Starmer has confirmed Labour will KEEP austerity if it wins in 2024, saying he will not “turn on the spending taps”.
by jammybam
Starmer has confirmed Labour will KEEP austerity if it wins in 2024, saying he will not “turn on the spending taps”.
by jammybam
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Don’t change the headline, you silly goose.
Friendly reminder that Austerity – especially unending Austerity – is a political choice made to protect the Capital of the wealthiest.
If Labour so chose, they could easily [redistribute the existing wealth](https://i0.wp.com/revisesociology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/wealth-distribution-uk-2022.png?ssl=1) via tax reform.
Austerity has also been responsible for [335,000 excess deaths between 2012 and 2019.](https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_885099_en.html) It is institutional violence against the most vulnerable in our society.
It’s the job of the establishment – whether Tory or Red Tory – to convince the public that ‘there’s no other choice’ and ‘their hands are tied’. This is not the case, and it never has been.
The only way we will ever close the insane gap between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of us who don’t even register as a blip on the scale, those of us who have to wear gloves indoors and only spend on necessities, is with the full powers of an independent country.
Labour will not “turn on the spending taps” if it wins the next election, Keir Starmer will say on Monday, bolstering the view of some senior Labour MPs that he is preparing to sign up to austerity-style public sector cuts.
The Labour leader will use a speech on the economy to warn that Britain is in its worst economic state in more than half a century and lay the ground for what shadow ministers expect to be extremely tight spending constraints after the general election.
The speech marks the first time Starmer has spoken publicly about the long-term path of public sector spending since last month’s autumn statement, which put the UK on course for another round of sweeping public sector cuts after the election.
The speech marks the first time Starmer has spoken publicly about the long-term path of public sector spending since last month’s autumn statement, which put the UK on course for another round of sweeping public sector cuts after the election.
In a speech to the Resolution Foundation, he will say: “Anyone who expects an incoming Labour government to quickly turn on the spending taps is going to be disappointed … It’s already clear that the decisions the government are taking, not to mention their record over the past 13 years, will constrain what a future Labour government can do.”
He will add: “This parliament is on track to be the first in modern history where living standards in this country have actually contracted. Household income growth is down by 3.1% and Britain is worse off.
This isn’t living standards rising too slowly or unequal concentrations of wealth and opportunity. This is Britain going backwards. This is worse than the 1970s, worse than the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, and worse even than the great crash of 2008.”
Preparing for an election at some point next year, Starmer will make clear that times are much worse now than they were in 2010 when the Conservative and Lib Dem coalition government instigated their austerity measures: “Never before has a British government asked its people to pay so much, for so little.”
Just cant help yourself but break rule 2 can you? Pillock.