Not sure on the 16 year old vote. Does seem a little young.
Could've sworn they're your party of choice!
Because they have more radical plans for the environment and on climate change and transportation etc.
How does how attractive they look have any bearing on it?
But you're still voting Green!
I don't see how anybody could encourage mainstream parties to adopt Reform policies and attitude by lending them their vote:
Haven't independent studies rubbished pretty much all the parties' figures?
Only if you live in a child-like world where the government budget is like that of a household. The whole debate is around an entirely false premise.
The co leader was on question time tonight and I was extremely disappointed. Banged on about car scrappage scheme but when asked what the scrappage of a car was likely worth he said he didn't know . Yet he said their policies were fully costed .
), however, I’m all for government supporting wider projects that encourage growth and investment in the U.K. This can be done with funding and things like planning reform. You'd hope that lessons have been learned from the past/PFI.
It doesn’t matter which party is in power. The opposition always talk of the country being in decline…Like never before…Oops American opposition crept in!
To me, the current govt. did a remarkable job of imploding. Truss, ‘lend me your vote’, scandals etc. they did what Labour could not. In the meantime Labour re-emerged having cleaned their drains. I’m not at all sure about Star meh.I always look for a fairer society. Or the aim of a government to create a fairer society.
Over the past 14 years, the rich have got an awful lot richer, we now have food banks and 900,000 kids have been pushed into child poverty.
The poor just keep getting poorer, while the percentage of rich people getting richer, skyrockets. That's no way to run a government.
Hoping Labour will try and rectify that in some way, but if they don't, I will be looking to another party that maybe can.
There should never be billionaires and trillionaires about, while others are starving and in poverty.
What a world we have created here.
And I always look what is best for the country, for everyone, before I look to see how it affects me personally.
I am prepared to be worse off, if it helps someone less fortunate than myself.
Not convinced on Labour here, but it's the only other option right now, in a two party system, as the Lib Dems never seem to get their act together.
I am a socialist, but do accept the world has changed. Labour had to move to the centre.
Hoping there will be something new and forward thinking in the not too distant future.
Funnily enough, amongst the people I know who are about to vote for the first ever time (so 18, 19 and 20 year olds), they are all going to vote Green.
I think Greens are really popular amongst the younger generation.
Anyway, let's make the world a better and fairer place, whoever is in power. Not holding my breath though.
My missus and I both lost parents during COVID and I can never forgive the Tories for partying whilst the rest of us locked down. I can't get beyond it even now. I'm not a labour voter because our circumstances mean we are usually worse off under labour but on this occasion I'm leaning towards them because they don't stink quite as much as the other options.
We have the skills in sciences, but the pay is terrible by comparison to certain other countries. It has not been valued in this country for a long time.I don’t disagree with a majority of that. I was having my, what feels like weekly, to and fro with Fernando about monetary policy theory
I wouldn’t discount Labour encouraging private investment as well though. PFI was a shitshow and as you say, governments can borrow cheaper so fuck knows what they were thinking (Labour
We also agree that the country is desperately in need of some longer term industrial/infrastructure planning and strategy. The world is changing rapidly and there are opportunities around tech, financials services, energy, sciences etc (where we have the skills) that we should be grasping with both hands.
How would you feel about a govt saying they would print a large chunk of money but limited to once in a parliament for a specified investment, say enabling transferring to green energy? Compare how the effect on the currency would work out compared to borrowing and the interest that would accrue.ts nothing to do with whether it’s like a household budget, you’re the only one who keeps mentioning that. Whether you believe you need to tax people so they directly contribute towards government expenditure or do so to take money out the system as part of MMT, is kind of irrelevant to me. Both will ultimately reduce an individuals purchasing power and pretty much every country runs a massive deficit to cover expenditure these days anyway, so tax might well be an ever decreasing contribution towards expenditure anyway
I’ve gone into detail several times explaining the challenges of just printing excessive amounts for day to day government expenditure* (debasement of currency and inflation) and the fact that QE/printing usually benefits the richest. Check the loss of purchasing power over the last 20 years ie what you can buy for your £ or $
Many who follow MMT theory have in the past considered Japan as a potential example of how it might work in reality. Check their currency’s performance in recent years, it’s been fucked and they now have 260% debt to gdp. They are currently praying the Fed starts cutting rates and inflation remains suppressed, both of which are outside their direct control, otherwise they could be in trouble. The theory itself states that it relies upon stable currencies but as has been demonstrated in recent years, this is bordering on impossible to guarantee due to global issues beyond a country’s control as we live in a global world - why some people who follow the theory continue to ignore this quite important part of the theory I don’t know
*I’ve explained before I’ve no issue with QE/borrowing for investment but ideally it has to be tied in with growth
Would they have to print money? Can’t they just issue government bonds?
Just done 2024 General Election survey - Vote for Policies and it came out 50% LD and 50% Lab. Bit of a surprise but it does distill the main policies and there were some green ones I liked not mentioned. Only really seen Reform policies via this website (although it's blind it's pretty obvious which were theirs). basically demonisation of foreigners and the poor.
Sorry. Didn't actually properly analyse the Reform one so wasn't including them.
I think the LD manifesto is a little to the left of Labour. Back to the Kennedy days!
Just need a charismatic leader then. If they get some more MPs maybe they widen their pool enough to find one.
44% LD, 44% Green, 12% Lab here
