UK Politics

What short memories people have. The incoming Labour government proposed the most radical wealth redistribution measures this century to address poverty and the whole country had a shit fit.

Meanwhile they were also discovering that the Tory governments had lied about borrowing and spending.

...so most of their first year in government was taken up with trying to work out where the Tories had actually been spending our money and re-writing their plans on how to actually improve things.

Since then they have done a lot of things that in theory should alleviate poverty (free school meals, raised taxes on higher earners, increased NHS pay, raised minimum wage, massive infrastructure investment, new investment and laws to make adoption of renewable energy easier, renters reform, removal of inheritance tax breaks for wealthy landowners, that's just off the top of my head) but will take time to actually show a change. Statistics are released yearly about 6 months in arrears so we won't know whether this worked until late 2027.

Then we have been cut-off from one of our major energy supplies by an out of control superpower, not something you can really blame our government for but when people see prices going up they want someone to blame.

Edit to add that clamping down on parasitic organisations like Uber, Amazon, Starbucks needs to be a priority and is an easy and obvious win and it is annoying they haven't.

Getting rid of FPTP would be a help. Governments are getting elected on ever smaller shares of the actual vote. Labour only got 34% of the vote at the election. Governing was always going to be hard, and the huge gap between the parliamentary majority and the reality of the public is not helping.

Title feels like an onion headline

Fixing literally anything could tbh.

But they're always breaking more than they're fixing.

Don't get crazy here, this itty bitty bit of instability could never justify taking rich people's hard earned money! ^/s^

Hmm while saving the poor is a great idea, I'm not so fond on saving the jobs of politicians.

Doing what their votes want instead of what reform voters want is the only thing they need to do.

How exactly is someone meant to solve poverty in 20 months?

There is no silver bullet, and redistribution of wealth takes a long time, even if you go full armed revolution.

Progress is being made, albeit slowly, wages are growing faster than inflation, school kids are getting free meals, 3rd+ kids aren't being punished for simply existing.

There is a lot more to do, but suggesting nothing has been done is pure fiction.

The problem is those are minor steps of appeasement and they are reactionary to unease.

It should not have gotten that far. And unfortunately voting and democracy has been hijacked by the rich who have no intent of playing fair.

The politicians did not care on the way down and can’t be trusted. We voted and played fair. The average man contributed, worked hard and went along with the rules and still get taken advantage of.

It’s been shown political parties cannot act In the interests of the commons. They can be bought and manipulated.

They had the chance to not have poors. They abused it. Short term we can keep cycling through parties with further appeasement but the system is broke. We all know. And we all know they won’t give it up and redo the system until they fear the mass

There are more of us. They can hide behind tech and policy but there are more of us and we are not powerless.

• Use your voice to organise in your communities.

Use your wallet to punish those who continually take and disrespect from you.

Use your force to demand fair treatment
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Remember you dont need to use violence…however the message that anti-violence is not working can be powerful tool.