Ha, I have kind of alluded to this in the last paragraph above. I remember a paper did a piece detailing all the big-ticket items in Corbyn's manifesto then showed examples of where these are routine in other countries regardless of the government.
I'm merely saying that the majority of people who support left leaning governments do not mean they they want 'communist regimes'. They simpy want a modern, caring and fairer society as I mentioned above. This is provided by a number of northern european countries which use various versions of...
You seem to be conflating two things. You refer to young people “leaning more to the left” and then suggest they do this as they have no experience of “communist regimes” which suggests this is what they want.
I consider myself on the left but this doesn’t mean I want to be ruled by a British...
Why do refer to left governments are “brutalist socialist/communist regimes”? Northern Europe has numerous examples and none are like how you perceive them.
I don’t doubt some individuals and/or businesses alter their behaviour based on tax but equally others will not, staff are incentivised by many things and business decisions also have a variety of inputs other than tax levels.
Whilst the very basic premise of Laffer holds it is theory, it can...
Tax levels are at around 35 % of GDP which isn’t wildly different to a number of historical “local” peaks going back to the 60s/70s. More interestingly there’s currently 15 countries in Europe with higher tax and most have desirable living standards ….there’s certainly scope for further rises.
“complete reform of the asylum system, immediate commencement of exploratory talks to rejoin the single market, abolishment of private schools, abolishment of faith schools, the banning of foreign ownership of UK print media, immediate striking from the books of the new laws on protesting."...
I can’t read the FT as it’s behind a firewall. But the other one is scraping the barrel a bit.
I don’t doubt that things which were pledges when he won the leadership might be further down the list of priorities 4 years later. After all the unprecedented and in some cases totally unforeseen...