Let's Pretend to be Labour

1966_and_all_that

1966_and_all_that

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So, there we have it. No Tory policies so let's steal Labour ones. But, but we want hard line Tory policies...say the backbenchers...we want Thatcher! No, no, no say Rish! and Hunt. We're going to get stuffed by Labour so let's pretend we're them.

Bring on the election, I say.
 
tommytwojags said:
Well we know about the non-dom issue, which according to Jeremy Hunt was Tory policy from way back. What Labour policies have they stolen?
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According to Jeremy Hunt. A known liar who forgot he owned 7 houses. Of course you did. A mistake any of us could make.
 
Because of fiscal drag, tax will increase by average more than the cut in NI.

Duplicitous nonsense from the Tories, as always.

The public sector will be hammered again. Where? There have been at least 25 efficiency reviews over the last couple of decades, yet they still claim they can find another 15%. Utter shite.
 
The problem for the Tories is that the longer you're in power, it ends up becoming increasingly difficult to solve problems that weren't either caused or continually ignored by you in the first place. Coming to the dispatch box and implying that you're getting the country growing or putting it on a sound footing, it begs the main question of why it wasn't in the first place and when you've been in power for 14 years, there's only one possible answer to that question.
That's why you rarely get the same party in power for more than 10-15 years - because you end up running out of excuses, and the ones you do come up with start to sound increasingly ridiculous to the electorate.
 
tommytwojags said:
Well we know about the non-dom issue, which according to Jeremy Hunt was Tory policy from way back. What Labour policies have they stolen?
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Yesterday's budget was all about trying to wreck Labour's ability to sort out the economy. We are used to Chancellors running political budgets in an election year but no-one, until Hunt yesterday, has ever done it with such venomous intent towards their successor. I mentioned above, two policies that are embedded into Labour's pledges and which Hunt 'stole'. One was in order to anticipate a Labour Government and that was to abolish non-dom tax status. Yes, this has been discussed in Tory circles in the past. However, when Labour proposed this very same measure two years ago, the Conservatives scoffed that it was an anti-competitive gimmick. Now the Tories have stolen the idea in order to make life difficult for Labour, without actually proposing a new system for non-domiciled taxpayers to put in its place.

Hunt also went out of his way to laud the need for regional regeneration - another policy embedded in Labour's pledges. Here he spoke of
“historic underinvestment in our nations and regions”. Well that would certainly include the last 14 years of Tory neglect. Only, in Hunt's world the regions he highlighted for urgent levelling up include new devolution deals for Surrey and Buckinghamshire. He also promised £242m that he said would build up to 8,000 homes in Barking Riverside and Canary Wharf – as well as attracting life sciences firms to the east London financial district. Yep, urgent assistance for the forgotten, deindustrialised regions of Britain. Strangely, other areas he name-checked as being due to benefit from £100m of levelling up funding sit in constituencies that will be key battlegrounds in the upcoming general election. Odd that.

No, at every turn of the budget speech Hunt's intention was to make life difficult for an incoming Labour Government. If it wasn't for the fact that this will, in turn, make life more difficult for the poor, the vulnerable and for struggling families, such peevishness could simply be shrugged off. But this is about governing for the country. So it can't.
 
  1. The IFS says neither party is "acknowledging the scale of the choices and trade-offs that will face us after the election"
We are ucked
 
I doubt any party, including labour would have performed much better given the pandemic, Ukraine and now Israel/Hamas, and Houthis targeting ships in the Red Sea.

Three terms is it though, people just think it’s time for change.
 
Matesrates said:
I doubt any party, including labour would have performed much better given the pandemic, Ukraine and now Israel/Hamas, and Houthis targeting ships in the Red Sea.

Three terms is it though, people just think it’s time for change.
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Liz Truss
Lying to parliament, sleaze, seemingly corrupt contracts dished out
Austerity
Brexit deal

We can do far better than this.
 
If i pretended to be Labour then how shit life must have been for the last fourteen years. Fcuk me, there's more to life than politics but reading so many posts on here some of you seem to live lives full of hatred for every waking moment with your obsessions.
 
20togo said:
If i pretended to be Labour then how shit life must have been for the last fourteen years. Fcuk me, there's more to life than politics but reading so many posts on here some of you seem to live lives full of hatred for every waking moment with your obsessions.
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I'm not sure you can equate posting a few barbed messages on here with an obsession.
 
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