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It’s not a binary choice. What’s stopping a government addressing both? For example, there are 4 million people on UC that have never worked, it’s effectively UBI by the back door. Welfare dependency keeps people in a life of poverty. Likewise, the tax burden being the highest it’s ever been...

The critique was on the concept of a wealth tax. It promises to reduce ‘wealth inequality’ but in reality, even the most optimistic outcome barely touches public expenditure. The cost of migrant benefits and hotels totals around £13.5bn a year. Considering the total welfare bill is set to raise...

Understand that ‘the left’ is a catch-all phrase. In any case, @chiefdave has expressed admiration for Polanski and iirc, called his winning of the Green Party’s leadership before he was on my radar. So it’s fair to conclude that at the very least, he’s a centre-left. I’m sure he can speak for...

Where’s this come from?

Out of his arse.

Do you believe a wealth tax would raise that per year? Check in with France and Norway. Besides, that 2.1bn figure is a nonsense. The cost of hotels alone is 1.5bn a year (and rising) and foreign born nationals are claiming 1bn a month (and rising), with 27-37% of non-EU ILR holders on UC. At...

This will be interesting… how are Mussolini and Trump’s governments similar?

From that, it’s plain to see that you and others on this thread have no understanding of fascism outside of v vague labels. You compared Trump to Mussolini… Mussolini was a socialist before being expelled from the party for supporting Italian intervention in WW1. So how is Trump like Mussolini...

Completely missed the point. There’s a lot to admire about FDR but he was accused of being fascist, to socialist/communist. But of note, in the section, that in the 1930s there were those that viewed fascism as a ‘third way’ between communism and capitalism. This is certainly how fascists...

Brush up on your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Yes. Would you prefer it if everyone to the left of Tony Blair was called ‘communist’ or ‘Stalinist?’ … Or constant euphemisms to ‘1930s Russia’ whenever Zach Polansk mentions a wealth tax…

Apparently there wasn’t any according to the lady at ticket office I spoke to.

Right, so because asylum applicants can’t be 0, weeks have to put up with tens of thousands per year? It is this logic that demonstrates why immigration policy has got completely out of control. Operationally, the Royal Navy think they can stop the boats and implement an Australia style policy...

As @PVA shared earlier, the true definition of fascism is now, as Orwell called it back in 1946 ‘something not desirable’. When you have UK parliamentarians are calling Shabana Mahmood’s policies ‘fascist’, its meaning has long since been debased.

Ironically, most of this applies to socialism too...