Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
they will fuck off a lot of people with that. a great number of them pensioners. perhaps shammer is relying on putting a lot of auld people into the grave before the next election.
Keir Starmer's time is up
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Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Still, means they won't have to tax the rich
Tax for the many not the few
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
their friendsStill, means they won't have to tax the rich
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Definitely would fuck me
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh it would fuck a vast number of people. it's a really shit move.
i don't understand the reasoning behind what the lp is doing, where they are really fucking off people who are at the core of labour support. they don't seem to be considering the weakness of their electoral position, nor that attacking pensioners is attacking pensioners' families too (who might be tapped in many cases to make up the shortfall in winter fuel costs), and attacking in this way single people is in a great number of cases going to be attacking young people. although the financial implications are in the hundreds of pounds, a couple of pounds a week, these are the very pounds which people who're already stretched can least afford to lose.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
sure the slogan at the lp conference will read 'for the wealthy not the workers'
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Having just lost my Dad, I've been going through the sadmin with the council to get this reduction for my old Mum. At at time when she's lost Dad's pension and DLA from her weekly budget, it is a modest, yet necessary reduction in her outgoings.
What a stupidly cuntish thing for the 'left' party of capital to consider.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
very sorry to hear that. i reckon they're just warming up and will be nastier than the nasty party
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Starmer hates poor people even more than he hates alpacas
Imagine how much hate he must feel for poor alpacas.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I don't think they're crazy enough to touch the basic income tax rate, but the tax free allowance probably won't move with inflation for a while. Which is just stealth tax on lower earners.
Someone at the LSE had an interesting idea of a "minimum tax" on income over £100k, which would specifically target the people who shuffle their money around to avoid taxes. (eg: It wouldn't affect at all someone paying the actual 45% rate, but someone shuffling things around to abuse capital gains would start paying a lot more. It would nab things other than just capital gains, too.)
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Another poll, this one from YouGov, showing that whatever the honeymoon was for Starmer it’s emphatically over.
I’ve said before, Starmer and his government are going to be very very unpopular, very quickly.
The meaning of the reassertion of the primacy of centrism and the value of having ‘the adults back in the room’ is already clear.
Piss poor managerialism, spending cuts, attacks on the vulnerable and restrictions on personal freedom. Managed decline, growth as a concept that can be willed into existence and Starmer and Reeves miserable and lifeless vision of the future is the exact opposite of the change that people are crying out for.
Like France, like Germany, like much of the EU we know where voters will turn to next
Where have all the posters gone who can explain to us why voting Labour was the only option?
I’ve said before, Starmer and his government are going to be very very unpopular, very quickly.
The meaning of the reassertion of the primacy of centrism and the value of having ‘the adults back in the room’ is already clear.
Piss poor managerialism, spending cuts, attacks on the vulnerable and restrictions on personal freedom. Managed decline, growth as a concept that can be willed into existence and Starmer and Reeves miserable and lifeless vision of the future is the exact opposite of the change that people are crying out for.
Like France, like Germany, like much of the EU we know where voters will turn to next
Where have all the posters gone who can explain to us why voting Labour was the only option?
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Don’t vote for Labour.
HeAthen
Nadgers.
Sadly none of this surprises me and I've argued that it would be what happened for quite some time (prior to joining here). I take no delight in being correct as I can see what it'll ultimately lead to.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I wouldn't really agree that it's the fault of people who voted Labour in July (although I didn't) because at that point your options are fairly limited tbh. It seems pretty obvious though even at this stage (and pre-election tbf) that there's a strong possibility of the next election producing a government way to the right of the previous one. The gleeful Starmer cheerleaders do have a case to answer there imo.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Could be worse, we could have had a tory/reform coalition. 
One problem is that we actually need taxes on the rich & clamping down on tax evasion/avoidance to finance investment in the infrastructure and alleviating poverty. That's what Corbyn and the left were advocating though, so Starmer's hatred of the left will see that as a defeat and I can't see him doing it.
One problem is that we actually need taxes on the rich & clamping down on tax evasion/avoidance to finance investment in the infrastructure and alleviating poverty. That's what Corbyn and the left were advocating though, so Starmer's hatred of the left will see that as a defeat and I can't see him doing it.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
'Refuses to rule out' doesn't really mean anything. Ministers will have all been told not to rule things out so that the papers can't piece together where the tax hikes are going to be by a process of elimination.
They'll just have to wait for the official leak 7-10 days prior to the budget.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Yvette Cooper's Home Office plans to appeal a high court verdict finding Braverman's anti-protest laws were unlawful:
www.theguardian.com
Home Office to continue appeal over protests law, says human rights group
Liberty accuses government of ‘disregard for rule of law’ after judges found Braverman’s measures were unlawful
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
I am shocked by this decision.Yvette Cooper's Home Office plans to appeal a high court verdict finding Braverman's anti-protest laws were unlawful:
Home Office to continue appeal over protests law, says human rights group
Liberty accuses government of ‘disregard for rule of law’ after judges found Braverman’s measures were unlawful
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
I'd love to say I'm surprised, but we all knew this lot were going to be continuity Tories.
HeAthen
Nadgers.
And some people even fell for it!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Labour landlords must be protected from protest.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
This is the same person who was warned by the Child Poverty Action Group, as well as disability-focused charities, that implementing planned changes to the benefits system would have a devastating impact on people, but she chose to ignore them and oversaw the horrendous Welfare Reform Act 2009. It was her and the Labour Party that started all that shit, not the Tories, smoothing the path for their successors to roll with it.
The same year she was busy plunging people further into poverty, she and her husband, that nice Ed Balls off the telly, bought a four-bedroom house in North London and registered it as their second home (rather than their home in West Yorkshire); this qualified them for up to £44,000 a year to subsidise a reported £438,000 mortgage, of which they claimed £24,400. An investigation in MPs' expenses found they had both received overpayments of £1,363. They were ordered to repay the money.
That's Yvette Cooper. She'll shit on anyone she can.
The same year she was busy plunging people further into poverty, she and her husband, that nice Ed Balls off the telly, bought a four-bedroom house in North London and registered it as their second home (rather than their home in West Yorkshire); this qualified them for up to £44,000 a year to subsidise a reported £438,000 mortgage, of which they claimed £24,400. An investigation in MPs' expenses found they had both received overpayments of £1,363. They were ordered to repay the money.
That's Yvette Cooper. She'll shit on anyone she can.
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Worth mentioning that, from what I've seen, the freezing pensioners thing seems to be a big attack line from the far right (and one that, unlike many of their other talking points, isn't based on easily-debunkable bollocks). Borne out in the fash video Boris got suggested, which seems to be relatively typical from what I've seen:
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