Government Change

[JohnD]

I'm interested to see that some of Jeremy's policies are already moving towards enactment.

In their haste to run away from the recent Conservative manifesto, and placate the younger voters whom they have made into enemies, the remaining senior tories with their eye on Theresa's job are calling for an end to the public sector pay cap (Gove, Johnson, Hunt and Greening), and an end to Austerity.

"The Conservatives went into the election planning to maintain the cap until 2020, but there are growing Tory calls for a rethink after the party lost its majority in the general election."

Also

"The pressure to ease austerity has intensified since June's general election, with a number of backbench Tory MPs arguing that it cost the party votes and contributed to the loss of its majority.

At the same time

"On Saturday, thousands of people gathered in central London for a demonstration against austerity that was addressed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40477136

Meanwhile, caps on energy profiteering move closer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40476691

"Secretary of state, Damien Green, has recently hinted that he is astoundingly now favour of a national debate around cutting tuition fees – a proposal that would never have been suggested by a savagely neoliberal Conservative party had it not been for Jeremy Corbyn absolutely obliterating the Overton window during the General Election campaign."

 

[JohnD]

Thousands march on Parliament in anti-government protest

""There have been cuts to every single service you can think of. It's just the pure negligence. How can you be cutting vital services?"

The organisers said on Facebook that they "invite everyone - from campaigns and community groups across the country, from the trade unions, from political parties and any individual - to come together in one massive show of strength and solidarity".

The statement added: "We're marching against a government committed to austerity, cuts and privatisation.

"We're marching for a decent health service, education system, housing, jobs and living standards for all."

Downing Street did not want to comment on the protest. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40468881

The Cons are really, really frightened of Corbyn.

Look out for new anti-Corbyn slogans and campaigns in the red-top papers as the next election draws nearer.

 

[mwatsonxx]

The Cons are really, really frightened of Corbyn.

True, and so are many labour supporters. Do you really want this country run by a bunch of hate filled anarchists?

 

[bernardgreen]

"The pressure to ease austerity has intensified since June's general election, with a number of backbench Tory MPs arguing that it cost the party votes and contributed to the loss of its majority.

At the same time

"On Saturday, thousands of people gathered in central London for a demonstration against austerity that was addressed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn."

The policy is quite good. Labour promise to end austerity and as a result get elected. They spend £ millions sweetening up the electorate but do not have the money to fund this people friendly policy,

The result is that there will be a repeat of history

Another Rockefeller outfit bankrolling Fabian projects was the International Monetary Fund (IMF), established in 1944 along with the World Bank. . . . The IMF provided several loans to Labour (Fabian) governments:

• $250 million to the Attlee Government in 1947 (Martin, p. 77);
• $1 billion to the Wilson Government in 1969 (Martin, p. 109);
• $4 billion to the second Wilson Government in 1976 (Stone-Lee, 2005).

Another important loan of $4.34 billion was negotiated in 1946 by Fabian economist John Maynard Keynes and facilitated by his friend and collaborator Harry Dexter White who operated within the US Treasury as well as the IMF. All these loans were organised under successive Fabian Chancellors Hugh Dalton, Roy Jenkins and Denis Healey.

And which government was tasked to try and repay these loans......not the Labour government who just kept spending until the IMF said there was not going to be another loan.

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

True, and so are many labour supporters. Do you really want this country run by a bunch of hate filled anarchists?

What are you saying man?? You have just described JohnD..

 

[JohnD]

Do you really want this country run by a bunch of hate filled anarchists?

No expectation of that. Even here, the hate-filled RWRs number only a handful, though they are very vociferous.

FireIce (name changes frequently) is one of them.

 

[JohnD]

do not have the money to fund this people friendly policy

Theresa found a billion down the back of the sofa when her job depended on it.

If money's a problem, perhaps we should be less generous to billionaires and offshore companies who operate here but don't pay tax. The EU is moving in that direction, but in one of her lunatic schemes, Theresa threatened to make UK a tax haven to spite the 27.

How do you like living in a country where even the PM had a secret Panamanian fortune hidden away?

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

No expectation of that. Even here, the hate-filled RWRs number only a handful, though they are very vociferous.

FireIce (name changes frequently) is one of them.

This is my first username.... Could you present some evidence to support your baseless accusations?

 

[JohnD]

This is my first username....

 

[blightymam]

This is my first username.... Could you present some evidence to support your baseless accusations?

Cor, you don't half sound like himmy here, you sure you're not him again?!

 

[SirGalahad]

What is going to happen to all these Tory supporters when the Government starts to backtrack on their policies and implements policies from labour - what mental gymnastics will it be?

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

Cor, you don't half sound like himmy here, you sure you're not him again?!

Oh! You cheeky monkey..

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

What is going to happen to all these Tory supporters when the Government starts to backtrack on their policies and implements policies from labour - what mental gymnastics will it be?

Who said that we are all Tory supporters? There are plenty of labour voters who are mortified that their party has been infested by militant.

 

[SirGalahad]

Who said that we are all Tory supporters? There are plenty of labour voters who are mortified that their party has been infested by militant.

As long as politics trumps economics. It's a shame that extremes in either party have set the narrative leaving the central ground to shift.

 

[motorbiking]

So far... I'm enjoying a conservative government with a weaker majority. I quite liked the con-lib coalition for the same reason. A party with a secure majority tends to go a bit loopy.

On the subject of lower corporation tax. Ireland, Luxembourg, denmark and the netherlands have done very well establishing favourable tax policies to encourage investment.