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Sep 25Liked by Matt Carr

Reeves may have promised "no tory austerity", but she's made it a nameless part of her 'fiscal rules'. She's not prepared to do the job that's needed. She's chosen to ignore all the sectors where need is the greatest. completely blinkered to the urgency of the help that's needed for anyone who can't be filed under 'working person'. ... and she's made it clear that "Labour doesn't represent people on benefits". She's a pig-headed tory.

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Sep 24Liked by Matt Carr

It is perhaps noteworthy that the BBC Political Editor trousers a considerably larger sum for his efforts than either Sue Gray or Sir Keeves.

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Sep 24Liked by Matt Carr

Spot on with this article Matt!

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Sep 24Liked by Matt Carr

Needs to be said hope they’re listening

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With oil the master resource, the global economy is hitting limits to growth.

https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-end-of-growth-why-oil-prices-are-falling/

https://ourfiniteworld.com/

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/

In this respect, Starmer’s political strategy has been to politicise secular stagnation knowing that there is very little that can be done about it beyond marginal tweaks.

This structural predicament positions his crowing statement of “the weak and cowardly fantasy of populism” as a reflection of himself in that he cannot be honest with the public for fear of upsetting financial debt markets when the right populist reality is that it is population contraction that will ensure long term national sufficiency, resilience and sustainability by reducing demand pressures on housing, agricultural land, public services and globally scarce energy/materials.

This highlights that he is actually in government for himself and his corporate cronies such as Dale Vince who will be receiving huge taxpayer funded subsidies through Net Zero. In other words, Starmer’s doggedness is driven by self enrichment and the enrichment of his friends with his deflection strategy being to shift attention away from himself and redirect it either to the Tories, populists (right and left) or to far right thugs in an attempt to sustain a vaneer of moral superiority that he thinks will deproblemise his already apparent pig troughing.

However the flaw in his self enrichment plan is that the public can see right the way through his hollow national renewal rhetoric which leaves an open goal for the Right.

So the big question is how will the Left organise itself in service to the country. Will they deploy the Truth or will they continue to deploy Falsity.

For example, what about all the coal that required to make metallurgical silicon for solar panels and silicon chips.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/11062024-coals-importance-for-solar-panel-manufacturing-oped/?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=2024-09-14%20Natural%20Gas%20or%20Coal&utm_medium=email#google_vignette

And what about all the foreign land that is required to satisfy the needs of population growth in the UK.

https://www.wwf.org.uk/riskybusiness

If the goal is a globally coordinated redistribution of energy and materials to provide a good life for all, how are authoritarian regimes and superpowers like the US to be brought on board.

It's one thing to criticise, it's another to have a comprehensive and coherent plan that is able to be delivered through global consent.

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