Kier Starmer kicked off the new year, with a rousing speech calling the masses to the barricades. Or something like that! Here are my notes. …
Here’s the speech in text, and here’s the speech in words/text and here’s a youtube version; I have cut out the four minutes of silence waiting for Rachel Reeves as the warm-up act …
I have not read it yet/ I don;t think I’ll be watching it I have better things to do with 50 mins.
Lord Prem Sekka says on public expenditure
Labour won't spend its way out of Tory 'mess', says Keir Starmer.
— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) January 5, 2023
Meaning what?
Real cuts to wages, pension, benefits; privatization of the NHS, no real increase in spending on schools,
Taxing capital gains at the same rates as earned income raised £25bn.https://t.co/XtQx9g7J0m
Twitter is cross on public sector funding/pay, using take back control as a slogan for empowering local authorities, for being weak on the abolition of tuition fees, and giving a nod to the further privatisation of public services.
I say,
Devolution/subsidiarity can’t work without a financial guarantee …
It reminds me,
The people’s flag is palest pink
It’s not the colour you might think
White collar workers stand and cheer
The Labour government is hereWe’ll change the country bit by bit
So nobody will notice it
And just to show that we’re sincere
We’ll sing The Red Flag once a yearThe cloth cap and the woolen scarf
Are images outdated
For we’re the party’s avant garde
And we are educatedSo raise the rolled umbrella high
The college scarf, the old school tie
And just to show that we’re sincere
We’ll sing The Red Flag once a year
Today, I got these words from everything2.com and not the Clause IV song book which is where I first heard/read/sang it.