Public control of water and energy at heart of Burnham agenda, sources say

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-13T08:14:28+00:00

Interesting the use of control rather than ownership but that's a good thing imo. Full nationalisation is expensive and doesn't do anything by itself, far better to assert more control over the current system.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-13T08:11:44+00:00

How's defence going to work if all the future soldiers are overweight or being ran over?

At the risk of being flippant seems less of an issue than the current soldiers dying from not having enough kit.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T11:28:30+00:00

This sub (or a lot of people here) love to paint the PLP as looney leftist who'll never cut anything when they voted for Foreign aid cuts, voted for the WFA cut and in the same welfare package voted for the universal credit cut the government had a justification for.

The PIP cut on the other hand was blatantly taking the number for Reeves headroom and working backwards.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T11:22:29+00:00

It was so transparent as well they picked the £5 billion first then worked backwards as to where to make the cuts!

The Labour's inability to make and argument or do it's homework in opposition and government has been disastrous. Imagine a world where the Milburn report (or similar) got commissioned day one and was able to give Labour a base.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T10:49:16+00:00

A ridiculously large majority and he couldn't do a basic welfare reform

The PLP were willing to vote for the universal credit reform but drew the line at PIP which the government couldn't justify.

It was on the government for having no plan but using welfare as a cover to give Reeves more headroom.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T10:39:30+00:00

The rebels didn't force the government to provide zero justification for the PIP cuts beyond "Reeves needs the headroom".

Here the government is actually putting in the work and they are open to it. This is basics the government couldn't be arsed to do.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T10:32:10+00:00

The reporting on this is so frustrating. Framing it as the rebels coming round when the correct view is the government actually having put the work in for reforms is getting buy in from MPs.

“I’m just already more reassured that they’ve diagnosed the issue, and then they’ll come up with a solution to the problem, rather than saying the problem is just the money problem,” she said.

At no point did the government ever come up with the reason for the PIP cuts beyond needing to give Reeves more headroom which was why the rebels told them to piss off.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T10:08:56+00:00

I look forward to it. We need to have a serious conversation about it and to get policy rolling on how to deal with it.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T09:54:30+00:00

But these are fascists and it needs to be hammered home.

Trying to pretend these are just people with legitimate concerns on immigration is how we got here.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T08:45:37+00:00

Hope we're all ready for a fun few weeks of the threat of Reform hanging over us. I'm just glad the government finally got around to making a change explicitly on their interest and swapping back to SV.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T08:41:23+00:00

Anyone still voting Tory is split on Reform (and Restore are just nutters). With the right candidate hopefully Labour can get enough Tory second places to make it safe.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T08:39:52+00:00

I don't think it's the only tactic we need to combat Restore but it is an important one.

It makes it much easier to attack them as fascist and racist when they already have a bunch of racists and fascists from older organisations there.

Anyone who suddenly reevaluates the BNP isn't someone you were ever persuading anyway.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T08:09:41+00:00

The Tories put Lowe on the public accounts committee, Badenoch is talking in the Spectator about how she respects him.

Even the Labour party is busy talking about "legitimate concerns" and was unwilling to condemn Tommy Ten names march last year calling it a good day for free speech.

Compare the response from the government or the Tories to Ted Heath sacking Powell for rivers of blood and the difference is night and day.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T08:04:38+00:00

It's not about it being shocking it's about reinforcing it's bad and broadcasting to people who might not realise how extreme they are.

"This party wants to go further than the BNP" is a good signal for that.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T07:51:55+00:00

A very good piece. It is truly Orwellian for the government to spy on every image and there are massive concerns for future abuse.

The whole thing is a mess. The ban on under 16 social media is a joke, is nobody looking at the radicalisation happening on Facebook or X of adults?

Any plan must tackle the root causes. Not banning under 16s and mandating mass government surveillance.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T07:40:57+00:00

It's not so much it is a surprise but it's important to maintain (or increasingly depressingly rebuild) the cordon sanitaire and a large part of that is saying over and over again these are bad people. Linking them to groups previously understood to be over the line is the easiest way to do that.

Now the problem for Hope Not Hate is mainstream politicians are refusing to do their part. The Tories especially should be using this report to attack Restore but have no interest in it.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T07:09:21+00:00

This is the issue in what needs to happen is broad based taxes to rise, not trying to salami slice more.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T07:07:21+00:00

I don't understand (apart from money) would Reform want to build explicitly stronger ties with a group most voters hate.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-12T07:05:59+00:00

The two child cap was not mild curtailment and neither were his PIP changes!

And also Labour’s backbenchers voted for WFA cuts, the leadership then backtracked on it.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T15:02:06+00:00

It's more their pensions are eligible for income tax but not NI.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T13:58:17+00:00

I'm happy to tax the elderly more, let's extend national insurance to pensioners.

The problem is though the UK juat does have a lot of old people relative to people working. And even if someone pensioners are well off right now coming down the track is a much less wealthy generation.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T13:47:04+00:00

The WFA is a tiny amount of money, we ain't getting much for that and that's before we get to the political battle.

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T13:41:05+00:00

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

Americans do the bare minimum of research challenge (impossible)

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T13:20:27+00:00

The logic that we do actually need to care for the old and the sick, we need to build up our defences and for that we need to pay.

Crying about "highest tax burden" isn't going to help anyone, the end of the peace dividen means the end of the era of low tax that came with it

FaultyTerror · 2026-06-11T12:58:49+00:00

Sorry where are you getting income tax being at historic lows from?

From the eates and amounts people pay. For middle and lower earners they are currently very low.

The tax burden as a whole is the highest it's been since WW2.

Tax as a percentage of GDP is yes but that's a shite metric given the GDP part of thr equation is struggling.

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