tillimarleen@feddit.de to United KingdomEnglish · 11 months agoKeir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’www.theguardian.comtillimarleen@feddit.de to United KingdomEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
There‘s no end to austerity with Starmer. He rather keeps cutting public spending than taxing the rich.
minus-squareEnemyBattleCrab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoDidn’t Gordon Brown build a surplus, only to be called out as a scrooge by the tabloid? Feels like you just cant win.
minus-squareHumanPenguinlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months ago by the tabloid? Well no. You can’t expect tabloids to play fair. There’s no profit in that.
minus-squaremannycalaveralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoOnly once if I recall in 2001. Then he sold off $3 billion worth of gold that would have been worth $11 billion 🤷
Didn’t Gordon Brown build a surplus, only to be called out as a scrooge by the tabloid? Feels like you just cant win.
Well no. You can’t expect tabloids to play fair. There’s no profit in that.
Only once if I recall in 2001. Then he sold off $3 billion worth of gold that would have been worth $11 billion 🤷