Neither the party of government nor the party ahead in the polls has any remaining economic policy. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ought no longer to be in office, while the rising candidate for First Lord of the Treasury also has serious questions to answer, again about housing. Any Government would have had to have done what was about to happen, but that is not the point. They all sought the job by pretending otherwise, so the lot who won have only themselves to blame.
Yet the money can still be found for the Chagos deal. Speculation swirls around the Government's withdrawal of this evening's committal motion in the House of Lords, but no one is suggesting that it had finally baulked at the cost. Nor that it had suddenly been converted to Chagossian self-determination, any more than the other side had.
In the midst of all of this, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is as silent as he is on the case of Thomas Waller. If you need to look him up, then do. Note, as much as anything else, that he is not on remand. Where were or are the protestors? But if Yaxley-Lennon was not guilty of terrorism, and that in the view of a salaried State employee sitting alone, then how could the Palestine Action defendants possibly be so?
And where would that leave the Labour Party in relation to Councillor Georgia Pickering, of the Binfield and Jennett's Park Ward of Bracknell Forest Council? In her day job as the Managing Director of CMS Strategic, and acting on behalf of Elbit Systems, that Chair of Overview and Scrutiny planted in The Times the false story that Palestine Action was being funded by Iran. Days later, Parliament voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
Any Government would have had to have done what was about to happen, but that is not the point.
ReplyDeleteNo, of course it wouldn't. They could have cut spending instead, which is what a conservative government would do.
They chose not to cut welfare and to give inflation-busting pay rises to their public sector workforce, and to keep putting illegal migrants up in hotels instead. That's a choice-they didn't "have to" do any of it.
I am not sure whether or not I would prefer to live in your world. Perhaps if I had never been to the real one. But I have.
DeleteOnly in your world-and that of the Labour Party-do they think tax rises are the only way to plug gaps in public finances instead of spending cuts. That is why we are in yje economic state we’re in, as even poor old Tony Blair can now see.
ReplyDeleteReform UK has pledged a slew of spending cuts first to fund tax cuts next whereas Labour has done the opposite.
That one has already been tried. It did not end well. Or slowly.
DeleteTory governments put up taxes and Labour governments cut benefits, anyone who doesn't know that must be very young.
DeleteThey both do both, but of course you are right.
DeleteYou probably don’t realise how hilarious it is that you seriously think there’s no alternative to Labour’s mad manifesto-breaching tax rises, (which even Tony Blair says would be insane when our economy is already suffering from low productivity). Some leftwing types genuinely don’t read anything they disagree with and therefore have no idea an alternative position even exists. You’ve probably never heard of the notion of spending cuts, which polls show voters would prefer.
ReplyDeleteBut you should try reading.
I did not say that there was no alternative. I said that none of them would take it.
DeleteThe party leading the national polls has pledged massive spending cuts.
ReplyDeleteThat's nice.
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