However, the bumper survey findings – based on polling of about 10,000 voters – show that if whoever succeeds Keir Starmer adopts radical policy measures, including rent controls and higher taxes on wealth, they could engineer a dramatic turnaround against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in important battleground seats across the country.
But if so, why wouldn’t people just vote Green anyway?
Other than: “our latest shiney experimental statistical Toys say that…”
Moar and harder on the Pet Issjoos, while offering Bread and Circuses to the Hoi Polloi.
It’s all … Bland and quite unoriginal..
Wasn’t this the whole point of New Labour? its policies were popular especially with the lanyard classes but ultimately they have destroyed the country? Isn’t rent control simply the latest in a long line? And will this just not mean when there is a backlash it will simply mean, as it has to, that left wing people at a minimum lose the vote and ,if the pendulum swings back to the degree I hope actually are either killed off or at the very least subject to lengthy custodial sentences?
A renting crisis is upon us already, fuelled by landlords fleeing the market. Rent controls will simply make that flight worse.
This is a model and not an actual out on the street ‘excuse me madam’ survey.
Pretty sure that’s Dick Emery…
“Excuse me madam.”
“Miss.”
“Do you have an active social life ?”
“No I do not. Not like people in the flat upstairs. They have all sorts of wild parties and debauchery.”
“Haven’t you complained ?”
“Yes but they still won’t invite me… You’re a nice young man… We could have a wild party…”
They’re dumb enough to try it and there’s a lot of stupid people out there.
When the nation’s Peters were surveyed they were overwhelmingly in agreement that the nations Pauls should be taxed more to give them free stuff that they like.
Good. The more the UK gets Left wing policies good and hard, the more it might learn to vote for something else.
Makerfield disabused me of that idea.
Be fair Rowdy, Makerfield happened to get rid of Spanner.
Personally I am not convinced that Burnham will keep his seat at the next election.
Things haven’t got bad enough yet. The lights are still on, Sky TV works, people can afford to eat, drink and smoke (albeit probably counterfeit fags). The Left are going to have to crater the economy before the masses cotton on, so fingers crossed Burnham gets on with it.
…fingers crossed Burnham gets on with it.
If only. I fear he’ll keep things going just short of an IMF bailout.
That’s if, after the collapse, we still can vote for something else. We may be obliged to, ah, “surrender” instead.
There are degrees of collapse. IMO, the arrival of the IMF and a sharp cut in benefits and services would be sufficient…
The left, as always, will have their excuse.
Introduce socialist policies that will fail.
They fail.
They will blame capitalism.
It’s similar to what will happen when the shit really hits the fan because of mass immigration. Having ignored the warnings that importing millions from incompatible cultures will inevitably lead to conflict, when the conflicts start happening, they will blame the ‘far right’.
They will blame capitalism.
But how many will believe that with the IMF dictating terms?
Having ignored the warnings that importing millions from incompatible cultures will inevitably lead to conflict, when the conflicts start happening, they will blame the ‘far right’.
Again, how many will believe that? The conflicts have already started, and the excuse that the ‘far right’ are to blame just doesn’t cut through in Wetherspoon’s…
They don’t have to get people to believe it. They have to get people to believe that other people believe it. Which isn’t hard, with BBC repeating BS all day.
Rent controls produced Rachman. When honest landlords are not allowed to charge enough to cover the maintenance cost of their properties they have to sell some to pay the bills and unscrupulous persons buy those seeking to make unscrupulous profits.
Yep. It’s happening in NYC. Madmani got a rent freeze passed. The water is near the top of the dam. And rising.
Oh, it’s worse than that in NYC.
Yes. And in Seattle, too. Gamecock is giddy as a school girl.
The Big Tent Democrats have let the commie virus in. As TDS distilled Democrats down to a progressive remnant, commies got enough control to take over. I believe there are enough sane Americans left to vote them out, i.e., ALL the Democrats.
“My opponent is a communist” should be the only campaign message Republicans need. I look for the Leftard press to come out against the commies.
Daily, I look at youtube videos of the destruction of NYC and SEA. The schadenfreude is delightful. CHI is trying to get in on it.
Say you’ve done a survey, lie your bloody head off to say the result supports your prior position. Many such cases have been noted.
Might be I don’t understand the British political landscape, but perhaps the idea is that Labour can add some voters who would’ve gone Green to their base by co-opting some of their policies?
They’re all swerving about trying to be Schrödinger, trying to appeal to multiple, disparate, fissiparous electoral blocks which are naturally in opposition to each other, in order to cobble together a majority.
It’s in the Graun, therefore by definition it’s just wishful thinking.
Not always, sometimes it’s just lies
Nope… It’s the Graun… It’s *always* lies, fluffed up with Wishful Thinking, Projection and Righteous Indignation.
I don’t think we’re going to vote our way out of this shit.
So the dice are so heavily loaded in favour of Labour that it would get a stonking majority if it got one-third of the votes …
This should be files under “What is this Democracy thing then?”
Reminds me of anti-Trumper BS. These are things that ELEVATE Reform. Plus above: ‘Restoring the corporation tax surcharge on banking profits to its former level, or even a catch-all windfall profits tax on the sector.’
Commies still think these are good ideas. They live in a bubble, and it’s shrinking.
And Reform keeps growing.
There are plenty of people who believe this. Remember that the majority of Brits think the nation is as rich as Switzerland (Swiss GDP per capita is actually twice ours). Of course these people are not so dense as to believe that they themselves are as wealthy as the Swiss, they know they are struggling. They believe Britain is chockfull of ‘the rich’ who can be taxed to bits.
The UK GDP per capita is below Mississippi. BBC isn’t telling you you are sofa king dead.
Higher taxes on wealth? Start with the wealth manifested in Guardian pensions.