Opinion.
Here's a real actual fact.
A fact is that the Labour party won the last General Election. No opinion - A fact
Labour won the last General Election and then took away the WFA payment. That is another fact. No opinion - A fact
How do you know what state the UK economy would have been in had we remained in the EU. You don't, you can have an opinion about it but you cannot know that for a fact.
Yes I hate politicians that lie... Labour/Conservatives and yes even Reform all of them. Sadly they all do in my opinion.
I cannot be certain but I believe there will be several factors that will be likely to have contributed to and influenced the current state of the UK economy, things like the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Liz Truss debacle for example to name but three and indeed leaving the EU itself. How would the UK economy be if they hadn't happened, you cannot know. How would the UK economy have fared with the Covid 19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Luz Truss debacle had we been in the EU? Again you cannot know but you can have an opinion.
Check out Gary Stevenson's you tube channel and he explains it brilliantly.
What we have seen is the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in history. That has led to the rise of Reform and other far right parties across Europe.
As for your facts, yes Labour won a majority, but it is built on sand, around 33% of the population voted for the party which I think is one of the lowest winning vote share ever for a Government. However it is one of the iniquities of our voting system that it happens like that. i think the last government to be elected with over 50% of the vote share was labour in 1945.
Taking away the WFA has been an absolute disaster as has been keeping the two child welfare cap. It has alienated many left wing thinking people who expected better of a Labour government.
You can have an opinion about the leaving the EU and what has ensued, it has also been further complicated by the daft deranged orange **** being elected in the USA. With hindsight leaving the EU and i thought we should btw looks a disaster not because of covid etc but because of the Orange faced lunatic. The UK is in a difficult place, we need the USA and we need the EU for trade purposes, where do we go though. The daft orange faced pricks tariffs are going to affect world trade and as we are alone we could suffer, as part of the EU we could face them down because we would be part of a bigger market despite my ideals of thinking the EU was nothing more than a club for Capitialist corporate enterprise designed to take advantage of the working class.
As a country we are at a crossroads and what has happened historically in many countries is that parties that have appealed to nationalism, patriotism, racism have prospored in times when the working class are suffering at the hands of their capitalist masters.
Marxists argue that fascism represents the last attempt of a ruling class (specifically, the capitalist bourgeoisie) to preserve its grip on power in the face of an imminent proletarian revolution. There will be no revolution in the UK because the left has been so ostracised by the media/establishment to such an extent that the Labour party is now a main stream centrist party extolling right wing values.
I saw a tweet on X today saying people like me are peado/grooming gang apologists, it was liked by loads of people and it disturbed me. Its a deliberate far right tactic to divide the working class on an issue that affects a small minority of people, of course it disgusts me that these gangs do it, but it is always a certain section of society that get the majority of the coverage whilst the larger section goes unreported and ignored. This vilification of certain ethnic groups only serves the likes of Reform's agenda which is i believe an ethno nationalistic state.
As for the Labour party, Starmer has to go, he has been a disaster, him Reeves and that **** Streeting can fuck off for me, i hate the cunts nearly as much as i hated the lying narcissistic **** Johnson.
I will end this post with a brilliant quote from Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the USA
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men"
And in the words of Vladimir Lenin
Any cook should be able to run the country
