Howard Reed’s Basic Income - Designed To Make Working People Poorer — In 2019, 2022, and again in 2023, progressive economist & academic Howard Reed, and his colleagues, both at the campaigning group Compass, and at the think tank Autonomy, produced reports that modelled, analysed and championed what they saw as an affordable, bold & realistic progressive policy to fundamentally address poverty…

For Reasons Unknown — In September 2022, Labour party conference voted in favour of adopting electoral reform, in the form of a proportional electoral system for the house of commons at general elections. https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/labour-party-conference-backs-proportional-representation/ Keir Starmer is on record as saying, “I also think on electoral reform we’ve got to address the fact that…

How Will Keir Starmer’s Leadership Pledges Compare to Labour’s 2024 Manifesto? — In early 2020 Keir Starmer made ten leadership pledges, which formed the basis of his ultimately successful Labour Party leadership campaign. These ten pledges can be boiled down to roughly seventeen concrete policy promises, listed below. 1) “Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners” [Worth also noting Conservatives…

In Response — In December 2022 Owen Jones made a video on why he chooses to vote Labour (even if the Labour Party hate him and everything he stands for), In this video he explores the two main threads of criticism he often gets in response to his…

Ten Progressive Tax Changes That Could Finance Real Progressive Change — On the 17th November 2022 Jeremy Hunt MP, the latest conservative chancellor of the exchequer, will release a package of spending cuts & tax rises, which, in all likelihood, will fail to address the ongoing cost of living crisis in Britain and lead to a whole new round of damaging…

It’s Time To Legislate For A £15 Per Hour, U.K. Wide, Minimum Wage Floor, For All Adult Workers, At The Next Election — Right now, in Britain, following many years of conservative government, inflation is high, energy costs are increasing so much the government had to step in to temporarily hold down prices, food prices are surging and rents are rising at record rates. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-cpi-inflation-rate-rises-101-july-2022-08-17/

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Principled Voting Is Never Shameful — A spectre is haunting British democracy - the spectre of (tactical) voter shaming. Voter shaming is the pervasive idea that if an individual chooses, in good faith, not to vote for a pre-prescribed political party, that individual is somehow ‘enabling’ or ‘letting in’ the worst party, and is therefore an…

Democratic or Autocratic? — The Labour Party calls itself a democratic (socialist), people powered organisation, but in reality it is from from a socialist or a democratic political party. Here are eight examples that support this, In the summer of 2016 Hilary Benn MP, then a shadow cabinet member, contacted multiple members of the…