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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • First point, Long Covid can cause mental health issues including anxiety and depression.

    Secondly, there is money. The tax burden on the richest has dropped massively since the 50s and their effective tax rate is a lot lower. We could reverse that, but Starmer is a red Tory so wouldn’t consider it.

    You never hear a government say "can we really afford these fighter jets or nuclear subs? Do they say there is no money left?Nope. They print money. To quote Tony Benn, if you can afford to kill people, you can afford to help people.

    Finally, the NHS functioned well before the Tories took over. One of the most effective and cost efficient health systems in the world but as demand has increased due to an aging population the money available has frozen for it. We wasted a lot of money on covid for Tory business friends. Mismanagement doesn’t mean something doesn’t work.

    Apologies on the Murdoch dig. Couldn’t resist it as it amused me. In reality, he’s spent a lot of money to persuade people to think just like you, so he would be proud. I can imagine that isn’t a nice thing.

    In the post war years, Clement Atlee’s Labour spent massively with a higher debt to GDP and debt to GDP came down. Building homes and founding the NHS. It isn’t just the USA that can print money. I appreciate without this historical context and the media brainwashing that something with empirical evidence can seem impossible.


  • And that costs money to train and help people. It doesn’t help that the country let covid run rampant across it, many got long covid and cannot work and the solution is to cut off their income rather than invest in science and treatment and help people get to a state where they can work.

    Remember, the upturn in benefits came post covid and the budget tripling is a prediction based on them having no idea why it’s increasing and trying to graph a pattern. It won’t triple, that’s guess work. But they can use guess work to pull the wool over people’s eyes.

    You’re an Aussie, why are you talking about UK tax. Are you Rupert Murdoch?!










  • I agree on the point about being clueless.

    You can invest in a technology and be safe. Take nuclear power for example. It’s just the risks are more obvious because of the past.

    If you look at Vance, they’re clearly driving this objection, and wanted us to demonstrate they are not the only ones. China is winning in AI and they were willing to sign. You can have technology and safeguards/ethics.










  • So the money either goes to trusts or private. If £8bn goes to private, it comes out of trust budgets which means they cannot hire as many doctors or nurses. Without extra funding, things will not go faster as NHS will get slower. It’s diverting funds. It’s privatisation. If they want it faster, they need to find extra funding.

    They’ve made it quite clear they won’t. Hence Streeting keeps talking about not throwing money at it and bashing on about reform. It’s a euphemism for privatisation.

    Labour didn’t win this election without funding. We just find out who funded them and what they may have promised back (using tax payers money).