No one is stealing my future. Despite your consistently repeated assertion that they are on a number of subject areas.Potter wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:57 amWhat's your benchmark of leftist? Is the Chair of the Committee, Baroness Taylor, lifelong Labour member, Labour minister under Callaghan, Kinnock and Blair, a leftist or a little bit anti-Tory?Asian Boss wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:06 am
I didn't spot anything.
https://committees.parliament.uk/commit ... -pandemic/
"The report finds that the range of new laws introduced to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic have not been subject to adequate parliamentary scrutiny, with Government guidance and ministerial statements often failing to set out the law clearly, misstating the law or laying claim to legal requirements that did not exist."
Maybe you can dismiss it as 'leftists'?
Let's have a look at her....a staunch left leader that was very much in favour of the Iraq war - you know that thing that wasn't properly scrutinised and caused the death and displacement of millions of innocent people? Votes against any inquiry into it (there's a surprise), votes against measures to prevent climate change, votes to increase tuition fees, when in government introduced more terrorism laws than any previous government...blah...blah.
You're a sucker for the politics of convenience.
[hushed tone] Listen, you didn't get it from me, but I have heard people say that Boris is really a lizard man and he invented covid to steal your future. Don't answer the door, they're coming to get you
Some interesting evidence presented here. Perhaps I am a victim of a polarised incoming social media feed. Perhaps.
Although best not get into the pointless prolier-than-thou debate. "It has taken a long time to absorb and understand it. It seems so contrary to everything we have always known about politics in Britain that it requires a big adjustment of our world view. The link between class and voting has been reversed. People are now more likely to vote Tory if they are working class than if they are middle class – and the other way round for Labour.
"In the 2019 election, which Boris Johnson won by a margin of 12 percentage points, the Conservatives had a 15-point lead among the poorest fifth of the electorate, while among the richest fifth their lead was only 9 points. This was a reversal of the position in the 2017 election just two years earlier, when Labour was just ahead of the Tories among low-income voters (by 1 point), while the Tories were 8 points ahead among high-income voters.
"These figures are from the British Election Study, the biggest academic survey of voting behaviour. In an analysis by Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the authors comment: “These changes mean that, at least in terms of electoral politics, the Conservatives can no longer be described as the party of the well-off, while Labour is no longer the party of those on low incomes. The Conservatives are now more popular among those on low incomes than they are among those on high incomes.
"Labour is now just as popular among the very wealthy as it is among those on low incomes. Both parties have thus seen major changes in their traditional support base. This reflects how some of the founding rules of British politics have been overturned. It also points to a more general realignment of British politics, with low-income voters increasingly drifting into a new political home in response to a specific set of concerns – most clearly articulated around the issue of Brexit, though not necessarily confined to it.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/independe ... ml?r=67246
