Richard MurphyJul 9, 2023
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?...

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Psych 🇪🇺🍄🌳🐸Jul 15, 2023
Show threadPete / Syllopsium

@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.

Jul 10, 2023 at 10:07amWeb
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. 😂