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The most important line in that speech is the line about how inequality isn't just a moral failure, but also economic stupidity.
And yet he's proposing exactly the same bullshit austerity, along with "British Recovery Bonds", which no one is able to explain the purpose of.
Dismal.
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And yet he's proposing exactly the same bullshit austerity
I can see why you might want what he proposed to be bolder but I don't think anyone can in good faith characterise it as austerity:
A post-1945 style reevaluation of society en large, and calls for Government to have a bigger role in society
Proposals to create 100,000 small businesses across the UK in the next five years by boosting funding for start-up loans by £1bn - focusing outside of London and the South East.
Attacks the Conservative's for creating an "insecure and unequal economy" that has been "cruelly exposed by the virus", adding there could be "no return to business as usual" of "failed Conservative ideology".
Calls to extend the weekly £20 increase to universal credit benefits, introduced last year, beyond its scheduled end-date on 31 March
Extend the business rates holiday and VAT cut offered to firms in the leisure and hospitality sectors beyond April
Give local councils "the funding they need" to avoid having to use new powers to raise council tax by up to 5%.
ReekBlefs
The most important line in that speech is the line about how inequality isn't just a moral failure, but also economic stupidity.
We've been great at pointing out the moral failings involved in Tory policy. But that only convinces people who think emotionally, compassionately - people on our side, in short.
Framing it as economic stupidity - something which fiscally damages us, our potential as a country, the success of our children, the tax revenue of our treasury - is not only true, it's an expansion of the argument into new areas.
There's no point us making a moral case against the Tories. We've already convinced anyone we're going to on that one. We now need to make a broader case against them if we want to change minds and regain power, one which takes in the economy, patriotism, the social contract, family support, development, the lot. That was the starting point for it.