It comes after critics warned the plans could prompt wealthy people to leave the UK.
  • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Amazing really. We’ve followed the US step for step, politically. You can have Far Right, Right or Centre Right.

    Working people won’t get a sniff for a decade at least

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 days ago

      Working people won’t get a sniff for a decade at least

      yeah, which party is going to come to power to give people a sniff of the good life? Labour? Oh whoops, they’re already in charge.

      JFC, it says something about the state of this fucking country and its history when the party that evolved out of the one that told the Irish “the free market will fix the famine” is the one you need to bank on to get a fair deal for working class people.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Whig_government

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)

      And I voted for them several times.

      EDIT : This is why I left britain.

      • mannycalaveraOP
        21·
        9 days ago

        JFC, it says something about the state of this fucking country and its history when the party that evolved out of the one that told the Irish “the free market will fix the famine”

        This is such an asinine comment 🤣. The Irish famine was almost 200 years ago. It says nothing about anything that is happening right now. It’s like saying the Boer War plays a major part in what happens in this country.

        And you know to be fair the free market did sort of bring prosperity to Ireland, albeit some centuries later. They joined the EU, liberalised their attitudes towards women and work, and instituted a global tax avoidance scheme for US companies never before seen.