Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Why Keir Starmer won’t reverse the child benefit cap | UK politics | New Statesman" video.

  1. “Fiscal Responsibility,” means holding the people who make us poor to account, crushing the biggest financial crimes with sentences comparable to criminal sentencing, windfall taxes on the energy companies and banks, who have been profiting from British crises, forcing chain supermarkets to link their prices to inflation, rather than only putting them up only when inflation rises. There are countless potential policies that don’t hurt Britain where it’s most vulnerable. We need to encourage population growth, desperately. It’s become the key metric by which a country’s economic future stands or falls and the clock is ticking. And it’s a chance to cement 10 years of power with large families relying on Labour support, which might buy them another 10 years, by which time they have produced a generation of Labour voters!
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  2. It’s the one thing that people are bound to pay out for, as they cannot afford to, “take their business elsewhere.” Pubs, restaurants, supermarkets, etc, etc, simply have to pay their staff. They have no alternatives. Early in honeymoon period is the perfect time to introduce a policy that will be popular with just about everyone but a minority of mid-level business owners and chain store lobbyists who shouldn’t be getting private access to policy makers anyway. Dismantling the current lobby system is another thing that should go hand in hand with this. Yes, charities, concerned citizens and issues-based collective groups should have a mechanism by which to make representations to parliament. But, aren’t we ALL heartily SICK of, “think tanks,” which are nothing more than Masonic Lodges of rich people, looking to buy people like Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Richi Sunack, for their private ownership collections? We need BRUTAL laws, swiftly enforced, against private businesses seeking advantage through illegal lobbying! They are DESTROYING Britain. Our water companies are NOT, “privatised,” as there is NO COMPETITION! Why bother to stop raw sewage getting into British water when no competitors are able to offer to do a better job, you only drink imported water and you barely visit Britain anyway, living in a none-dom country? Same with the rail networks. Lots of little fiefdoms that don’t compete, but just OWN their patches! It’s oligarchy, Russian style, and it’s leading us down a Yeltsin style toilet!
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  3. ⁠​⁠ @Old_Scot : I wouldn’t bother engaging this troll, my friend. Unknown_whatever is clearly just trying to change the subject, rather than have people discuss doing something that might be actually helpful. Either that or he needs a therapist more than social media, given how dead the issue of Lockdowns is. There’s a good chance s/he’s just an algorithm anyway. Next s/he’ll be complaining about Suez! 😉✌️
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