"...It’s partly a performance, the same iron chancellor routine adopted by Gordon Brown in 1997, when he broke Labour hearts on single-parent benefits and stuck to his promise to stay within Tory spending limits for two years" "
He's referring to the despicable Blair's babes thing whose first vote was on policy designed to further impoverish single mothers so I suppose it fits a ritual pattern of "performative" politics which right wing Labour feels a need to act out on stage.
- When you enter the halls of power you must pick a weak victim and sacrifice them to prove to the God of Capitalism that you are a true and ruthless believer.
I can't stomach Freedland, he is awful on just about everything. Winter fuel payments and allowing parents to claim universal credit or child tax credit for a third child is "wild spending"?. Must keep the Bank of England and "the markets" happy, eh? Meanwhile keep sending the millionaire grifter, Zelensky, billions.
quote: But spending is also part of the equation. That’s where the two-child and winter fuel decisions come in. Reeves is signalling, to the Bank of England but also to the markets, that she is not going to be profligate, that she will not be the Labour chancellor of caricature, bullied by her party’s left into wild spending.
on September 14, 2024, 5:09 am