I know what you mean I’m absolutely beside myself with horror and anger at the way they are juggernauting or trying to , with their hideous disregard for humanity hunan rights duty of care . I was worried that they would become like this as soon as they started on reducing winter fuel allowance etc now they are blatantly ignoring those who are the most vulnerable and in need of help . In all my life I and others have tried to keep fighting for peoples rights and we are a country whose diversity is pure gold . Labour have , it seems, allowed Farage and his trumpian ilk a louder voice than other parties with more MPs in Parliament. At first I thought they were being naive now we know they are alongside the same path .
I’m not sure they are inept per se more letting their true intentions out they have no care it seems to me . Whatever mask they wore has definitely been removed
Bang on, Bear. To quote an elderly neighbour, 'It makes I proper savage.' And sad.
This is it in a nutshell:
'Just imagine if we had a government that treated the right-wing press like they treat people on Universal Credit - we’d have peace on earth by Wednesday.'
We all have to understand that this version of the Labour party is being truthful to themselves. THIS IS WHAT THEY BELIEVE. It's comforting to think they're somehow being influenced by Farage, but I really don't think they are. Keir's cabinet are right wing. They always have been. We were tricked.
Here’s a suggestion: bring in a law that 70% of every companies profits has to be reinvested into the business and not transferred into off-shore accounts. That would create growth and the spending power and tax contributions of every eligible workers life. Or, am I in cloud cuckoo land?
Cuckoo I'm afraid. Not that your idea doesn't sound good but when govt dictates how business should be run it's getting into authoritism that wouldn't go down well.
To stop the endless flow of untaxed money into offshore accounts my idea would be to make the rule that money earned in Britain is taxed is Britain no matter where the business is based. We'd make a fortune from Facebook alone.
I’d pull the plug on all the tech bros platforms until they accept British regulations and all taxes. The world doesn’t revolve around them, even if that’s their aim!
Unfortunately TwitternowX doesn't make any money so we won't see any of Musk's dosh but that is one platform that needs banning from the UK. The tech bros have 2 ways of screwing us over that I can see. Manipulating the narrative vie propagandised social media platforms or by simply buying power directly by 'donating' to politicians or parties. I was so disappointed when Trump didn't deport Musk and seize all his assets as he threatened to do earlier this year. Why are they all such incredibly nasty people? Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel. Utterly foul individuals.
Reactive politics never works! lack of vision from Labour… they keep going on about growth but have introduced not one policy that actually delivers on that promise… not one policy which supports SMEs and we have seen from example after example that making business easy for SMEs proves to be an engine for growth.
'basic competence tied to basic fairness' - nailed it.
Of course that's never going to please everybody, but surely they are not so blind as to see this would be absolute kryptonite for all of the reform/tory/ukip hatred and performative cruelty? Surely?? Or must we sadly accept that, no, this is absolutely who they are? Shameful.
They tossed away their values is precisely the problem. They’re scared little kids letting consultants dictate some Frankenstein monstrous policies that have no coherence and are detached from any values.
It's grimmer by the day. And no sense that there are overarching systems that affect individual choices, no attempt to state values and show how political choices might reflect them.
Its incredible how incomeptent and unprincipled the Labour Government has been. It has fallen off a cliff in such a short time. Power has really warped it to an extent it is unrecogignisable. The acid test now for me of any future candidate who wants my vote will be the tax system. Are they prepared to make it fairer and more progressive to meet the country's needs. I believe a candidate willing to do that has a good chance of implementing fairer policies on immigration and will tackle inequality. Nothing else will now move the dial for me. I am sick of career politicians refusing to do the right thing because they believe it diminishes their chances of re-election. They choose continued office rather than real power to change things. Labour had the political capital to turn this ship around and instead the have steered it further up shit creek.
Basic competence tied to basic fairness is indeed what I want to see from this government. The proposed hostile treatment of all immigrants, legal or otherwise, doesn't fit that expectation when so many of them are fleeing from our former colonies or theatres of war. My overall impression is that the government takes too much notice of the hostile corporate media which seems to reflect a loss of self confidence during the long austerity period. Our chancellor is bright and knowledgeable but restrained by panic from within. It was a mistake to campaign on a promise of no tax increases but it could have been done by adjusting tax allowances instead of thresholds at the lower income levels. If the majority of MPs will stop panicking and bring sensible debate to the immigration proposals, they should devolve into a practical new policy without cruelty. However, I am not holding my breath. Keep writing, Bear.
I have been bending over backwards to get my head around Labour's disastrous policies. The WFA, OK. It needed to be means tested, they just did it clumsily with too low a bar. The Welfare Reforms were harder (much harder!) to swallow but the back benchers put a halt to that gallop off a cliff - sort of - so the party (if not its leaders) were still on track.
The attacks on protest stuck in my throat but Palestine Action were a bunch of tossers and once proscribed as 'terrorists' it made it illegal to support them so fair enough. Sort of.
Then there's Israel. Oh dear. So much for moral leadership.
But now this.
NO.
This is WAY over the line.
Whether or not it's all the fault of Morgan McSweeney (Labour's very own Dominic Cummings) something is very wrong at No10 and it needs to stop.
I'm sitting here absolutely furious and horrified at the headlines I've just read in the Guardian.
I've had to drag my jaw up off the floor.
I'm truly gobsmacked.
I'm just lost for words.
I don't now when I've been more angry and ashamed of a so-called socialist government.
So far I've written to my MP, but I wish I didn't feel so helpless...
I know what you mean I’m absolutely beside myself with horror and anger at the way they are juggernauting or trying to , with their hideous disregard for humanity hunan rights duty of care . I was worried that they would become like this as soon as they started on reducing winter fuel allowance etc now they are blatantly ignoring those who are the most vulnerable and in need of help . In all my life I and others have tried to keep fighting for peoples rights and we are a country whose diversity is pure gold . Labour have , it seems, allowed Farage and his trumpian ilk a louder voice than other parties with more MPs in Parliament. At first I thought they were being naive now we know they are alongside the same path .
and how can they be so politically inept?
I’m not sure they are inept per se more letting their true intentions out they have no care it seems to me . Whatever mask they wore has definitely been removed
Wrote to mine this morning too. We should deluge their in-boxes & post.
I’ve lost track of the times I’ve written waited weeks sometimes months just to get their usual “copy paste “ reply
Bang on, Bear. To quote an elderly neighbour, 'It makes I proper savage.' And sad.
This is it in a nutshell:
'Just imagine if we had a government that treated the right-wing press like they treat people on Universal Credit - we’d have peace on earth by Wednesday.'
JFC, hope that *is* an invention by the Sunday Times! Unfortunately, it sounds all too likely.
I loathe this race to be the nastiest.
We all have to understand that this version of the Labour party is being truthful to themselves. THIS IS WHAT THEY BELIEVE. It's comforting to think they're somehow being influenced by Farage, but I really don't think they are. Keir's cabinet are right wing. They always have been. We were tricked.
Here’s a suggestion: bring in a law that 70% of every companies profits has to be reinvested into the business and not transferred into off-shore accounts. That would create growth and the spending power and tax contributions of every eligible workers life. Or, am I in cloud cuckoo land?
Cuckoo I'm afraid. Not that your idea doesn't sound good but when govt dictates how business should be run it's getting into authoritism that wouldn't go down well.
To stop the endless flow of untaxed money into offshore accounts my idea would be to make the rule that money earned in Britain is taxed is Britain no matter where the business is based. We'd make a fortune from Facebook alone.
I’d pull the plug on all the tech bros platforms until they accept British regulations and all taxes. The world doesn’t revolve around them, even if that’s their aim!
Unfortunately TwitternowX doesn't make any money so we won't see any of Musk's dosh but that is one platform that needs banning from the UK. The tech bros have 2 ways of screwing us over that I can see. Manipulating the narrative vie propagandised social media platforms or by simply buying power directly by 'donating' to politicians or parties. I was so disappointed when Trump didn't deport Musk and seize all his assets as he threatened to do earlier this year. Why are they all such incredibly nasty people? Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel. Utterly foul individuals.
Money corrupts? Becomes a mental illness when you have too much? Idk.
(Realise this was a rhetorical question 😉)
Reactive politics never works! lack of vision from Labour… they keep going on about growth but have introduced not one policy that actually delivers on that promise… not one policy which supports SMEs and we have seen from example after example that making business easy for SMEs proves to be an engine for growth.
Nailed it again Bear, great writing!
How to win votes and influence people?
'basic competence tied to basic fairness' - nailed it.
Of course that's never going to please everybody, but surely they are not so blind as to see this would be absolute kryptonite for all of the reform/tory/ukip hatred and performative cruelty? Surely?? Or must we sadly accept that, no, this is absolutely who they are? Shameful.
Dear Bear, thank you for yet again writing my thoughts, but so much more eloquently than I.
Bear, greetings.
Those ruling the roost in the Labour government have reached the stage where there values are aligned with this cruel shit. They believe in it.
Initially their foul ups on WFA and NI could be excused away as inexperience.
No more.
Starmer and McSweeney have clearly appointed the daughter of immigrants to shit on their successors for the ‘optics’.
And the hatchet faced horror is so desperate for power and status, to belong, that she has gone along with it. A spineless weakling.
Anger doesn’t describe my emotion.
You may recall that I’m a trustee of a refugee support charity.
I see the people the Home Secretary is othering when I visit the office.
People who have fled all sorts of horrors.
This is beneath contempt.
They tossed away their values is precisely the problem. They’re scared little kids letting consultants dictate some Frankenstein monstrous policies that have no coherence and are detached from any values.
It's grimmer by the day. And no sense that there are overarching systems that affect individual choices, no attempt to state values and show how political choices might reflect them.
Its incredible how incomeptent and unprincipled the Labour Government has been. It has fallen off a cliff in such a short time. Power has really warped it to an extent it is unrecogignisable. The acid test now for me of any future candidate who wants my vote will be the tax system. Are they prepared to make it fairer and more progressive to meet the country's needs. I believe a candidate willing to do that has a good chance of implementing fairer policies on immigration and will tackle inequality. Nothing else will now move the dial for me. I am sick of career politicians refusing to do the right thing because they believe it diminishes their chances of re-election. They choose continued office rather than real power to change things. Labour had the political capital to turn this ship around and instead the have steered it further up shit creek.
Basic competence tied to basic fairness is indeed what I want to see from this government. The proposed hostile treatment of all immigrants, legal or otherwise, doesn't fit that expectation when so many of them are fleeing from our former colonies or theatres of war. My overall impression is that the government takes too much notice of the hostile corporate media which seems to reflect a loss of self confidence during the long austerity period. Our chancellor is bright and knowledgeable but restrained by panic from within. It was a mistake to campaign on a promise of no tax increases but it could have been done by adjusting tax allowances instead of thresholds at the lower income levels. If the majority of MPs will stop panicking and bring sensible debate to the immigration proposals, they should devolve into a practical new policy without cruelty. However, I am not holding my breath. Keep writing, Bear.
I have been bending over backwards to get my head around Labour's disastrous policies. The WFA, OK. It needed to be means tested, they just did it clumsily with too low a bar. The Welfare Reforms were harder (much harder!) to swallow but the back benchers put a halt to that gallop off a cliff - sort of - so the party (if not its leaders) were still on track.
The attacks on protest stuck in my throat but Palestine Action were a bunch of tossers and once proscribed as 'terrorists' it made it illegal to support them so fair enough. Sort of.
Then there's Israel. Oh dear. So much for moral leadership.
But now this.
NO.
This is WAY over the line.
Whether or not it's all the fault of Morgan McSweeney (Labour's very own Dominic Cummings) something is very wrong at No10 and it needs to stop.
Now.