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And if you love Statista so much, here it is showing a near 100% increase in rents
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Yes, and 2% doesn't even come close to undoing the price inflation that's taken place since COVID. We have MILES to go. The close of living crisis isn't close to ending. Just scroll down to the chart on the government website and measure it from December 2019 (£1044 per month) to April 2024 (£1332)
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And no, your source on rent increases is clearly extremely wrong. The official government website shows rent increases for the entirety of Great Britain has been 30%. In certain areas of the country it has been close to 100%: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...
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Real wages have risen by 2% www.economicsobservatory.com/the-uk-labou...
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They've increased extremely marginally. The increase is nowhere near the level of price increases we've seen since before COVID. The average monthly rent in the UK has increased by 100% since 2019. Add in energy bills (which have skyrocketed too). Wage growth isn't close to that
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I mean if you think we're past or even at the end of a cost of living crisis you're either extremely privileged or utterly deluded. What exactly has happened to make people's lives significantly cheaper in the last few months?
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Of dependants? What's their monthly rent and bills? We're slap bang in the middle of a cost of living crisis where things are more expensive than they've ever been. You haven't got a clue what it's like to be working class in the UK in 2025 if you think people won't miss £30 per month
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God you're a moron. You do realise that using the welfare state as a means to produce economic growth is a tried and tested success? Do you realise how stupid you are? And how do you know if someone on £1600 per month won't miss £30? Do you think everyone on that has the same outgoings? Same number
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They haven't. The idea that former Labour members under Corbyn have flocked to the Greens en masse is nonsense
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Month. Over a third of UK workers are living month-to-month with no spare cash for emergencies. With skyrocketing bills, extra money for buses adds up massively. People like you are so out of touch it's unbelievable
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No, you don't understand how government finances work, because giving money to ordinary people is cyclical economics, e.i. you get it back through tax. It's not wreckless spending. And you clearly have no fucking clue how so many people across the country live if you think they won't miss £30 per...
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You clearly don't understand how government finances work, Ian. And yes, a £1 increase in bus fares will make a big difference to the lives of working people. That's £30 a month for some people, which is huge. Capping fares at £2 was an incredibly popular policy for a reason.
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There's been way too many own goals. The £2 bus fare cap is set to rise to £3 at the end of the year too. It's stuff like that, that makes a tangible difference to the everyday lives of working people, that puts you in this position.
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Remove the child benefit cap, don't go after people on benefits and don't remove the winter winter fuel allowance (two huge own goals), impose a 2% wealth tax on assets above £10m and put the majority of it towards building social housing.
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People keep saying stuff like this but there's tonnes of low hanging fruit that would make a fat bigger difference than a watered down employment rights bill that Labour have ignored. There's 0 reason to believe they'll address them down the line either
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That's poor analysis. Hard truths are fine if you set out a clear vision as to how you're going to improve people's lives long-term rather than just cutting regulations and hoping the private sector sort everything out - all while splashing benefits for society's most vulnerable.
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It depends what you deem "successful". They're successful (to a degree) for those inhabitants but for affluent states to exist, there have to be losers, and there are many, many losers. Capitalism is international and does not exist in a vacuum.
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I mean, they kind of have been doing for a while. They've obviously used a tonne of fossil fuels to get their economy to this point but they've been transition to green energy at a far quicker pace than most other large economies for years
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Purely in terms of our labour force I think there are reasons to be cautious. Historically we didn't lose too many of our brightest to the EU but I'm not sure that'll be the case now. UK is nowhere near as attractive as it once was. Prevalence of remote working will see us lose more than we used to
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Every Labour support zones in on minor policy victories that barely scratch the surface of the problem at hand while conveniently ignoring major policy failures that will ensure the continued decline of the country. Those breakfast clubs are a completely meagre policy.
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How could you ever be surprised by liberals being meek? That's quite literally the foundation of liberal politics
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Who exactly repeats that on a weekly basis? I live in England and even in the mainstream, that conversation only ever takes place about teams that don't have the technical ceiling to facilitate that style. There's also a conversation about the homogenous adoption of certain styles, which is fair
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Why wouldn't anyone be perplexed by dogma? The team I have no doubt you're referring to went on to lose 6-3 after you posted this, and they did so by repeating habitual errors. Nobody's questioning the value of top ball playing defenders, but "refusing" shouldn't be praised in this context
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Here's the circle you're talking about: centrists win power and lay the foundations for the rise of the far right by ignoring every structural issue in society -> centrists ask the left to back them (despite never being willing to do the inverse) in order to stop the far right -> repeat
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But if they got the most votes, and Barnier's party only managed 6% of the votes, then surely the last democratic option is a left wing PM? Like, what's Barnier even doing there in the first place?
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Inequality has been on the rise in the US for decade. It's beyond simplistic to try and put it down to a small period of unemployment, especially when that's only measuring income and not total wealth. COVID just expedited a process of asset hoarding that had been happening for years prior
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Just look at the way the US is structured. You have entire states being left to die as wealth inequality surges and both labour and capital becomes more concentrated. It's not hard to see why Trump came to power in the first place.
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Yeah, living standards have been either stagnant or falling here for a long, long time. It's much more pronounced outside of London too
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That's literally not true. Wage growth 2021-2024 was 17.4 percent while inflation was above 20. Then add to that, wealth inequality grew by nearly a quarter between 2020-2022
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The political atmosphere is entirely related to the cost of living. Fascism makes no ground when living standards are palpably improving and or/thriving for those outside of the wealthiest sections of society. It's really that simple.
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Vast majority of this team won't go to the U21 Euros though. Only Iturbe, Cubarsi, Huijsen and Arnau are likely to go