They’ve totally lost it. Going full Gordon Gecko now.
Keeping the 2 child benefit cap, now adopting the Truss policy lifting bankers’ bonuses.
We need investment in the real economy, like the thousands of permanent jobs my team and I have created in the North East.…
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Tories - now available in any shade of blue or red. It’s time for the Conservative and Labour parties to stop their ‘Divide and Conquer’ mandate, and join together as soul-mates that they are, leaving the real Labour Party to reform under ‘Sensible Socialism’ and not undercover…
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Keeping the 2 child benefit cap is a good idea. We shouldn't fund people's choices to have large families with tax dollars.
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Just when I think I can't be more disappointed with the current Labour party, they find new ways to disappoint me further.
They'll never out-right the right, because those on the right will vote for a further right party. Meanwhile, on the left, they're losing votes.
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They are probably going to be elected just because they aren't conservatives. I hope tactical voting comes into play and people vote whoever can unseat the Tory in all the constituencies. I then fear we will have more unrest fighting blue Labour. Missed opportunity.
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cutting capital requirements so the banks can go overleveraged and come back looking for hundred billion bailouts again...
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They’re just another Tory party. We have a one party state. Labour have been hijacked by extremists and it’s bad news for the Many.
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Jamie, you are tory enabler in chief. Just stick together and get rid of this corrupt government
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Once they got in those pockets, they were never coming back out. 🤷 Grifters, waiting for a turn at the trough. That's all they are now.
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You are the one who has lost it. The so called "progressive" man is stuck in the dark ages
A] the Cap didn't work because the salaries were adjusted to compensate for the cap
B] there's a reason for it ⬇️
@BBCPolitics
CONTEXT
About keeping those in financial sector in UK
London faces growing threats from rival financial hubs incl NYork, Paris, Frankfurt & Amsterdam, particularly post-Brexit. London’s stock market sees an exodus of companies
These services = 12% of economy & a huge tax gen
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#RachelReeves
clearly doesn't want to be in Government. The whole point of the
#Labour
party is to represent workers No one wants Tory-Light. As they are so out of touch with what they are for: Cross the floor or leave Politics
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When presented with the option: which colour rosette do your want your Tory to wear - Red or Blue? This former lifelong Labour voter says they can both do one. Im Voting Jamie D for Independent North East Mayor
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How will reinstalling the cap bonus help ordinary people? There is a lot more nuance to this. Firstly better parliamentary time spent on ordinary people then on bankers.
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I see the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund just posted record profits of 213 billion Nkr or £16billion. Imagine if we had invested our own N.Sea Oil receipts in a Sovereign Wealth Fund? Instead Maggie used to keep the miners on the dole & subside privatisations.
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