A headline that portrays what Rachel Reeves is doing as distinct from austerity, rather than a continuation of it, is a demonstration of the Guardian's complicity.
There is so much anger directed towards Labour now [and I share it - I utterly detest Starmer and his neoliberal cohort] I genuinely fear that they are going to hand the next general election to Farage and his proto-fascist party on a plate. The Guardian will play a part in that. I've never forgiven them for the disgusting attacks on Corbyn and their lying about him being antisemitic, which was just pure bullshit.
Just what I thought when I read that article this morning. Who are they kidding? Themselves? Gullible readers? No one feeling the pinch can be in any doubt that austerity is back with a vengeance - if, indeed, it ever went away.
She wandered into Armley Helping Hands Centre today, where we have been told our exercise group will have to find another home as the council can't afford to repair the building. Why can't they? Rachel's cut their funds again. Did she explain this to us? Of course not. She said not a word about money or economics or cuts or austerity. She's one of our Leeds MPs, but we don't often see her. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, she was in charge of Armley's safety apparently according to the council when we asked why they let the illegal electric scooters race up and down Armley Town Street. They said it was up to her to see to it, and she hadn't........
The Labour MPs who know this government is doing austerity but won't speak up puts me in mind of the lyrics from the rock band Rush song Subdivisions "Conform or be cast out." My advice be on the right side of history and humanity and don't conform and let the control freaks cast you out.
Labour’s cuts are actually worse than the Tory austerity because they come on top of the Tory cuts. Austerity compounds itself. I doubt whether the Tories under Cameron would have gone this far.
I wonde why no Labour politicians have "crossed the floor" yet or whatever it's called? Is their taste of power, via a hypocritical and smarmy government, really so intoxicating that they can no longer see what's right or in line with supposed 'Labour' principles? Be nice if just one of them signalled some backbone or integrity.
I've just clocked Kevin Donnellon (below) and endorse his observation completely that the full blown capitulation of COUNTERFEIT LABOUR to a failed and austerity happy neo-liberal agenda paves the way for a US backed fascist victory under Farage. However, I also want to tackle Tom's relevant point on THE GUARDIAN which, on the one hand, remains the only non-corporate owned mainstream newspaper that isn't Tory, pro-Starmer (Daily Mirror) or worse and needs some support. Indeed, as in Scandinavia, ALL newspapers should be publicly owned and run by self governing trusts. However, that DOESN'T give the Guardian a free pass EITHER when it is entering into shabby deals with Tortoise Media, over the heads of Observer Journalists (cue Carole Cadwalladr) OR sanitising Rachel Reeves' Thatcherite economics as if there is no alternative. I groan when attendees e.g. at the Media Reform Coalition Conference, claim that The Guardian is every bit as bad as every other bourgeois paper (it isn't!) or that the colonisation of Britain's University Sector by dark financed Far Right think tanks like the SPIKED GROUP is of no consequence because we already have Chatham House and RUSI. What I'm talking about is of a completely different order. However, I have seen The Guardian, which I completely support, retreating from a number of key issues post Alan Russinger much as the BBC (which I ALSO defend from privatisiation and efforts to frame it as a toxic brand) has done since a weaponised OfCom started policing it.
On a different note I've now been banned from FACEBOOK as well as boycotting X and have now defected to Bluesky but my Sub-Stack Blog is still out there with a new blog tomorrow
Stopped reading guardian years ago the i I paper much better
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There is so much anger directed towards Labour now [and I share it - I utterly detest Starmer and his neoliberal cohort] I genuinely fear that they are going to hand the next general election to Farage and his proto-fascist party on a plate. The Guardian will play a part in that. I've never forgiven them for the disgusting attacks on Corbyn and their lying about him being antisemitic, which was just pure bullshit.
Spot on. I've been a Labour supporter for over 50 years and this is the worst Labour government I've seen.
Prime Ministers are mere puppets who receive their well rewarded instructions every Wednesday.
More persecution for Plebs.
More money for billionaires.
Is THE UNDENIABLE PATTERN.
We don't get a say in how we are governed. I doubt we ever have, and I doubt we ever will.
Just what I thought when I read that article this morning. Who are they kidding? Themselves? Gullible readers? No one feeling the pinch can be in any doubt that austerity is back with a vengeance - if, indeed, it ever went away.
I have read the Guardian for around 40 years I now despise it.
She wandered into Armley Helping Hands Centre today, where we have been told our exercise group will have to find another home as the council can't afford to repair the building. Why can't they? Rachel's cut their funds again. Did she explain this to us? Of course not. She said not a word about money or economics or cuts or austerity. She's one of our Leeds MPs, but we don't often see her. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, she was in charge of Armley's safety apparently according to the council when we asked why they let the illegal electric scooters race up and down Armley Town Street. They said it was up to her to see to it, and she hadn't........
The Labour MPs who know this government is doing austerity but won't speak up puts me in mind of the lyrics from the rock band Rush song Subdivisions "Conform or be cast out." My advice be on the right side of history and humanity and don't conform and let the control freaks cast you out.
Labour’s cuts are actually worse than the Tory austerity because they come on top of the Tory cuts. Austerity compounds itself. I doubt whether the Tories under Cameron would have gone this far.
And the BBC too 😢
I wonde why no Labour politicians have "crossed the floor" yet or whatever it's called? Is their taste of power, via a hypocritical and smarmy government, really so intoxicating that they can no longer see what's right or in line with supposed 'Labour' principles? Be nice if just one of them signalled some backbone or integrity.
I've just clocked Kevin Donnellon (below) and endorse his observation completely that the full blown capitulation of COUNTERFEIT LABOUR to a failed and austerity happy neo-liberal agenda paves the way for a US backed fascist victory under Farage. However, I also want to tackle Tom's relevant point on THE GUARDIAN which, on the one hand, remains the only non-corporate owned mainstream newspaper that isn't Tory, pro-Starmer (Daily Mirror) or worse and needs some support. Indeed, as in Scandinavia, ALL newspapers should be publicly owned and run by self governing trusts. However, that DOESN'T give the Guardian a free pass EITHER when it is entering into shabby deals with Tortoise Media, over the heads of Observer Journalists (cue Carole Cadwalladr) OR sanitising Rachel Reeves' Thatcherite economics as if there is no alternative. I groan when attendees e.g. at the Media Reform Coalition Conference, claim that The Guardian is every bit as bad as every other bourgeois paper (it isn't!) or that the colonisation of Britain's University Sector by dark financed Far Right think tanks like the SPIKED GROUP is of no consequence because we already have Chatham House and RUSI. What I'm talking about is of a completely different order. However, I have seen The Guardian, which I completely support, retreating from a number of key issues post Alan Russinger much as the BBC (which I ALSO defend from privatisiation and efforts to frame it as a toxic brand) has done since a weaponised OfCom started policing it.
On a different note I've now been banned from FACEBOOK as well as boycotting X and have now defected to Bluesky but my Sub-Stack Blog is still out there with a new blog tomorrow