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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 6h

is struggling with extremist right-wing politics that have historically tapped in to 'othering' & mendaciously blaming migrants for the ineptitudes & ideologies of political figures. The likes of Farage have been given near gratis to use these tactics & Lam is leaning into them to make political hay

Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 6h

longer be bound by our legal statutes then we no longer have any measure of democratic representation: that would be autocracy in action. Tipped as a potential Tory leader, she could be a senior member of a possible Reform/Tory coalition govt come '29. The UK like many other countries at the moment

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 6h

crux of the matter. Lam does not get to define what is 'culturally coherent' for the UK. Nor does she get to cherry-pick when or if our legal statutes apply. Our laws are meant to be universal (applying equally to everyone) so should a senior politician & potential party leader deem themselves to no

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 6h

She is a hypocrite for that reason & more.

Lam has specifically called for deporting legal, settled immigrants: you've not mentioned this. This is what has invoked so much negative reaction. She cites her reason for doing this as wanting to make the UK 'culturally coherent'. And this is the real

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 7h

RR continues to ramble on claiming that central govt is unable to afford funding for public services while spouting the fantasy nonsense of taxing to spend. Ministerial competency appears to have flat-lined.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 7h

Studying economics would be enormously helpful as then voters would be far less likely to fall for the fantasy economics peddled by politicians & mass media. Last figure I read about macro economic literacy estimated that only around 7% of the population actually understands how our economy works.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 18h

There's a healthy majority of people wanting the UK to rejoin - the current govt can do this & a majority of the electorate would appreciate it. For a party with support in free-fall Labour's leadership are displaying precious little instinct for survival, let alone working for the country.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 18h

As the granddaughter of a Dutch immigrant one would have hoped that Lam (presumably a beneficiary of this immigration) would have held a more generous view of immigration.

Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 18h

Again you're indulging in logical fallacies: at no point did I specifically say that Lam should consider the interests of immigrants before everything else & nor did I imply it. The same goes for where your loyalties lie: I did not mention them in any way - only you did. These are strawman arguments

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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 22h

The UK government has its own bank and sovereign currency. It doesn't need to borrow any money. It can create as much as it needs.

#LearnMMT FFS!

Reeves has mountain to climb in budget after borrowing rise

Public finances figures contain no shocks but will underline need for either hefty tax rises or spending cuts

www.theguardian.com

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 19h

The fella that played a major role in flat-lining our economy is going to write a column in the ST on economics? Huh.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 21h

LP in full-blown panic as they plummet in the polls yet unable to join up those tricky dots between their failing public support & their awful policies coupled with their mendacious behaviour.

The LINOs will never be able to accept just how badly wrong they have misjudged policies & public mood.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 21h

She absolutely is a hypocrite because she is the product of immigration - but that was not the argument you posted in your initial response which was to claim, "You make it sound as if immigrants' first loyalty must be to other immigrants ". That is a motte & bailey logical fallacy.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Reeves says she needs to raise taxes to “balance the books.” But that’s not how government finance works. In this video, I explain why the government’s job is to sustain spending power, not drain it.

youtu.be/iUxvARzRi8U?...

Why most tax rises now would be economic madness

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow Thames Water goes bankrupt or Ofwat lets them raise their bills EVEN more.

Which do you think it will be?

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

There will be a lot of nonsense talked about government borrowing today www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

There will be a lot of nonsense talked about government borrowing today

The Guardian published this at 7.20 this morning: Newsflash: UK government borrowing has hit its highest level since the Covid-19 pandemic in the first half of this tax year, eating into chancellor R...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 1d

What I found most disappointing is how they fell so quickly into the pattern of the last government.

Endless vacuous announcements, meaningless £x million pots scattered here and there and re-announcements are a self-soothing exercise. They impress only idiots and nothing is getting done.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

The very real condition of government announcement-itis in which repeated claims of new investments, simplified regulations, public funds, and various other initiatives cumulatively don't actually add up to very much at all.

www.ft.com/content/cffa...

Reeves launches ‘blitz’ on red tape in bid to save £6bn a year for UK business

Chancellor aims to scrap ‘pointless paperwork’ and will also pledge to make M&A rules more transparent

www.ft.com

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

Liz Truss: the Baldrick of macro economics.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Going to be doing a lot of told-you-so in the immediate future.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

Then you've misunderstand the post Ruslan: Lam is both deeply cynical & hypocritcal to make her repellent remarks.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

Tory hypocrisy from the granddaughter of a Dutch immigrant.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

You need to check what ED & LDs are up to: originally against digital ID now quietly dropped, softened stance on rejoining EU etc. 'Centrism' has not only failed it has led us to this place & now threatens to usher-in Reform & fascism. Sad expressions with unabated neoliberalism does not earn votes.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

Nandy's hypocrisy remains her strongest defining characteristic and entirely unsurprising as one of the most prominent & long-standing members of the Blue Labour group.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

I've been out to DC quite a bit over the years & learned at least some of the fascinating history of that building. Speaking as an athiest, Trump is going to hell.

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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 1d

That is utterly obscene.