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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%.
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“Yes but apart from that, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?”
Not a member of a political party but thought today was impressive, credible and well thought out. I’m assuming this is the launch of the vision ahead of the summer elections and that it’s the start of campaigning up to GE which is still years away.
Will see what the reaction is over next few days but as a non-Labour party member it did make me take interest and that there was the start of a credible vision/agenda. Liked that it was built on hope with detail rather than platitudes and sound bites (or at least that’s what I’ve taken from it at a surface level).
dsalmon
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.