Greens’ Polanski Sets Out ‘Patriotic’ Case for UK Wealth Tax

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1. Populist slop. Never worked anywhere. Not gonna happen.

2. >Speaking to Bloomberg during the Greens’ three-day annual conference in Bournemouth that closed on Sunday afternoon, Polanski said left-wing economic policies — such as wealth taxes and deeper investment in public services — could help create a more equal society in which individuals and businesses would be proud to invest.

   I think Labour has forgotten the argument that businesses and talents can only thrive in the UK because of our public investments like NHS, roads, safety nets, and so on. The basic argument that privatising services for public needs like rail, water, energy will help the economy has been thoroughly discredited. I am glad that the Greens and Polanski are out there making the case again.

3. The plan: “Polanski, clearly unsatisfied with the Greens’ position as a fringe party, is now trying to assure potential voters that his party can be fiscally responsible as well as visionary.”

   The reality: “We hear a lot of worry about what the bond markets might do, as opposed to worrying about what democracy and the people who vote might do.”

   So just trussonomics but for the left this time.

4. Is this to pay for the endless wave of people coming here when he gets his open borders

5. Are we going to get updates on this bloke’s bowel movements too? Seen even more of him than even fucking Farage on here recently

   Edit > OP hiding post history too. A quick check also shows that most posts about Polanski come from the same three or four accounts. Make of that what you will.

6. I want to love the greens, I agree with almost all their policies, except on NATO and Trident, which they want to scrap. That is a point I cannot vote for, we are in an exclusive position of geopolitical leverage which they have said they want to give away, and that is bad for us as a nation.

7. Many Greens care deeply about maintaining ethnic and national identity, but certainly not with respect to Britain (you know where they do of course).

   In their minds Britain is an oppressor imperialist state. Anything in our history, art, and culture relating to that needs to be erased. Our only redemption lies in being established as a borderless international welfare hub. Our only culture as a multi culture.

   I’m not sure you can be a “revolutionary progressive patriot”. You can maybe talk about Our NHS or the welfare state, but I think any conception of “Britain” should probably go back before at least my Dad was born. It just looks like they’re doing their standard international socialist stuff and calling it patriotic. It rings hollow.

8. Lol funny to see all the parties talking about patriotism

9. What’s the point in a wealth tax when people can disappear overseas.
   The whole uk tax system is set up to avoid paying tax .

10. A wealth tax is a good idea but it would almost certainly raise less than expected (like everywhere else it has been tried)

    It’s also set to raise what? £20billion at best? That’s roughly half of Rachel Reeves current shortfall. It’s often seen on the left as the solution to all our problems but in reality it’s about equal to raising VAT by 2.5% in terms of revenue collected

11. They did take a bit of a ribbing previously for siding with NIMBYS on renewable projects. Hopefully they’ve realigned.

12. I see the tens of green supporters are still bouncing this guy around the echo chamber here. On course to win hundreds of votes lads! 

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