“Eee bah gum, pet. Labour have condemned us to freeze to death this winter, but at least that Sir Keir Starmer is working with the neofascists to keep the foreigners out,” said no one in the Red Wall.
Giorgia Meloni: Starmer showed great interest in our Albania migration deal
Presumably, “black hole, we’re doomed!” has been focus-grouped. Who are this bloc of centrist masochists? Why don’t they have a cutesy media monicker?
Over the summer there’s been a change in East London mores: people no longer press the button on the pelican crossings, and leave their baskets for staff to collect on the self-checkouts.
The government planned to gut the NHS and flog the entrails of to private equity. The “black hole” is a smokescreen.
Rachel Reeves is positioning herself as the centrist dad’s Liz Truss.
The Chancellor, of all people, “secures” an £8b AWS datacentre that will “support around 14,000 jobs per year” - the most sustainable of which being the delivery riders bringing the lattes to the journalists at the photo-ops and the spads holding the politico’s umbrella.
A ‘tough’ government would be taking power and money from the rich, not mugging pensioners for their winter fuel money or taxing poor families for having kids.
If Britain is broken, why does government fiddle with the dials? If the machine is kaput you fix the machine. You don’t play with the settings.
In the polities of neoliberal meritocracy, elected politicians consider ordinary folk non-player characters. If you try to engage with politicians you soon realise the reverse is true. The politicians speak in robotic slogans scripted by shadowy players working for the oligarchy to rig the game.
My question for the Labour Treasury team is, if the bond markets are running the country, why are we paying you to do it, particularly when you claim money is tight?
