direction.