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How about if Labour promised to go after the ingrained wealth in the country. Nationalise the assets of grosvenor estates, earl of Plymouth etc. All these scumbags who have billions and billions of land because 800 years ago their ancestors knew the Queen. Personally , my impression of the Labour Party is that if you work hard and earn good money they will tax the hell out of you. But they're no better at taxing the super rich than the tories are. At least the tories are upfront about their bootlicking subservience to the super rich 🤣.
A pitch of ' we're going after unfair wealth to help us all, but if you work hard we'll leave you alone' . It would certainly get my vote.
Then again, my ideal vision of politics would be about 6 months of bloodthirsty communism, kill the royals, aristocracy, the lot. Then 50 years of centre right government. I think I'm in a minority of 1 with this view!! 🤣
Who do you know has worked hard and who hasn't though? How do you account for people who've inherited money or had expensive public schooling and have done better because of that?
The probalem is with all of this it ignores that some people have an easier start to life and a headstart and others don't.
I don't actually think Labour wants to go after people who work hard they actually want to go after the very people you want them to go after. That's why the media are so against them, or any non tory party.
The tories actually go after the real hard workers, hence the squeezed middle and work classes while multi millionaires get away with everything.
The problems in our country start and end with inequality.
I've never ever met anyone who has ever made money through hard work but I've met plenty who have sitting on their fat arses and getting poor simpletons to do the graft.
I wonder how many Miners there have been over the years who sweated and toiled in miserable and gruelling conditions for hours on end who have ended up as millionaires, let alone billionaires? On the other hand I've known plenty whose health has been utterly ravaged for the sake of making others very wealthy.
Essentially I'm talking about going after the landowners the earls etc. These throwbacks to feudal Britain that still control billions of wealth. I personally think that would have huge public support. The fact that they still exist in a developed, modern country is utterly baffling.
You're entirely right about certain people having a headstart over others. But most of them are still tiny fry compared to the few ultra wealthy.
If we nationalised grosvenor estates and Crown estates we could probably pay off the national debt. We need a good grass roots campaign to go after the bastards
Labour are dead if they cant portray sensible middle of the road policies added to good fiscal policies, that are believable.
Thats what the public want and they need the general public on side to get re elected.
By all means have a left leaning once they get in , but keep it quiet on the road in .
Kier Stammer has to be believable as well . People have to have faith in him .
Labour party members alone will not get the labour government back in power.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a7731536.html
Labour's 2017 Manifesto was very popular - and Labour got 40% of the vote (Tories 43%).
Radical policies - especially around tax, investment and public ownership - do not deter most people.
In 2019 Labour crashed to 32% of the vote - with a similar Manifesto apart from an incoherent Brexit policy.
Radical policies added to a fence sitting, garbled mess of a Brexit policy - and a further 2 years of media and PLP vilification of the prospective alternative Prime Minister who didn't help himself - do deter most people.
It also helps to have a large and active membership - not one where one third have been driven out by the party leadership (purges, policy vacuums, incompetence and lies) and those that remain are demoralised and directionless.
The tories voted for it to a great extent because they believed Blair on weapons of mass destruction. I am sure I saw somewhere since that they wouldn't have done otherwise but I cannot back this up at the moment.
I accept of course that is is a case of "they would say that wouldn't they" but we will never know