monkey wrote:Lol where was that?
Can we please stop repeating the lie that it's a "convention" for defecting MPs to trigger a by-election?
Since WW2, 69 MPs have switched from 1 party to another (not including party mergers, withdrawals of the whip, & sitting as an Independent).
Only 4 triggered by-elections.
Diluted Dante wrote:monkey wrote:Lol where was that?
Interview on Today. Huh
So these Tories are joining up with the independent group. Meaning the 8 former Labour MP's are happier to be in a group with people who routinely inflicted misery on people over the last 9 years than with a group who wants to stop it.
Soubry says she stands by the Tory austerity policy after 2010 and that it was the right thing to do for the country
This is his argument against rail nationalisation. John McDonnell wants to control your timetable, he is bad man. Ignore the fact that many (most?) European countries have nationalised networks. What a fucking clown.Leslie does not dispute that many of the left’s policies are popular with the public: rather he questions their desirability. Of the renationalisation of the privatised utilities, he remarks: “It speaks to the controlling instinct of the hard left because there is a sort of view that John McDonnell sitting in the Treasury can mandate how many tractors are sold, or what trains should leave Euston at what particular time of day, or what should be the price of a stamp. The problem with the Marxist ideology is that it assumes this omniscience on behalf of the central controller.”
Use of the revenue is public services. Higher taxes for the well-off are judged to have no significant impact on growth by that well-known Marxist organisation, the IMF. Where's he getting the idea that it has an economic impact? Has he got good reason to think this or is it just some recycled talking point bullshit?He is similarly sceptical of Labour policies such as a 50 per cent top income tax rate (“it depends on the use of that revenue and the economic impact”)
This is corporation tax as outlined in the manifesto he campaigned and was elected on. The funding issue is about settlement of old student loans from 1996 onwards.and the complete abolition of university tuition fees (“sounds great, the minor problem is: how do you pay for it?”)
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