I honestly think this lot will come into power in 5 years time, and they want to scrap the equality act, which protects Autistic and other disabled people from discrimination. This means, people will be allowed to treat the disabled anyway they like and employers won't have to accomdate adjustments.
This is dangerous, and I am quite worried if they get in 5 years time, disabled people will suffer.
I find the whoie class thing confusing and increasingly irrelevant, my parents were working class, ordinary people who owned their own home, for them getting a mortgage was a struggle, my mums wages didn't count and my dads boss had to write a letter saying that there was permanent overtime available. I have a skilled trade as a hairdresser, but also a degree and now I'm on disability benefits, what does that make me?
I didn't trust Corbyn, or more specifically I didn't trust John McDonal, he seemed to be the one promoting Corbyn as Magic Grandpa the most. Having been around in the 70's and 80's, there was no way I wanted a return to that sort of strife, nor did I want to be told where I could live, seeing as with their inheritance tax reforms I wouildn't have been left with enough money to afford anywhere of my own and I didn't want 'Jeremy to build me a house'.
I also didn't trust the power the unions had over Corbyn, to me many unions are stuck in the past, I wondered how long it would be before womens rights were rolled back and we were shoved back into the home and into caring roles, so as men could have the "dignity of work". I know unions have cahnged a lot over the last 30 years, but I still remember them as being hostile to women, happy to use us to rattle tins to support striking miners, but then to go back home.
I think Labour have a long and painful road ahead of them, rebuilding our country will take as much effort and expense as it did after WW2, so many schools and hospitals need rebuilding, so much infrastructure. I think people want good public services and many are willing to pay for them, but they also want the freedom to choose how to spend thier money.
I suspect that it is not the disability aspects of the Equality Act that are at issue, but rather issues around gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity. The Disability Discrimination Acts 1995,2010,2018 had their faults, but at least they were specific to disability. Now the " EDI agenda " has been overtaken by issues around race, sexual orientation and gender, and anybody who raises any equality issues is dismissed as "woke".
I'm not at all pleased with Labour's stance on welfare.
Labour as it exists now is just a more moderate version of the Tories and have been since the days of Tony Blair.
Why? Because the socialists represent a part of societ that is dwindeling slowly away to nothing as more and more move into the "middle classes" and share aspirations that are more capitalist than socialist.
I really don't think there will ever be a socialist party in power again as they are just no longer relevant to the vast majority of the electorate.
In the meantime Labour continue to wave the red flag of history to gain the few votes that are available from this and we slowly move into a phase of medium right to slightly more medium right parties who alternate holding power as they have done for all of this century.
I'm a pragmatic socialist. One that believes that the main task of a political party is winning elections and changing things for the better. On that score I'm not at all pleased with Labour's stance on welfare. I very strongly believe that socialists should be making the case for more socialism from within the Labour party, rather than throwing a lengthy political tantrum because Corbyn was dumped due to being totally incompetent.
The left that includes Corbyn has been about tactically dumb as you can get , with repeatedly demanding the voters embrace too much socialism within one election campaign. They should've played the long game and built up the case for socialism., gradually getting voters on side by well presented and articulated reasons as to the benefits of a more socialistic,left of centre, society.
I don't think we're going to agree on this as I am of the left and proud of it.
I thought Starmer was on the Corbyn Left? That's what he told the Labour membership to get elected. And yet we find out he was closer to Tony Blair all along.
Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister since Liz Truss. I bet she still has fans who blame everyone else for her problems too.
It's the BBC! It's the Media! etc
You're better off getting attached to polices rather than politicians in my view.
It dosen't matter who you vote for the government always get in!
There are those on those on the Corbyn left who deliberately chose to behave in a way that would see them kicked out of the party. They then used that thoroughly dishonestly to say that Starmer was hell bent on kicking socialists out of Labour. That he was destroying party unity.
Harold Wilson said that the Labour Party needs two wings to fly. But today's Labour is ridden with factions hell bent on destroying each other. Starmer has done everything possible to alienate some in Labour ,so it would be naive for him to turn around and ask for their support. So at the moment he is attempting to fly the party with only one wing.
I'm more than a little frustrated and disillusioned . On one hand you had the tactically inept pro Corbyn left who put ideology above doing what's needed to win an election . Labour as a perpetual protest party. Now we have a Starmer led Labour trying to out Tory the Tories on welfare. Both in their different ways weren't/aren't getting it right. I want a radical but sensibly pragmatic Labour government. I sure as sure can be don't want one that sees being hard hearted towards the disabled and/or vulnerable as a political virtue.
I just don’t trust the Lib Dems or any other political party at this point, as there is no political nor democratic solution - my only faith is in real patriots in the milltary and police who will step forward to launch a milltary coup, install a provisional Millitary government, declare a national state of emergency and impose martial law, as this will be the only direction of travel in the next few years, if we are to have any hope of saving our civilisation for future generations, as the only solution is a milltary dictatorship
Trump is definitively a traitor to the American people because he was always a globalist puppet - when he got into power in 2016 after a very bitterly fought election campaign, despite his clearly identifying the “bad actors” he never took any action against those whom he identified as such, while also fooling everyone, as soon as he was in power in the (back then) the most powerful office on earth - now under Biden/Harris the current US regime is the laughing stock of the entire world and a “paper tiger” hiding behind the UN, WEF, etc and is no match for the CCP China and other nations like North Korea and Iran, Israel, etc - Putin of Russia is equally untrustworthy, having done much the same things as Trump
One thing is for certain, America is deeply divided on many lines and on many fronts and this is a deeply dangerous situation for the entire world, as many other nations hostile to the US will form alliances to finally finish off a divided America, including by attacking America from within - clearly, all of these divisions within America are by design and have been carefully fostered for well over a century - it is deeply and undeniably sad to see the destruction of a once great nation that once championed the cause of democracy and freedom around the world, yet evidence of Freemasonry at the highest levels has emerged in the past year or so, despite the attempts at online censorship of historians, where this has been traced back to George Washington and the founding fathers, where further evidence of Masonic links has been discovered in the White House and all over Washington DC going right back to 1776
The Lib Dems are cynical opportunists. I was stupidly naive enough to vote for them in 2001, as they were portraying themselves as being to the left of New Labour. Then when Labour's political fortunes declined and centre right 'orange book' liberal Nick Clegg became leader they dropped the 'left of New Labour' approach . They'll change tack not out of conviction, but based on which direction the political winds are blowing.
one they will not get in two if they do they will not do this just like the Tories have constantly threatened to tear up the H.R.A and leave the court they never have done try not to worry he is just playing to a populist crowd and in my view is not a serious politician.
In fact the Equality Act does need amending I have used this when getting bother and forms not abiding and they ignore
Trump has been proven as a hypocrite and a liar that has utterly decieved and betrayed the American people - I used to support him but too much truth has emerged these past 4 years alone to know that there is no longer any political solution, our legal system and our courts in every country globally are infiltrated and corrupt, as is the very concept of the democratic process and of democracy itself - honestly, on balance, we would be far better off under a milltary dictatorship and a provisional milltary government for at least the next 20 years from now, even if the Millitary is corrupted by the same forces, as we will never see true freedom, peace and security in our lifetimes, plus we are also facing a nuke war in 2025, which is assured and is a certainty
Already the jobs market is an employers market and yet, the way that Starmer and Liz Kendal via the DWP are going after sick and disabled people shows that Labour are just as untrustworthy as the Tories and Reform - Labour would almost certainly scrap the equality act if it suited them as they don’t care about sick and disabled people, having already betrayed and decieved working class people for decades
I think the Lib Dems would be the least worse in my books.
That was Tony Blair trying to follow in the footsteps of Thatcher. He took the party away from its roots, and made them tory red
I hope so too, France is so tied to it's cultural traditions and it's idea of Frenchness that it seems ungovernable and it pushes people to polar opposites. Things that we take for granted as being availalbe here are not there, like it's illegal to have DNA tests for anything other than disputed paternity or medical reasons, theres no tests for ancestry reasons, because it's seen as seperatist and anti-French cohesiveness.
I think the Dutch and the Germans have problems with the whole EU project, so do many French for that matter, I think they resent the amount of money that the wealthier northern countries send to the poorer southern countries. Maybe their governments weren't as cynical as ours were? Our's only seemed to und stuff in thier own heartlands and left much of the North, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland to be funded by the EU from development funds. I remember not so long ago when it seemed like every new road, or infrastructure, or redevelopment project outside of the M25 seemed to be funded by the EU. Thats probably why infrastructure and redevelopment are in such a critical state now, because they've not been funded by our governments for so long.
