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 sixteen concrete policy promises, listed below. 1) “Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners” [Worth noting Conservatives have themselves…

In Response — In December 2022 Owen Jones has 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…

Ten Progressive Tax Changes To Obviate The Need For Austerity 2.0 — 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 £12.50 Per Hour, U.K. Wide, Minimum Wage Floor, For All Adult Workers, Straight After The Next Election — Right now, following over 12 years of conservative government in Britain, inflation is over 10% and rising, energy costs are increasing so much the government have had to step in to hold down prices, food prices and 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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Reject Vote Shaming — There is a pervasive idea which haunts British democracy. The idea that if an individual chooses, in good faith, not to vote for a particular political party, that individual is somehow ‘enabling’ or ‘letting the worst party in’, and is therefore somehow an irresponsible, foolish, misguided, deluded or immoral person…

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…

An entrepreneurial young man named Rick falls into a conversation with his wealthy parents, in their house on Wight Manor Road, at the end of this conversation Rick decides to make a small amount of money selling tasty cakes, on a busy section on the street he lives, on one…

Demand More From The Labour Party — Rather than working to unify Labour party members, in its various opposing internal factions, as promised in his early 2020 leadership campaign, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the labour party, has made it clear he instead prefers to attack, undermine and alienate progressives & democratic socialists within his own…