RE: The interesting clause25 Apr 2024 14:19
Greener, God help us if a bloke with his political and former local authority background has been selected to manage Britain's finances ("James Murray is currently Shadow Financial Secretary (Treasury))". Almost as good as Angela Raynor (remember her - the one who left school with more children that GCSEs?). Jeremy Corbyn picked her as shadow education secretary.
I'm joining the Labour Party and applying for the job: "shadow housework secretary", or maybe "shadow knitting secretary". I'm sure I would be very adept at both.
I'm not having a go at you btw, as I enjoy reading your posts, which are always well-constructed. You can be trusted to have "dyor" and to have reached sensible conclusions. Various people in the Labour Party have said various things, none safe to regard as "official Labour Policy". They all say whatever they think Joe Public, whose vote they're after, will approve of and swallow. I'm far from sure even Rachel Reeves knows what they'll do, but what Miliband has promised (he represents the left of an already violently left Party) is the closest we're likely to be getting to the truth about his plans at least. What he wants is important and he'll quite possibly get, because Stoma won't want a split immediately on getting the post he so desperately wants, to enable him to turn his socialist (some communist) ideals into reality. Just wait 'til you find out how much he intends to bleed "those with the broadest shoulders" of their savings - ie you and me. It's scary.
O/T - it will be 50 years on 23 Aug since I left the holiday isle as a recently qualified CA to get a couple of years experience in London. I'm not quite sure what happened. It would be of no interest to others even if I was. Were family and other circumstances not to prevent it, I'm pretty sure I'd be heading back to where I still regard as home, even after all these years, when Labour gets voted in by people who have no idea of the horrors they're voting for.
Joe Public will almost certainly be voting for poverty caused by unaffordable (even if it could be guaranteed to be available) energy. And a whole lot more on top, in times when politicians make it absolutely clear that failure is to be lauded and success punished. There are more failures than successes and education has been dumbed down to ensure the masses don't understand much about anything, to the extent they'll vote for anything they're told is good for them. Someone else will always pay.
What a country to live in - never in a million years did I ever think it would ever come to this. I recommend re-reading 1984 - it seems to have been set as the agenda. I appear to be the spit of Winston Smith.
It's a conspiracy, Guv.
Does anyone know if shares can go up as well as down?
dyor
These politicians actions are an act of self-destruction of a country I used to be proud to live in