[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?

[Weststander]

Do you think anything would happen if Farage won and did that? Riots, protests etc? I can’t imagine much of the UK being up for siding with Russia etc. even if many of them are idiotic enough to vote for Reform. That said, we aren’t known for our protesting. Too British, maybe we’ll need to channel our inner French person.

Tactical voting on steroids should keep them a million miles away from 10 Downing Street. It doesn’t always work that way at GE’s eg NSC’ers kept telling us that a mythical progressive alliance was going to depose Tories in Lewes, Hastings, both Worthing seats. GE’s came and went, until 2024, it didn’t happen.

The other parties will have to be very switched on in communicating the financial baloney of the Reform figures. Another chestnut is that they’ll lower corporation tax to 15% (I’ll gain), it’s not needed other than by tax dodging US multinationals and it’s uncosted.

 

[TomandJerry]

More to come?

"South Western Railway (SWR) has been renationalised, making it the first train company to transfer to public ownership under Labour."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqg73znzzeo

 

[TomandJerry]

More good news!

"Canada’s second-largest pension fund plans to invest more than £8bn in the UK over the next five years, in a boost to chancellor Rachel Reeves as she seeks external investment to fund big infrastructure projects."

Quoted from the FT

 

[Chicken Run]

More to come?

"South Western Railway (SWR) has been renationalised, making it the first train company to transfer to public ownership under Labour."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqg73znzzeo

Only need to renationalise 5 more and they would have matched the previous government

 

[cunning fergus]

If I came to power tomorrow the first thing I'd be doing is forcing this cap down to a much more reasonable level. Like £500 or something.

If the energy companies don't like it then they just get nationalised.

Surely the first thing you would do is to reverse the UK’s current energy policy for industry which is killing it at a rate of knots. Domestic users need jobs to pay bills.

https://share.google/BzlOmIvYykLyA2QmZ
This will mean at the very least resetting the net zero objectives and associated taxes and levies, unless of course straightforward de-industrialisation is a key component of the policy that we just haven’t been told yet?

https://share.google/lm57F4vPeJbXMzM97

I know Starmer has a lot on his plate at the moment, not least with this strange episode of upsetting the Ukrainian ex-pat male model and acting community, however if this country is to re-arm and retain a strategic industrial capacity to face the developing Russian threat, as he often says it does, then he needs to sort out this buggers muddle of an energy policy first.

 

[rogersix]

Surely the first thing you would do is to reverse the UK’s current energy policy for industry which is killing it at a rate of knots. Domestic users need jobs to pay bills.

https://share.google/BzlOmIvYykLyA2QmZ
This will mean at the very least resetting the net zero objectives and associated taxes and levies, unless of course straightforward de-industrialisation is a key component of the policy that we just haven’t been told yet?

https://share.google/lm57F4vPeJbXMzM97

I know Starmer has a lot on his plate at the moment, not least with this strange episode of upsetting the Ukrainian ex-pat male model and acting community, however if this country is to re-arm and retain a strategic industrial capacity to face the developing Russian threat, as he often says it does, then he needs to sort out this buggers muddle of an energy policy first.

It's all in hand, don't panic!

 

[cunning fergus]

It's all in hand, don't panic!

No doubt, I suspect we will fall back on the tried and tested policy of Lord Ali underwriting a new Christian Dior wardrobe for the missus just in case she says she’s talking in her sleep again.

Angela though……….what’s it going to take for her not to start singing like a canary……….