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Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey calls for Elon Musk to be 'held to account' over comments on Britain
11:40 UTC
We either need a new leftwing party, or we need to start criticising Labour from that perspective and pull them leftward
Currently, realistically the country has three viable options for government: Labour, the Tories, and now reform (although there's debate about whether FPTP will punish them).
We've just came out of a disasterous decade and a half reign from the conservatives, who by and large have cut public services in real terms, mismanaged the economy (Brexit and truss, CoL crisis), and have overseen the continued transfer of real wealth from the middle and working classes to the wealthiest.
Labour have done, as it stands, very little to reverse that, and are essentially handcuffing themselves via maintaining the fiscal rules set out by the Tories. And because of these fiscal rules, and because of their seeming unwillingness to tax the rich, as in the ultra ultra ultra wealthy, you end up with policies like the NI hike to raise revenue, which disproportionately affects SMEs, where larger organisations could afford it.
Reform's answer to this, is to simply reduce immigration. However, without immigration, as it stands with how our country is, you don't get hardly any growth. The Tories, and trump in the US have ran constantly on anti immigration rhetoric, but when they actually got into power, they did zilch about it, because they, in actuality, have no interest in lowering immigration. These are rich people, and more immigrants means more cheap labour, which directly or indirectly, benefits the richest.
The reason why you can't afford heating or food or housing or lecky, isn't because of Abdul or Dimitry who came here to find work and better conditions than where they came from...
...it's because there has been a consistent transfer of wealth and resources from the masses to the ultra rich. And the only way we're going to reverse that is to take those things away from the rich and give that wealth back to ordinary people.
This doesn't mean just taxing the rich. That's something we definitely need to do, and importantly we need to tax assets/capital rather than bumping up rates for high earning workers. Think of things like land, property, equity, etc.
What we need to do is build grassroots wealth, with strong roots that stay planted in ordinary working communities l, and are resistant to capture by wealthy agents, be that individuals or corporations.
Currently, there doesn't seem to be a party that has that focus, or even has that on their radar. But, we need one, or we need to convince Labour to tax the rich, get our public services back online and back in public hands, and build wealth that comes from and stays with the working classes, else the richest are going to simply continue outcompeting everyone for their resources.
12:18 UTC
34 years and counting to build a reservoir. Good luck with growth - The chancellor’s commitment to building is admirable. But whether it’s in Abingdon, Cambridge or Heathrow, the nimbys — and their lawyers — will be waiting
12:59 UTC
Ethnicity Crime Rates. Any good sources?
Does anyone have any good up to date sources showing the statistics on ethnicity and sexual assault crime rates in each ethnicity group?
Or anything similar, i asked this because i just keep finding sources saying "78% are white and so on" but theres nothing stating the crime rates overall out of each individual group.
If anyone has any sources pls send them 🙏
12:14 UTC
Heathrow expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife | Andrew Rawnsley
11:49 UTC
Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 02/02/25
👋 Welcome to the r/ukpolitics weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction megathread.
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Commentary about stories which already exist on the subreddit should be directed to the appropriate thread.
This thread rolls over at 6am UK time on a Sunday morning.
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06:01 UTC
Settled, industrious, essential: it’s time we saw immigration as a British success story | Martha Gill
01:40 UTC