Keir Starmer's time is up

[littlebabyjesus]

It's still that shit line that 'pain is needed', though.

UK economic growth this year has been strong and inflation is down. Ironically, given the mess the tories did cause, it was sorting itself out by the time of the election. This government has decided that there is a fiscal gap to fill by taking money for poor people and pensioners. This is a decision to create that gap. We shouldn't lose sight of that.

These would not be the metrics I would first turn to to measure success, but they would, all of them, so they're being disingenuous.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And it's a depressing pattern. This is another attack on universalism. We should expect more.

 

[PR1Berske]

Ed Davey is coming across as more radical than Starmer

Tax rises needed to avert austerity, Starmer says​

The LibDems find themselves in the weird position of being to the left of both government and opposition

 

[brogdale]

The LibDems find themselves in the weird position of being to the left of both government and opposition

An easy feat in opposition and, since 2010, we don't have to wonder what would happen to all that 'leftiness' once given a sniff of the upholstery of the ministerial car fleet.

 

[teuchter]

Wankers. Why not increase tax on motorists by 50% too if we are all in together

Let's see what they are going to do with the fuel duty freeze.

 

[Pickman's model]

An easy feat in opposition and, since 2010, we don't have to wonder what would happen to all that 'leftiness' once given a sniff of the upholstery of the ministerial car fleet trough

C4U

 

[Pickman's model]

Wankers. Why not increase tax on motorists by 50% too if we are all in together

You've clearly seen the plagiarist Reeves' notes

 

[brogdale]

C4U

innit?

 

[PTK]

What I find astonishing is the way in which the Leadership of the Labour Party has tied itself in knots about the definition of "working people". Why not simply use the term "employees"?

 

[Pickman's model]

What I find astonishing is the way in which the Leadership of the Labour Party has tied itself in knots about the definition of "working people". Why not simply use the term "employees"?

Because there are working people who are self-employed perhaps

 

[brogdale]

What I find astonishing is the way in which the Leadership of the Labour Party has tied itself in knots about the definition of "working people". Why not simply use the term "employees"?

What I find even more astonishing is that they didn't just stick with the staple of 14 years; (hard) working families

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Let's see what they are going to do with the fuel duty freeze.

Looks like that’s not going ahead. So much for their green agenda eh?

 

[PTK]

Wankers. Why not increase tax on motorists by 50% too if we are all in together

Yeah, I thought that.

 

[Pickman's model]

Looks like that’s not going ahead. So much for their green agenda eh?

Their agenda is as green as blair's foreign policy was ethical

 

[PR1Berske]

Looks like that’s not going ahead. So much for their green agenda eh?

It's unforced error after unforced error.

 

[Serene]

Starmers a scumbag, hitting the poorest and most vulnerable in society, people who are soft targets. Shame upon the dirty scumbags.

 

[ID47]

Starmers a scumbag, hitting the poorest and most vulnerable in society, people who are soft targets. Shame upon the dirty scumbags.

There was never a cold and harsh enough Gulag ever built for that bastard Starmer.

Please excuse my extreme loathing, I despise the cnut beyond words.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The LibDems find themselves in the weird position of being to the left of both government and opposition

Same as last time Labour was in power and that didn't last...

 

[Elpenor]

And it's a depressing pattern. This is another attack on universalism. We should expect more.

All in the name of growth. Which certainly doesn’t have a universal impact

 

[brogdale]

Jesus, I've just seen what he said publicly about the bus cap today; he really is a good deal more sociopathic than i first realised...

“I do know that this matters, particularly in rural buses, and that’s why I’m able to say to you this morning that in the budget, we will announce there’ll be a £3 cap on bus fares until the end of 2025, because I know how important it is. So that’ll be there in the budget on Wednesday.”

I know how much this matters that I'll impose a 50% increase.

 

[Elpenor]

Has this arsehole ever even taken a bus?

 

[ID47]

Has this arsehole ever even taken a bus?

Hopefully his bus trip will come one day.

 

[weltweit]

I am a working person, and as such I expect my pay packet to remain the same after the budget!
Starmer said so!

What else however? the devil will be in the details.

How much for example will it cost me to run my car?
Because living in the sticks, it isn't busses we rely on, we rely on our cars!

 

[lazythursday]

The bus cap is basically the only decent progressive policy the last government implemented. A 50% rise. What a slap in the fucking face. And zero extra for hard working motorists of course

 

[PTK]

Hopefully his bus trip will come one day. View attachment 448780

I don't think they have buses like that in Britain.

 

[ID47]

I don't think they have buses like that in Britain.

It's the thought that counts.

 

[PTK]

It's the thought that counts.

In this country, as far as I know, prisoners are transported in those long vehicles that are divided into cells.

 

[Pickman's model]

I am a working person, and as such I expect my pay packet to remain the same after the budget!
Starmer said so!

What else however? the devil will be in the details.

How much for example will it cost me to run my car?
Because living in the sticks, it isn't busses we rely on, we rely on our cars!

Your pay packet will remain the same and that's the problem

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Starmer’s masterful political touch revealed again. He’s the centrist Liz Truss:

 

[Elpenor]

Not sure if the 25% council tax discount for people living alone is in the firing line on Wednesday, there were rumours a while ago

Cant he just tax the fucking rich