Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netM
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    1 year ago

    I can’t really reply to this because it’s a howl of despair, leavened with cliches. I feel for you, man, but there’s no actual content here. All I can say is that every leftwing government in history had to listen to this stuff, but very nearly all of them then went on to make things significantly better for people. That’s my reason for thinking that Labour will be better.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Labour isn’t left wing, they’re neo-liberal. They are center-right at best. Come on, man. I’m not howling with despair, I’m trying to explain the problems. If you’re not reasonable enough to engage with my points then there’s no point in having the conversation.

      Labour aren’t going to take enough action on the things that really matter. They’re honest enough to tell you that. Are they going to hugely increase funding for the NHS? They already told us that they’re not going to, they’re going to increase funding a little bit, but focus on “””efficiency”””. Are they going to stop fossil fuel subsidies? They already said no. Are they going to increase renewable subsidies to be equal to or more than fossil fuel subsidies? Nope. Are they going to institute a wealth tax, something which was described as a “no-brainer” by economics researchers? No. They completely ruled it out.

      Labour aren’t the good guys anymore, man. They’re not as evil as Tories, they’re better than the Tories no doubt, but they’re not going to save us.

      • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netM
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        1 year ago

        Again, this is nothing but noise. ‘If you ignore everything Labour are going to do, they’re going to do nothing!’ Huh. No kidding?