Keir Starmer

[Mr Kobayashi]

I’m not a Starmer sycophant. I’d love for our country to be run similar to that in Scandinavia.

Sadly, we don’t have the numbers to get there yet and a vote for Brexit was always going to mean a lurch to the right, rather than the left.

Maybe you’re playing the long game and hoping that as the country burns, a new socialist approach will rise like a phoenix.

Scandinavia is too right wing for Rascal. :)

I don't believe it would have made a difference, I'm not a subscriber to the "Great Man Theory of History" which that alternative fork relies on, and which Boris is a great fan.

As Rudge said:

"How do I define history? It's just one fuckin' thing after another."

Starmer in that set off circumstances would have had the same effect as Steptoe and the Postman.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I would be willing to take a hit but maybe that's because I know it ain't happening:-) A lot of people do alright I suppose so I understand their resistance to what would be a gamble.

Getting people to think about others would be a good start.

People don’t have time for anything but work and family these days.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Scandinavia is too right wing for Rascal. :)

I don't believe it would have made a difference, I'm not a subscriber to the "Great Man Theory of History" which that alternative fork relies on, and which Boris is a great fan.

As Rudge said:

"How do I define history? It's just one fuckin' thing after another."

Starmer in that set off circumstances would have had the same effect as Steptoe and the Postman.

There will need to be a change in approach at some point. Automation is going to make a lot of lower paid jobs redundant.

Energy production needs to change to green, but companies aren’t putting their profits into new technology quick enough.

For huge change, we need a leader to take us on that journey. Hopefully they appear soon.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

There will need to be a change in approach at some point. Automation is going to make a lot of lower paid jobs redundant.

Energy production needs to change to green, but companies aren’t putting their profits into new technology quick enough.

For huge change, we need a leader to take us on that journey. Hopefully they appear soon.

True but how long have car washes been automated? Yet dodgy car washes employing immigrants still exist.

There is a positive way forward but there is also the race to the bottom alternative that seems more likely at the moment.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

True but how long have car washes been automated? Yet dodgy car washes employing immigrants still exist.

There is a positive way forward but there is also the race to the bottom alternative that seems more likely at the moment.

That’s true. That helps 5 people per square mile get a below minimum wage job.

Automated ones wrench your paintwork too!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

That’s true. That helps 5 people per square mile get a below minimum wage job.

I think you know the point I was making.

Paul Mason: Our economic problem isn’t robots, it’s low-wage car-washes

The entire economic system is geared to distributing the proceeds of globalisation upwards and its costs downwards

www.irishtimes.com

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I think you know the point I was making.

Paul Mason: Our economic problem isn’t robots, it’s low-wage car-washes

The entire economic system is geared to distributing the proceeds of globalisation upwards and its costs downwards

www.irishtimes.com

I did. Forgive my facetiousness.

How do you raise wages without inflation meaning people are even worse off?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I did. Forgive my facetiousness.

How do you raise wages without inflation meaning people are even worse off?

You aren't looking at it the right way.

It would mean wages increase as a share of profits.

If big business can't cream off the profits as easily because they have to give a bigger share to workers, there will be less incentive to push prices up.

Also, many people in precarious jobs already pay extortionate living costs for things like accommodation. Those costs need to go down and private businesses need to be forced to leave certain sectors of the economy. Rail, energy etc.

 

[Bigga]

He wasn’t very good at communicating what he wanted. Maybe because he was fending off all sorts of accusations like what you have done to me here.

If you want to affect real change, you need the oratory skills and charisma to take people with you. Corbyn didn’t have that.

There's a saying that one should never vote into power those that seek it.

Corbyn was shoved forward and didn't want the leadership in the beginning, which is why people saw him as 'terrible'.

He was, and is, a reluctant leader.

 

[Bigga]

There will need to be a change in approach at some point. Automation is going to make a lot of lower paid jobs redundant.

Energy production needs to change to green, but companies aren’t putting their profits into new technology quick enough.

For huge change, we need a leader to take us on that journey. Hopefully they appear soon.

We had one, but that faulty model didn't come with a tie, a big smile, a handshake with the other crossed fingers behind his back...