The way this is argued leaves no scope for disagreement - it is so clear and logical. If Steamer dares to read it, the way forward is obvious. But will he dare? He seems to be hobbled by favour-seeking actions and slick meaningless words. He needs to find his courage from somewhere, and Ugly Politix is the perfect source.
Elections in this country, along with the political spectrum in general, are broken. The public has lost faith in politicians because both Conservative (from Thatch to Sunak) and Labour (Blair to Starmer) have been promoting the interests of billionaires to the detriment of the economy and the majority. Austerity was pushed as "We are all in this together" when everyone with half an eye and a working brain cell could see that the ordinary working person was worse off and the billionaires had a lot more billions at the end of 14 years than they did at the beginning. Starmer promised to grow the economy (but more austerity is shrinking it) and to govern for the masses. So far he is delivering austerity 2.0 taking from those who will spend to grow the economy and giving to those who will invest in tax-havens to keep more of their ill-gotten wealth. The solution (according to John Maynard Keynes economics) is simple: a wealth-tax on the few hundred people with more than £10 million to provide more jobs in the public sector, bigger and fairer benefits payments to those in need of a helping hand, and stop the privatisation of prisons, police, health and other public services. As an economist with some experience, I can see that those threatening to leave (fewer than 20) will not leave just because a wealth tax is introduced to take 3% tops off their illegal and immoral wealth. The ones who do leave can go with their money because other countries will soon follow suit.
It would be good to have a chat, Mark.
I think you can more easily force movement if you can threaten to humiliate Starmer on the issue of electoral reform.
I also don't believe we can risk any further delay.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyle/p/standing-candidates-everywhere-is?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The way this is argued leaves no scope for disagreement - it is so clear and logical. If Steamer dares to read it, the way forward is obvious. But will he dare? He seems to be hobbled by favour-seeking actions and slick meaningless words. He needs to find his courage from somewhere, and Ugly Politix is the perfect source.
Elections in this country, along with the political spectrum in general, are broken. The public has lost faith in politicians because both Conservative (from Thatch to Sunak) and Labour (Blair to Starmer) have been promoting the interests of billionaires to the detriment of the economy and the majority. Austerity was pushed as "We are all in this together" when everyone with half an eye and a working brain cell could see that the ordinary working person was worse off and the billionaires had a lot more billions at the end of 14 years than they did at the beginning. Starmer promised to grow the economy (but more austerity is shrinking it) and to govern for the masses. So far he is delivering austerity 2.0 taking from those who will spend to grow the economy and giving to those who will invest in tax-havens to keep more of their ill-gotten wealth. The solution (according to John Maynard Keynes economics) is simple: a wealth-tax on the few hundred people with more than £10 million to provide more jobs in the public sector, bigger and fairer benefits payments to those in need of a helping hand, and stop the privatisation of prisons, police, health and other public services. As an economist with some experience, I can see that those threatening to leave (fewer than 20) will not leave just because a wealth tax is introduced to take 3% tops off their illegal and immoral wealth. The ones who do leave can go with their money because other countries will soon follow suit.