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Nov 25

#038 Again…Tax The Fat Cats

Hunt’s 2023 Autumn Statement Has Failed Working People — The current chancellor Jeremy Hunt MP has recently released his Autumn Statement 2023 to much fanfare. There were two headline policies announced that really stood out. He announced a 10% increase to the minimum wage (AKA the National Living Wage, not to be confused with the higher voluntary real living…

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#038 Again…Tax The Fat Cats
#038 Again…Tax The Fat Cats

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Jul 15

#037 Money For Nothin’

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…

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#037 Money For Nothin’?
#037 Money For Nothin’?

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Jun 2

#036 Starmer U-Turns on Electoral Reform

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…

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#036 Starmer U-Turns on Electoral Reform
#036 Starmer U-Turns on Electoral Reform

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Feb 23

#035 Starmer’s Rhetoric Meets Reality

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…

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#035 Starmer’s Rhetoric Meets Reality
#035 Starmer’s Rhetoric Meets Reality

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Dec 4, 2022

#034 Owen Jones, Labour Voter For Life

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…

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#034 Owen Jones, Labour Voter For Life
#034 Owen Jones, Labour Voter For Life

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Oct 31, 2022

#033 Tax The Fat Cats

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…

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#033 Tax The Fat Cats
#033 Tax The Fat Cats

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Aug 14, 2022

#032 Hell or High Wages

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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#032 Hell or High Wages
#032 Hell or High Wages

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Dec 27, 2021

#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning

and Starmer‘s Scant Alternative —

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#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning
#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning

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Apr 26, 2021

#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting

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…

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#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting
#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting

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Mar 14, 2021

#029 The Labour Party

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…

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#029 The Labour Party
#029 The Labour Party

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