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Blair wants to leave our future to the markets. I believe democracy can still shape our lives for the better | Wes Streeting (www.theguardian.com)

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I'm never going to vote for this guy because of his transphobia, but there's a lot to agree with here:

People are told Britain is succeeding while they cannot afford a home, and that opportunity exists even though their children face lower living standards than their parents enjoyed. They are told to work harder while wealth accumulates ever-more narrowly at the top. And they notice the unfairness.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

Streeting trying to pretend he's not a Blairite. How cute.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago

I don't trust anything out of this snake's mouth. He wants the left vote, but if he gets into power, he'll go right back to red Tory.

[–] TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're a Tory

You're a Tory in disguise...

You're a Tory in disguise.

Sung to the tune of just about any football club song.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

They are told to work harder while wealth accumulates ever-more narrowly at the top.

And I'm sure that handing big NHS contracts to American companies owned by billionaires doesn't contribute to that in any way.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

You can really tell when a Labour politician is addressing party members. Like this is fairly good, the exact stuff you'd expect to hear from a social democrat. No chance he gets into Number 10 and continues saying half of this stuff, let alone acts on it.

Except the AI stuff. He's wrong about that, but he'll give it his full backing. The SW1 class has already capitulated to 'AI', so this shouldn't be surprising.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I actually thought this was a satire article. My second thought was is this the Streeting/Blair good cop bad cop act but so of them are so far up their own backsides they would argue over who gets to be bad cop.

Next he will be out cuddling an obligatory poor person (I actually think of that as the poor person who gets roped in) before streeting is quickly chauffeured home to scrub himself into oblivion.

I would really like to see these people have to spend a week helping and sleeping in homeless shelters....but the homeless have enough bad luck

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Blairs charity is funded by a republican doner.

He is basically possessed by the US right wing.

Wow what a suprise. The second labour looks like, the billionaires may lose the tiniest smidge of control. Blair is out their pushing their claimed ideals.

Their is a reason. Thatcher was so proud of creating him.