Richard Murphy
Reeves and Starmer: maintainers of the status quo https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/07/09/reeves-and-starmer-maintainers-of-the-status-quo/ How did Labour come to be led by two people so profoundly conservative, as Reeves and Starmer so very obviously are on any issue you can think of?
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
Jul 9, 2023 at 8:29amWeb
Show threadPedestriansfirstJul 9, 2023
@RichardJMurphy Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper at George Osbornes wedding. Says it all. #Labour #Tories #SpotTheDifference
Show threadRed DogJul 9, 2023
@RichardJMurphy Because winning the political game of elections is all that matters to these people, rather than anything messy like ethics and doing good for others
Show thread@[email protected]Jul 9, 2023
@RichardJMurphy It's perfectly obvious why and how, if you listen to what people in positions of power and influence say and do, and have a memory longer than two days.
Show threadRichard R LeeJul 9, 2023

#UnElectable #ToriesInDisguise.

@RichardJMurphy

Show threadkeplernikoJul 9, 2023
@RichardJMurphy I remember when my Labour-supporting friend shared the news Reeves would be shadow Chancellor and said he thought I’d like her, and I (who was a member of the Lib Dems at the time) was confused and thought, that’s probably not a good thing for Labour then.
Show threadSamaelJul 9, 2023
@RichardJMurphy I'm not sure that Starmer is necessarily ideologically conservative, but he does appear to be going to the oligarchy as a supplicant, begging for permission to be allowed to win the next election.
Show threadPete / SyllopsiumJul 10, 2023

@RichardJMurphy You're bright enough to know the answer to this. Follow the Tony Blair playbook - first get in power *then* effect change.

Labour tried a vaguely left wing manifesto last election, it produced their worst loss in decades.

Which isn't to say Labour aren't offensively to the right at the moment, but their attitudes on race, trans rights, health, and the economy are still better than the Tories. Get the Tories out first, hope that Labour can be moderated by at least one of the other parties.

Show threadInky TartarsJul 15, 2023

@syllopsium @RichardJMurphy

So, instead of being asked to vote FOR something, our only realistic options are voting for a LESSER evil on the "hope" it will be less bad?

I love the deceptive way you reduce the 2019 election loss to a simple - it was the left-wing manifesto that was the problem.

For those of us with an actual functioning memory, that piece of historical negationism doesn't really stand up. 😂

Show threadAxel FoleyJul 15, 2023
@RichardJMurphy There are no socialists in the PLP, not one.
Show threadMax : Max MaxJul 15, 2023
@RichardJMurphy factionalism, the fate of every major party under a first-past-the-post system. We need #proportionalrepresentation