Uncle Slacky
George MonbiotLabour might wonder why, less than a year into a new government promising “change”, people are giving up on it in droves. So let me help it out with a few clues.
1. Cutting disability benefits
2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance.
3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap ....
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4. Rigidly sticking to outdated, inappropriate and socially destructive fiscal rules.
5. Rejecting a wealth tax and other redistributive measures.
6. Imposing further austerity on government departments and public services.
7. Saying nothing against the escalating genocide in Gaza.
8. Ripping up the laws protecting wildlife and habitats.
9. Taunting, insulting and abusing people who are trying to protect the living world.
10. Expanding airports and trunk roads.
11. Pouring £21.7bn+ into a CCS white elephant that will INCREASE greenhouse gas emissions.
12. Adopting Reform’s messaging, branding and performative cruelty towards asylum seekers.
13. Proposing yet another draconian anti-protest law, while fighting in court to defend the worst of the Tory laws.
14. Failing to address the crisis facing trans people ...
I've doubtless left some crucial issue out: please feel free to add.
But in summary: if you sought to alienate supporters, destroy your electoral prospects, leave people feeling cynical, disillusioned and ready to embrace any lying tosser who says he'll kick over the system, this is how to do it.
ScotsBear 🏴@georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
The destruction of Labour as anything but a wholly subservient instrument of State is exactly what was sought, the trap laid for the British electorate since before Starmer even rose to prominence.
The destruction of Labour as anything but a wholly subservient instrument of State is exactly what was sought, the trap laid for the British electorate since before Starmer even rose to prominence.
JuneSim63@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Suspending MPs for sticking to their Labour principles
Suspending MPs for sticking to their Labour principles