Chomper Higgot

How’s that not looking good for Starmer?

The only question is what’s the basis of all these imaginings?

Perhaps he can’t afford winter clothes.

A bit of revisionism from you there: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/trump-rallies-canceled-iowa-weather/index.html

You guess a lot of things, and of course what you dream up does make sense to you.

Splitting the rightwing vote is good news.

Let’s start with small stuff. The price of eggs.

Erm … no.

The courts handed down convictions tgat dispute your bizarre take on reality. And no I’m not suggesting anything you imagine.

I do, and when Proton said ‘we have suffered’ he was using the inclusive form. As it turns out, when pressed on the matter he hasn’t suffered at all.

So that’s a no, you haven’t suffered from any of these things beyond your own inability not to tugged around by those feeding you grievances.

Straight in with the strawman Jonny. Proton’s claim was ‘we’ve been suffering’ I’d like him to give an example of how he personally has been suffering.

The best post I’ve tad in this forum for a very long time.

Give me one example of how you personally have suffered from these maladies .

I wonder what the doomsters will make of this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/20/uk-second-most-attractive-country-for-investment-survey-finds

He’s pardoned people who were convicted of crimes relating to his call to ‘stop the count’. In truth his co-conspirators.

Trump the friend is disease.

Undermining the rule of law is ‘A great start’?

Of course he has, he needs to send a message ‘break the law for Trump, attempt to overthrow an election for Trump and Trump will look after you’.

I’m not surprised, I don’t have a ‘communist utopia’ you made that up.

Watched the inauguration speech, he doesn’t sound at all well.

I suggest focusing on not running out of your own money, or at least keeping an emergency reserve sufficient to pay your airfare home.

I don’t think it’s correct to say most millionaires pay no tax, but the range of tax avoidance schemes available to the rich provide ample opportunity for taxes to be massively reduced. Buying farms to avoid inheritance tax is an example.

No my problem is with neoliberalism and trickle down economics. In the post war period capitalism delivered consistent improvements in the life and welfare of working people, massively expanded the middle class and delivered consistent economic growth. All that came to an end in the late 1970s with the arrival of Neoliberalism and trickle down economics, deliver by Regan and Thatcher. Since then the welfare of working people has been on a consistent decline as the wealth and benefits built up in the post war period have been stripped out and handed to the hyper wealthy. Accelerating wealth distribution to the benefit of the rich and collapsing public services, withdrawn work place benefits for the majority and the growth of the precariat. So no, I have no problem with capitalism, refer my remarks on its post war period version, I am however not blind to the consequences of neoliberalism and trickle down economics. For the record: Living standards are falling and life expectancy is falling dramatically in poor areas. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-living-standards-fall-longest-60-years-records-began-economy-household-incomes-costs-energy-resolution-foundation-a8071146.html https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1056

The trouble with trickle down economics is eventually all the money ends up with a tiny hyper wealthy minority while the majority are left fighting over scraps as society falls apart. Privatized profits, socialized costs. It’s happening now in real time.