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Keir Starmer: 'There will be no return to austerity under my government' | Big Issue (www.bigissue.com)

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Starmer responds to questions from the Big Issue journalists and from vendors. Nothing particularly groundbreaking here but it all sounds good.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A number of major forces (e.g longer lifespan and that Russian twat waging war) will continue to increase pressure on public finances like an ever tightening screw. Pretending that economic growth will solve the problem is wishful thinking, to put it mildly. Either one substantially cuts some publics service or increases taxes to a whole new level. Quite possibly both at the same time.

I’m deeply disappointed that the UK political parties wishing to have power seem only able to obfuscate things. “Let me be very clear, yadi-yadi-ya” - bullshit! It is tiring to hear only media optimised, content void word salad.

I’ve been a sceptical old git for quite some time, but perhaps I’ve still held a glimmer of optimism somewhere deep down. This election campaign has only pushed me deeper into cynicism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Increasing taxes is just taking a larger and larger slice of a shrinking pie. You have to make the pie bigger. We have to grow.

Austerity hurt us. Brexit hurt us. We need to repair those things and accelerate growth.