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Priorities. I don't like Keir Starmer's much, since his military aid to Ukraine is affordable but taking kids out of poverty still isn't.
Right, so a lot of people ahead of the General Election, whilst surmising what a Keir Starmer led Labour government might look like, and especially with the Tony Blair comparisons being bandied about for as long as they had been, encouraged no doubt by Blairite phantom turned Jeffrey Epstein’s shopping buddy Peter Mandelson haunting proceedings from the shadows. Invariably that comparison turned to one of warfare. Blair will be forever defined by the Iraq War, so perhaps it’s a sign of things to come, that it is a particularly telling course of action that despite being told repeatedly that there is no money left for Labour to put the country back together after 14 years of the Tories, that he earned that nickname Sir Kid Starver for refusing to do away with the two child benefit cap and keep kids in poverty, Starmer has still managed to find the money to put together a military aid package for Ukraine within days of taking power. He can find money for war, but not the poorest children, or frankly anything else you care to think of, that there is apparently no money left for.
Right, so that was Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, talking about not being left a note by the Tories saying there is no money left, by quipping perhaps they couldn’t afford the note paper, discussing Rachel Reeves big speech today to lay out Labour’s plans to achieve growth, despite not investing any money in anything it seems, yet still she has announced plans to build 1.5m houses this parliament, but what type of housing will matter and where it is, the return of mandatory local housebuilding targets, which is great if she’s put the money in for local councils to deliver on it, relaxing planning restrictions on what she considers ugly parts of the green belt, is not what I want to hear, an end to de facto building of onshore wind farms, I have no issue with that, but again how is it being financed? A new planning policy framework to come, will judge that on it’s merits when it appears. How is all this being paid for is still the outstanding question really, it’s also not anything that hasn’t been mentioned previously.
The question of how Labour is going to pay for stuff looms large, especially in light of the fact they keep saying they aren’t going to spend big because there is no money left. If they weren’t refusing to tax the rich, they would be free to print more money, the adage of bankrupting the nation and there being no money left is a false one, when the Bank of England simply has to type numbers into a computer and voila, new money is born. Taxation is a brake on inflation that allows governments to do that, so claims of not being able to afford this, that or the other is also false, and Labour singing from the same hymn sheet as the Tories on that, doesn’t show a dramatic shift from their way of ruining the country, to Labour doing little different or little better. The primary example of that, the policy area that did come up often in the General Election campaign, was the two child benefit cap policy.
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