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The bankers got away with the subprime fiasco several of them should have served jail sentences, the same with the PPI scam the banks knew exactly what they were doing that's why a bank like Lloyds didn't contest many if any of the claims, yet they were quick enough to stop paying their share holder dividends.

 

Why didn't Labour persue the renationalisation under Blair when they were in office with a 179 majority and could guarentee at least a second term and possibly a third unless the messed up big time with that sort of majority.
With regards your red wall and Labour supporters voting Tory that has been done to death, for a leaver there was no other party to honour the referendum result, the other parties were dumb leaving only Labour offering leavers a ridiculous scenario aying they would renegotiate the deal then vote against it if you remember.

 

Irrelevant of party all politicians now are career politicians.

There is little difference between the so called right and left.

None are driven by the beliefs that drove their predecessors (for instance inequality and unfairness) to rail against the incumbent government.

Politics is dead and the government is just another level of management. (Usually managing for their own gain).

My opinions only (long live the revolution).

 

There should be no question of not having the basics to sustain life.
I'm not suggesting that we suddenly stop burning fossil fuel tomorrow. That would be ridiculous. But we should be investing much more in wind and wave power. We have about 7500 miles of coastline that can be used for wind and wave power projects. There are scores of land-based wind farms that have planning permission to be built but the Tories won't build them for fear of upsetting NIMBY voters (although surveys suggest that most people are actually far more amenable to new wind farms than the politicians are). We need to phase out reliance on fossil fuel. It can be done if the will is there.

 

Twit?
Correct vowel?

 

Thanks for that Vladimir.

 

Of course they are. Just like they are shareholders in companies like BAE systems and Lockheed Martin to name but two. Simply put, this cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine and the covid crisis has seen the the very few people who hold most of the worlds wealth become richer quicker than at any time in their lives.
The ones at the top don't ever suffer no matter what the narrative.

 

Absolutely
The "Rich and Powerful" are investing already but not in progressive industry eg Bill Gates buying farmland Why ???
Property a one time sound investment will soon be priced out the market house prices will soon collapse with many many thousands of people plunging hopelessly toward negative equity, who will be able to afford a mortgage when interest rates reach double figures (it won't be long,)
This will bite the Tories in the bum soon enough it's always been the same with them the rich get richer the poor get poorer maybe if Liz Truss spent a day at a foodbank or soup kitchen it would give her a reality check (I doubt it)
No great shocks

 

Tories : " we're going to give everyone one million pounds and you no longer have to go to work...Labour: " It's not enough" ...

 

You have to wonder why the Tories went down the route of austerity in 2010 when lending was at an all time low, yet now lending is on the rise its fine to burden the country for decades to come with regards their future lending.

 

Russia invading another European sovereign country isn't just 'Russian business'. If Putin had been allowed to just walk all over Ukraine it would have been Moldova next, then the Baltic States and then on to Poland. Putin wants to reclaim as much of the old USSR as he can. Showing weakness to him would just have encouraged his megalomania even further.
Not sure why you don't seem to get this.

 

Unfortunatly that won't happen for another 3 years.

 

I'm not sure why folk can't actually see how the rich get richer every single year. Every penny their wealth goes up has to be squeezed out of people with no choice.but to pay it. It's why their system dictates that you have to work longer every year before you actually start earning for yourself and not paying the taxman. Its why wages never realistically go up with inflation, why stealth taxes are brought in through Westminsters back doors. Why parking charges go up every year etc, all chipping away at the masses.so the rich become even wealthier.

 

She will be getting her hair and make up done next week to resemble Thatcher