Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Social care: Sir Keir Starmer calls for wealth tax option" video.

  1. He's right. But he's also a centrist neoliberal and almost as bad as the Tories. Red or Blue flavoured neoliberalism?
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  2.  @philip_bray  Far left? Yes, I believe in fair wages, a fair legal system, human rights, equality, free speech, not forcing taxpayers to fork out on corporate greed, being paid enough to buy a house and support a family in a decent society and have a decent pension in my old age. So yes that makes me an extremist...
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  3.  Leonidas I  My wishlist was the reality back in the 70s. Impossible to have such basic needs met?
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  4.  @GARDENER42  lol it's a Myth Tories had the same troubles as did half of Europe. The second Myth is also easily put to bed. I dislike Blair, but his Labour government reduced debt to GDP by 4% and only borrowed just over £140 billion in the decade before the crisis. US Bankers caused the financial crisis and around 30-40 countries all tied to the dollar were affected. The cross-party decision to bail out the banks caused the deficit and debt rise, it was £350 billion and decided by parliament as a whole! The decade following that the tories borrowed around £1 trillion. They've also spread the anaemic pound thinner by creating £400 billion in bonds, lowered our triple-A credit rating twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. Not to mention lost trillions on the notion of 'Sovereign Tea'...
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  5. A Blair tribute act.
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  6.  @jhjhjhjhjhjhify  He's paid by corporate and state lobbyists and has hounded every Social Democrat out of the party virtually. He's a Blair tribute act...
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  7.  @sandraakapuddinpop9540  Just my terminal sarcasm and flowery wordplay. I sometimes think we should have criminals do community service as politicians. Maybe they'd do a better job, right? I mean how could they do any worse? Then I think maybe not, as having criminals in charge of the treasury is what got us into this mess in the first place...
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  8.  Leonidas I  lol an ideological chameleon then...
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  9.  @tommiko8313  Historically the Labour party rebuilt Britain after the ww2, replaced slums with social housing, gave us medical care, legal aid, worker's rights, nationalised the BOE, Water, Communications, Energy, Coal. Transport etc (Much of which has now been privatised at the cost of £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies and taxpayer bailouts). They gave us public transport, public libraries, public parks. But since Blair dropped clause 4 we haven't had a Labour party. Centrist neoliberals now run the left in the UK and the US ensuring a corporate-friendly party in power whoever wins. The left are now called extreme and we have the choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism...
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  10.  Leonidas I  The media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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