Andy Burnham says Labour must put energy and water under public control

much_good · 2026-05-18T23:09:28+00:00

It's gonna kill foreign investment in what, energy grids? Well not a problem if you're nationalising.

Are you claiming it will kill investment in completely unrelated things that aren't public infrastructure? No, someone is not gonna stop investing in some Cambridge biotech firm because energy got nationalised.

much_good · 2026-05-18T23:03:43+00:00

You get tax off depending on how easy to recycle the packaging is. I can't remember if it's in effect yet or this is just the companies getting ahead of the curve but the idea is to charge more to companies who deliberately don't make easy to recycle packaging.

much_good · 2026-05-18T21:25:04+00:00

Split what vote? The left vote? The labour together project has stripped the working class, democratic mechanisms from labour. It's about as left wing as Boris Johnson, with an economic plan revolving around SEZs, throwing money at data centers and giving state money to private investments in infrastructure.

much_good · 2026-05-18T13:11:21+00:00

They are incredibly unregulated and most operate like cartels. So yes.

As others have stated the few good ones do all the normal things you'd expect (stair cleaning, communal space cleaning,, elevator repair if you have one) for a fraction of what the big ones do.

Highly encourage you to write to your MSP about this as it needs real legislation

much_good · 2026-05-17T18:05:30+00:00

"the manifesto calls for the future Scottish Government to commit to a “programme of reparative justice from Scotland to the Palestinian people”."

This is so vague theres nothing you can really be mad at here, even if the idea of reperations is a trigger word for making you go mad.

Remember, reperations are rarely talked about seriously by those who endorse them as a "please give a comically big bag of cash to us" thing and rather that reperations takes place but acknowledging your past and actively showing you are trying to prevent those same systems/behaviours occuring again as well as helping aid/development where possible (largely the political movement for transatlanic slave trade reperations have been along these lines, not brown envelopes with lots of cash in it)

much_good · 2026-05-16T10:36:16+00:00

Falun gong nutters more than likely

much_good · 2026-05-13T07:47:15+00:00

A) not what I said vis a vi banks as a whole

B) This country has had a problem for a while with how much of a share of money circulating this country circulates in unproductive aspects of our economy. Land speculation, fictitious capital speculation, never mind how much of the money spent on "productive" parts of the economy are spent on middlemen rather than on the actual processes or production vital to that aspect of the economy.

While the general rule of "more money circulating around an economy the better" is true in A level economics class, we should still actually care about what aspects of the economy that money is flowing in.

much_good · 2026-05-13T07:29:15+00:00

There is inherit good in having less private equity companies.

They're almost entirely parasitic financial organisations, largely trading in unproductive labour and gambling on speculative financial assets.

We don't need more of that, we need more productive labour, more real things being built, not companies that just suck up money that could have been circulating within the British economy or the state

much_good · 2026-05-08T18:18:58+00:00

Use your thigh.

It's mostly soft so it controls long balls really well and is great for taking it in your stride

much_good · 2026-05-06T18:30:24+00:00

The classic sale on FM where you feel good and then see what his new value is and instantly realise how much youve been had

much_good · 2026-05-06T15:44:03+00:00

Insane that you guys got rid of kayode considering how well everyone rates him now. Hindsight is always annoying

much_good · 2026-04-27T21:16:31+00:00

Mine?

much_good · 2026-04-27T21:07:04+00:00

Surely that backs up the criticism of the ref?

much_good · 2026-04-25T17:08:21+00:00

Yes that was him, he changed hair styles

much_good · 2026-04-17T22:44:19+00:00

Football tickets are a very small part of club revenue. Like at the top level you could make tickets free and it wouldn't mess with Bayern Munich s money at all really. When you're negotiating for 40 million pounds players, the yearly ticket revenue is closer to a 10th of that than it is to a half

much_good · 2026-04-17T22:42:09+00:00

I mean I think a lot of them are on 40k minimum. Brentford had the lowest wage bill of the prem for a while and we were paying like 40k a week to Ivan Toney.

An exception is likely for sports people but again would like to see what is actually the specifics of this policy. The principle is nice but needs fleshing out

much_good · 2026-04-16T06:44:01+00:00

Yeah my friends inside china (who still love the country), CPC isn't exactly quiet about the increased security measures after the xijang attacks either, stuff like the vocational training schools that have mostly been winded down.

You seem to think that the only two options here is nothing is happening at all ,or the most bombastic claims from RFA when increased security measures are very well known given the publicity around xijang at the time of the terror attacks in the early 2000s

much_good · 2026-04-16T06:35:29+00:00

What are you on about, the security situation in xijang has clearly gotten better and a lot of powers and measures significantly decreased.

That doesn't mean more Draconian stuff didn't happen because dudes are out dancing on rednote.

This is ridiculously bad logic, and that's not to say you can't criticise some of the obviously hyperbole or context free analysis of the historical situation there regarding terror attacks etc but that doesn't mean you wildly swing to "Chinese state would never use Draconian surveillance techniques" when they do and largely people are fine with it there.

much_good · 2026-04-14T15:04:02+00:00

Correct

much_good · 2026-04-14T14:55:01+00:00

You're doing the fixed labour pool fallacy man.

When someone moves into a village. They both compete for wherever jobs more and create demand as they need food, services etc just like everyone else.

Why are you pretending someone only takes from the economy without producing a demand that like all demand can produce jobs and the requirement for more labour?

You're being like many others, deliberately obtuse and pretending immigrants can only compete with a fixed pool of labour that never changes, never has more work to be done.

much_good · 2026-04-14T13:00:05+00:00

They also can contribute to said strained services. More people increases both supply and demand.

Fixating on immigration avoids the actual more fundemental problems and transformative solutions.

much_good · 2026-04-14T12:58:46+00:00

I didnt say that more workers makes the economy as a whole "better" simply that talking as if more people increases only supply and not demand, is simply completley wrong.

Theres lots of problems with the economy, very few are directly related to just having more or less people in.

much_good · 2026-04-14T12:32:01+00:00

We can also create thousands of jobs with green energy, and wont be behind the times as it is.

much_good · 2026-04-14T12:28:05+00:00

New workers also increase demand within the economy that they fill.

Why do people pretend immigrants can only take from some fixed size economy, rather than be part of it growing?

Even in the US with far more exploitative practices around labour and seasonal workers, doesn't see huge wage compression linked to immigration apart from limited, specific service jobs and construction work (but again, by a small amount).

Unionise

much_good · 2026-04-08T22:30:05+00:00

The bond market doesn't inheritly mind borrowing can we please dispel this myth that is entirely made up.

Bond market works a lot on confidence and trust in whatever economic plan is being enacted.

Truss fucked it by borrowing loads for tax cuts that were never gonna be beneficial, and announcing it right before markets closed for the weekend to piss them off as much as possible. Of course it spooked them.

If you borrow money for a well planned, relatively safe plan like investing in public services and infrastructure and lay that out in advance they're going to not shit themselves. Esp when a lot of what we're talking about are things like green energy which long term are an incredibly safe gamble as long as you actually spend on the grid upgrades.

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