Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "LBC"
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@thatguy2608 He fell into the trap of talking about credentials, rather than actual monetary, fiscal, or tax policies that would alleviate poverty and widen the middle class (which means shortening the rich).
There was nothing to dumb down, it was a "rich get richer spiel", but offered no way to stop it.
I'm pasting from an econ channel, but it's my comment:
"You can fix that by firstly raising the income tax allowance, which should be increased to within 75% of the median wage (broken down by county) and then pegged to the RPI. The minimum wage should be inflation adjusted (to say 2007 pounds, right before the crash) and then pegged to the RPI. VAT should be scrapped for everything but luxury goods, at 35%"
Just those policies would help the bottom 90%, but Gary had none.
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@jonathandnicholson
--“True regarding no legal compulsion to enact the result from the enacted legislation”
--The poll obviously isn’t legislation and there was no bill tied to the poll; they didn’t even know what the question meant (at the time, which is why the speak of customs union and Swiss deal were bandied about).
--“(50% of the electorate plus one vote because, for a binary vote, that is how democracy works)”
--Major constitutional changes (which leaving the EU, is) ALWAYS require a threshold to add legitimacy to the result. Who told you that constitutional changes don’t require a threshold? From what planet did you glean that?
--“Referendum means a vote on a particular issue to direct policy, so I would regard the result as morally and politically if not legally binding”
--There was no legal binding, that’s how we know it wasn’t a referendum; and morality doesn’t come into it, since these are Tories we’re talking about (they lied to the Queen about proroguing parliament, so spare the morality speak). The winning vote was only 51.8%, a number that would never breach ANY threshold.
--“how would you have felt/what would you have said if Remain won and, say, Boris Johnson said 'Well, the legislation did not compel us to implement the result, so we are going to leave anyway'?”
--That’s not the question to ask. The question to ask, is: “If we were outside the EU, and the public polling showed 51.8% of voters to go into the EU, but UK politicians say we won’t go in, because the poll was advisory and we don’t need to act”? We’re moving from the status quo to a new position.
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