If you're going to pledge to do a task as impossible as swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, strapping lead weights to every limb probably isn't a great idea.
I expected much better from Labour. This focus on “growth at any cost” is, at best, foolish and at worst, catastrophic for the mere mortals like us. The emphasis on trickle down economics is laughable - everyone knows wealth will always trickle upwards if it is given the chance. As you say, if the money was distributed more evenly, the economy would grow, because, of course, we would spend it on luxuries like say food, clothes, heating etc. So for Reeves “growth at any cost” would be for her to ignore the RW press, lobbyists and donors and do something radical. But maybe that’s too high a cost for her and Starmer?
I’m beginning to think that Labour’s incompetence is deliberate and they want to become unelectable come the next election, probably so they can disappear into the private sector and make shedloads of money in an imploding economy. Unfortunately this means a lurch to the far right, probably in the shape of Reform
An alternative to neoliberalism is needed, but Reeves blithers on about growth the same as Truss did.
I expected much better from Labour. This focus on “growth at any cost” is, at best, foolish and at worst, catastrophic for the mere mortals like us. The emphasis on trickle down economics is laughable - everyone knows wealth will always trickle upwards if it is given the chance. As you say, if the money was distributed more evenly, the economy would grow, because, of course, we would spend it on luxuries like say food, clothes, heating etc. So for Reeves “growth at any cost” would be for her to ignore the RW press, lobbyists and donors and do something radical. But maybe that’s too high a cost for her and Starmer?
It's good to see Reeves and Starmer sinking but, as you say, they are going to drown the most vulnerable in society as they go to the bottom.
That wretched woman couldn't balance the books if she stuck them together with cement.
very smart
I’m beginning to think that Labour’s incompetence is deliberate and they want to become unelectable come the next election, probably so they can disappear into the private sector and make shedloads of money in an imploding economy. Unfortunately this means a lurch to the far right, probably in the shape of Reform