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Needs reform first. Wes Streeting has described the NHS as a leaky bucket. https://www.ft.com/content/b74c92c3-d1e4-4ff5-8e50-4dec23be74c4

Crikey. Is it really that easy? Why don't the government go the whole hog and just print tonnes of money and give everyone in the country some of it. £10m each would do it. We could all have everything we wanted and everyone would be happy. What could possibly go wrong? I cannot believe that...

Then what they are doing is not a universal basic income.

Everyone would get it.

How did the trial go? Did every low paid worker leave or did they carry on to supplement their income?

Peter Tatchell says a 1% wealth tax on this country's billionaires would raise the £6bn a year required for the green fund. If that's true, why doesn't Starmer do that? As Tatchell pointed out, they will hardly notice as their wealth is going up by much more than that every year anyway.

Yes they mentioned that too re the Poles and also that the kids coming out of these courses don't work fast enough. Seems an appetite for it though based on a straw poll in the local Spar ( :laugh: ) by my wife who works there and serves the 4 brickies building across the road - 1 experienced...

And ended with brickies phoning in saying that there aren't anything like enough of them around to build 300,000 houses a year.

He was from People Demand Democracy so, no not likely.

62.1% of the electorate couldn't be bothered to vote. I wouldn't get too carried away just yet.

Surely the key issues he has to address are inequality, climate crisis, energy security, food security, NHS reform, social care and AI. That's just for starters. All I have heard so far is that they will "grow the economy". All I hear and read is that this country is in crisis, he has said it...

I'm looking forward to him going on TV and saying something interesting instead of the usual political guff and question avoiding. The labour MP on Politics Live yesterday, Darren Jones, explained their stance on public spending far better than SKS did and indeed spoke very well on all the other...