UK Politics

[lost]

Potentially a good idea but labour would get wiped out in the south and I'm not sure he's got the policies to win back the red wall:

 

 

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None of it matters, it's all about vibes.

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The two deprivations driving support for Reform and Greens.

The Two Deprivations - by Chris Clarke - Parables

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Just a normal upstanding citizen …. 

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7 hours ago, steviewevie said:

 

apparently they're not going to bother much with this seat, helps Burnham.

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Bring back Blair

The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country

 

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More Tonty cause I know you love it

 

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[lost]

I know alot of people are not going to like it but he's right with alot of stuff:

 

People voted labour thinking they were getting a new-ish labour with less tax rises and instead they got older labour who have now killed growth are so ratings are in the toilet.

 

the triple lock is unsustainable and welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap.

 

sh*t growth is also linked to energy prices, and without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution.

 

defence spending is too low, if we had an offer of being able to defend europe then we could negotiate re-entry into the EU, currently any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us and the electrate will simply reject those terms.

 

The small boats thing looks like a huge failure of the state and is going to destory main stream parties unless they can come up with a solution.

 

 

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47 minutes ago, lost said:

I know alot of people are not going to like it but he's right with alot of stuff:

 

People voted labour thinking they were getting a new-ish labour with less tax rises and instead they got older labour who have now killed growth are so ratings are in the toilet.

 

the triple lock is unsustainable and welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap.

 

sh*t growth is also linked to energy prices, and without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution.

 

defence spending is too low, if we had an offer of being able to defend europe then we could negotiate re-entry into the EU, currently any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us and the electrate will simply reject those terms.

 

The small boats thing looks like a huge failure of the state and is going to destory main stream parties unless they can come up with a solution.

 

 

kind of all ignores the shocks to the economy that we keep getting, the high debt interest, the politics of  having a sh*t public realm that needs investiment everywhere and the fact that cutting welfare spending is very unpopular and that inflationary pressures coming from elsewhere keep f**king us....and basically that he really had a much easier inheritance than this government.

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I mean yes they probably should end the triple lock...but look at the amount of sh*t they got just by the idea of means testing winter fuel bills...I guess if you're going to do it, put it in a manifesto...and then watch as you lose the election.

 

And also...when he says stop the boats by any means....errr..so what then? leave ECHR? Blow them up?

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The way I see it is they should have reversed Hunt's NI cuts, and not made promises not to put up main taxes...not put up NI for businesses, and not gone so hard on bringing down immigration. I actually think they might need to look again at the min wages increase for younger people...and really push that apprenticeship thingy. Oh, and build some houses.

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He's maybe right though...Labour should be discussing direction and policies and stuff and not just picking a new leader because he's a nice northern bloke. But, not sure they have time for all that, their main problem at moment is no one likes Sir Keir.

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He also keeps banging on about AI.

 

1. The private sector will go through a process of adaptation to this new AI world and, therefore, business and entrepreneurs need to know government is on their side, removing obstacles to business growth – not creating them as they go through this massive process of adjustment. So, all those measures I described above which hold business back should be corrected or mitigated.

 

2. We need a transformative programme for planning reform and deregulation. The planning system in Britain is an abomination. The government has taken significant steps, but well short of a truly radical reform.

 

3. We must prioritise cheaper energy and electrification over net zero and use what is left of our North Sea oil and gas resources. This is essential for our competitiveness and for taking advantage of AI.

 

4. We should create a major new partnership with the private and voluntary sectors for apprenticeships and training – not just for the young and unemployed, but for the existing workforce whose jobs will be affected by AI and who need to learn AI adoption. Build on and not dilute the education reforms for schools started under New Labour and continued under the Conservatives. And keep our universities strong because they’re critical to the technology economy. This is the key to extending opportunity and wealth, even more than it was in 1997.

 

5. ‘Reindustrialising’ the north of the country can be encouraged by government giving incentives and help but most of all it will come through first-class infrastructure, education, freedom from bureaucracy, and government working in partnership with the private sector and with the forward-facing part of the trade-union movement. And with a broad definition of ‘industry’ if we want to create jobs because much of future manufacturing will likely be done by robots, though there will be also major opportunities in areas requiring a high degree of traditional skills.

 

6. A plan for fundamental reform, over time, of welfare. By the end of this decade, we could be spending more on incapacity and disability benefits than on defence. No serious country can do that. Mental-health spending has exploded over the past five or six years. The system at points incentivises people not to work. The triple lock is unaffordable long term. All of this is horribly hard, but the British people know, deep down, the necessity of doing it. If the Conservative Party repeats its offer of working together on welfare, Labour should accept the offer.

 

7. The NHS needs not NHS reform but whole-system health-care reform. Moving from cure to prevention. Mixing private and public provision in a fundamental realignment of the two. Reorganising the delivery of health care, for example making weight-loss drugs and other preventative products widely available. Getting rid of all the old shibboleths which have turned the NHS into a point of theological principle rather than a modern service where the transformative power of technology alters its foundations.

 

8. Take effective – i.e. ‘whatever it takes’ – action to solve the illegal immigration issue. The home secretary is right in believing that solving this issue is critical and has completely changed in nature since 2007. Solving it is pre-conditional to getting the British people to listen to bigger arguments about the future. We should deal by whatever means with small boats but recognise the necessity of targeted immigration in certain sectors for economic growth and be unashamed to advocate it.

 

9. Most important of all, reorganising the whole of government around the harnessing of the 21st-century technological revolution. All governments for the foreseeable future will govern in the age of AI. Those which understand it will see their countries prosper; those which don’t, won’t. This is literally the challenge across all sectors including welfare and health (digital ID is just one, though vital, part of it). It will define the future of the British economy which, ironically, has a powerful position in technology but one we’re in danger of squandering.

 

10. Our aim, for the long term, should be a Reimagined State in which taxes and spending can be lower, productivity higher and government seen as enabling not directing, with political consensus behind such a radical restructuring of the state.

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[xxialac]

Auto enrolment began 14 years ago so they should mess with the state pension ONLy once these people have reached retirement age and they can better make the case then.

 

Yes it costs a bomb but the alternative is mass poverty for many. It's already low enough as it is.

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9 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Auto enrolment began 14 years ago so they should mess with the state pension ONLy once these people have reached retirement age and they can better make the case then.

 

Yes it costs a bomb but the alternative is mass poverty for many. It's already low enough as it is.

 

I think those who only have a state pension get their income bumped upto £363.25 with pension credit (on top of winter fuel allowance and potentially housing and council tax benefits) so you could triple lock pension credit to protect the poorest and then single or double lock the state pension.

 

I can't see any chance of the triple lock still existing for all those who are not auto enrolled to work through unless the pension age has been raised to something like 75+

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