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Can almost guarantee that when Labour next in power, their millionaire leader suddenly won't be a problem they're a millionaire; whilst it seems to be a massive problem the new PM is one.
Possibly down to where that wealth came from? Half of KS's wealth appears to be how much his house has increased in value, with the rest from salary and book income. RS was an investment banker who made millions from the last financial crash and is married to a millionaire who uses non-dom status to avoid UK tax.
@ jezzer
Your talk of hypocrisy is naïve in the extreme.
Everywhere in the world, the ruling party talks up its achievements and downplays its failures.
Everywhere in the world, the opposition parties play up the failures of the government and downplay their own.
If you seriously believe that Labour are any more hypocritical than any other party, you need to do a lot more in depth study of politics, both here and abroad, over the last couple of centuries.
You should also be aware of 'tribalism' in all parties, where the most extreme supporters will not admit even the most blatant faults of those they devotedly follow. Such people exist on both sides of any political divide. Your continued insistence on only posting things you find that support the tories demonstrates a level of tribalism that makes you look hypocritical.
And your denial that you are a tory supporter looks ever less credible.
And the pension ping pong has bounced back again. Now it's 'might not' increase in line with inflation.
The tories seem intent on trashing the pensioner vote.
It must be utter hell for hard up pensioners, first being told that their pensions will rise with inflation, then that the might not, then that they will, then might not, then will, and now might not, again.
Even if they do eventually honour all the promises to keep the inflation link, pensioners are going to remember that, under the tories, they were consistently under threat of having their effective income seriously reduced.
Tribal tories will probably still vote tory, (or not vote at all), but the non tribals are more likely to vote for a party that the feel they can trust not to continually threaten to break promises and drive them (further) into poverty.
Notice we should be taxing Shell more again today after they make some profits, laughable pointless story.
I think the point of the story was that Shell took advantage of the loophole that RS put into the windfall tax to allow them to re-invest their excess profits back into their own oil producing abilities, as if in some way that helps the country rather than a big climate damaging corporation.
Simple, but effective !
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... and goes nicely with this excellent 5 minute summary ...
https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1585894753023000577?s=20&t=hqcWzu_b264E3UzeqsvnXA
It's really quite funny watching someone who claims he voted remain, desperately trying to find things that he feels support the disaster that is brexit.
Maybe down to BoJo's flag waving ?
When things became sticky in the UK, he popped over to the war zone!
I also don't think anyone here has said the Tories are universally awful and that Labour and the EU are beyond reproach. Just that the actions of the Tories has shown them to be very self serving at the expense of the country, and that still being in the EU would likely have helped limit the economic impact of the war in Ukraine. *NOTE* Not mitigate/ remove/ wipe-out, just make it less bad. Labour are making the right noises economically and I trust the current lot more than I do the Tories. And I am normally a Tory voter and am ashamed to say I also voted for Brexit. I'm also not ashamed to change my mind when I see that I made the wrong choice. It's called being an adult.
And again, nobody has said that the EU is beyond reproach. Just that we'd be better off in the trading bloc. And have you noticed that even the Tory newspapers that were baying for Brexit have changed their minds on this too? I do find it odd that you feel the need to try to defend the Tories and Brexit if you don't support either.
It's like in PMQ where all Truss could respond to Starmer was ask what he'd done to help families with energy bills. Like she'd forgotten that there was nothing he could do as he wasn't the one in power. He had suggested the windfall tax which was crap until the Tories adopted it badly as their own policy.
