Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,525
On social security payments, Labour are right to tackle a system originally designed to compensate workers whilst injured or sick from manual labour that is now bloated from those service economy workers receiving payments for mental illness.
Quite simply, we cannot afford to have this many working age people not working.
Labour were also right to end the strikes so that health and transport workers could get people fit and back to work.
Labour now have to find the money for defence. Not an easy task, especially as we are economically isolated in the global economy.
I'd like for the messaging to change. Starmer is taking the lead re the European defence of Ukraine, so talk up the co-operation, the practicalities, the common sense ways in which we can get closer to Europe to provide an effective military response to the threats posed by Russia. Let's create a climate whereby closer economic ties to the EU will be seen not as a betrayal of Brexit but as a logical response to shared military, security, environmental and economic threats in a post-Covid, Putin/Trump New World Order.
Quite simply, we cannot afford to have this many working age people not working.
Labour were also right to end the strikes so that health and transport workers could get people fit and back to work.
Labour now have to find the money for defence. Not an easy task, especially as we are economically isolated in the global economy.
I'd like for the messaging to change. Starmer is taking the lead re the European defence of Ukraine, so talk up the co-operation, the practicalities, the common sense ways in which we can get closer to Europe to provide an effective military response to the threats posed by Russia. Let's create a climate whereby closer economic ties to the EU will be seen not as a betrayal of Brexit but as a logical response to shared military, security, environmental and economic threats in a post-Covid, Putin/Trump New World Order.
