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@ChrisMayLA6 This is all about patience. The Right realised decades ago that the Overton Window can only be moved slowly; they have spent 50 years dragging it slowly right. The Left is always impatient, and naively imagines that somehow every election will magically result in a giant leap to a socialist utopia. Starmer is regarded not as the first step in a long grinding journey leftwards, but as ‘Tory lite’, a betrayal of everything. A few like Mick Lynch understand this, but he is unusual.

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@ChrisMayLA6 This is all about patience. The Right realised decades ago that the Overton Window can only be moved slowly; they have spent 50 years dragging it slowly right. The Left is always impatient, and naively imagines that somehow every election will magically result in a giant leap to a socialist utopia. Starmer is regarded not as the first step in a long grinding journey leftwards, but as ‘Tory lite’, a betrayal of everything. A few like Mick Lynch understand this, but he is unusual.

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@hengymrohebwlad A dream solution for 2024:
1. Make ‘deliberately or recklessly misleading the public’ a serious crime. If voters are not told the truth, their votes mean nothing, and democracy dies.
2. Use German/NZ-style PR voting system (additional member system).
3. Introduce UBI
4. Fully tax unearned income.
5. Add new higher tax band
6. Divide England into regions of size comparable with Scotland and Wales, each with a devolved parliament. Leave Westminster as the Federal Government.
HNY 👍

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@hengymrohebwlad A dream solution for 2024:
1. Make ‘deliberately or recklessly misleading the public’ a serious crime. If voters are not told the truth, their votes mean nothing, and democracy dies.
2. Use German/NZ-style PR voting system (additional member system).
3. Introduce UBI
4. Fully tax unearned income.
5. Add new higher tax band
6. Divide England into regions of size comparable with Scotland and Wales, each with a devolved parliament. Leave Westminster as the Federal Government.
HNY 👍

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@guigsy A great example of the Kimbeau effect… if things go smoothly, people come to believe the status-quo is inevitable, and start to focus on the small irritations. So they turn politics upside down in an attempt to fix the minor stuff, without realising that they will wreck the big things that way. That’s why people vote out left-wing Governments.

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@guigsy A great example of the Kimbeau effect… if things go smoothly, people come to believe the status-quo is inevitable, and start to focus on the small irritations. So they turn politics upside down in an attempt to fix the minor stuff, without realising that they will wreck the big things that way. That’s why people vote out left-wing Governments.

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I have long been of the opinion that economists’ estimations of ‘acceptable’ global warming were dangerously naive. This article by Ann Pettifor provides damning evidence of just how naive these calculations have been, and still are, sadly…
Essential reading for anyone still complacent about the climate emergency!

https://www. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/0 8/22/neoclassical-economists-are-the-last-people-to-listen-to-on-climate-change/

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#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

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I have long been of the opinion that economists’ estimations of ‘acceptable’ global warming were dangerously naive. This article by Ann Pettifor provides damning evidence of just how naive these calculations have been, and still are, sadly…
Essential reading for anyone still complacent about the climate emergency!

https://www. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/0 8/22/neoclassical-economists-are-the-last-people-to-listen-to-on-climate-change/

(Edited to fix the link)
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

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@SeaMonster @ChrisMayLA6 ‘Glazering’ is a word we need in the English language… bleeding institutions dry by loading up debt to pay huge dividends. It’s a far more effective way for the parasites to get richer than old-fashioned asset stripping, and probably even more destructive.

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@SeaMonster @ChrisMayLA6 ‘Glazering’ is a word we need in the English language… bleeding institutions dry by loading up debt to pay huge dividends. It’s a far more effective way for the parasites to get richer than old-fashioned asset stripping, and probably even more destructive.