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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 15h

Rarely hear any Lab people on media but for Tories having won 2010,2015,2017,2019 always use to flood media. And Lab face hostile BBC,hate Mail,Depress,Murdoch's Times,Sun,Sunday Times, & far right Telegraph.

Lab need to hire some creatives, advertisers,good PR ppl & get Media is now everything!

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 15h

Labour far too soft with Farage & his Brexit legacy.
Failed to associate his policies with Tory neo liberal decline, with the neo Fascist in US, & no chance high UK inequality will erode with Reform. Look at Carney, tough leader whose denounced Trump. Keir's has too humble approach to the RW media

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 18h

Note, that max £40K per couple saved on ISAs can be every year & dividends & growth is tax free. Mean while the cleaner is paying 20% tax on her wages.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry that's 'pension contributions' high incomed get back whopping 45% while low incomed only get just 20%.

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 19h

That will help a little but to get things moving we will need other tax changes too such as higher council taxes on top property or higher tax on unearned income.
Get's me how rich couples can put 40k away on ISA shares (untaxed) or highest paid get 40% to 45% tax relief on tax contributions.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 21h

'They' being Tory spinners, wealthy public school boys scared of EU social democracy, spouting polemic & nonsence. That's how the looney fringe got Brexit. The Mail & Sun got it for them. BBC a revolving door for Brexiteers who put UK isolated & poor from 500M prosperous S.M. from Norway to Spain

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely Tony,GB, PeterM ,Alastair Campbell took onTory public school boys,their media with expertise,strategy & guts.Murdoch media now moved Right Wing like Mail,Telegraph,our funded BBC. This lot have 401 MPs, they fled up M6 this summer,as Farage ran BBC.
During 14 Tory yrs they flooded media

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

Keir is too humble to London public school elites,their wealth,their media & retreats from being a radical
McSweeney & Keir's advisers have turned into a technocratic process, no ideology,no narrative,unable to grasp that Brits wtd a ******* change after 14 Tory yrs. Change just screams out for Lab!

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

I think you're correct. To be fair they face a nasty media. The far right Daily Mail attack Lab everyday, ignore the good things. The broadcasters pick up the right wing agenda & ignore the reforms. BBC is a Farage love in, was during Brexit vote. So this Lab party lacks guts,has no media presence

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

So if you're living in one of the most unequal socities in Europe,20 yrs behind on female cancer survival compared to Sweden,Norway, Denmark,more child poverty,elderly after Tory 14 yrs live less longer,highest Uni fees in the West,poor communities far from rich SE.Lets keep UK well behind EU on tax

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

And yes they're not reaching out to working class away from the M25 'magic money roundabout'.They lack the historic Labour struggle of making life less hard for those in the regions.They obsess on stuff that doesn't impact those less paid in this 2nd most unequal society in Europe.Too London centric

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 22h

Well they're delivering somethings like faster appts at hospital, healthcare funding,increased wages for teachers, nurses,police etc, more spending on infrastructure,schools,homes,green tech, community services. But they can't communicate, they are media shy, lack big hitters,too humble,no narrative

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Just look at expansion of the Triangle - Oxford Milton Keynes Cambridge. And Manchaster's economic growth from many Univs situated there. Money & Jobs follows good grads, innovation & good infrastructure.

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

How come? Encouraging foreign investment which we lost a lot after Brexit Bonkers Tories, is fine if it bring jobs. Just look at Ireland, booming Dublin etc., But its synergy like Hong Kongers, Indian grads, u
UK grads helping bioscience, high tech, AI,green technology & merging with our top Unis

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely.Every single day,the Daily Mail & Daily Depress have viscious anti-Lab big headlines which displays on TV, supermarkets & feeds into BBC,Sky,LBC, GBeebies news narrative. But sadly 401 Lab MPs led by McSweeney learn nothing from Carney, Trump,Sturgeon, Farage:Attack your vile anti media!

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

OK,I can't resist one more point & I believe it's coming from right-wing media,which daily, deliberately,reduces Lab to Keir Starmer - 1 leader easy to demonise but actually Labour Movement in power is 400 more MPs + Co-op+ Trade Unions + membership/activists. So give it to May: ask King of North.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I can't believe BBC allowed to be so Neo Fascist Reform given there only 0.06% of MPs compared to 82% of MPs representing progressive MPs.
Time some of those like 401 Lab ones stopped hiding away in school yard & Mr McSweeney needs to let them swamp media like Tories did for 14 yrs.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Moreover Scotland the heart of progressivism saw Gordon Brown New Lab win most MPs there even in 2010. So after 4 elections Tories still could not win & joined with Cleggy boy.

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

I will no longer debate with you.You're being abusive.This is BlueSky not X. I have Master degrees in Modern History & Sociology & I lived thru Thatcherism & New Lab so I know what a great change it was.
P.S.The 2nd New Lab Tony Blair govt also a landslide & more Tory seats went Lab I recall.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

I can't accept that as he was a 'NeoLiberal' in the Right Wing or US sense of low taxes & weak public services. Indeed, all our services improved,wages went up,universities, biosciences, tech,economy was higher too. Night time economy too. Yes league tables for ppl to judge schools & hospitals OK

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I guess I exaggerated. I have experienced decades of Tory hegemony. Clearly, we should catch up with just about every country in Europe & have FPTP. But our media like Mail,Sun will viciously oppose it, stop & use its power to discredit PR because the media owners don't want UK to be modern.

Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

And remember with FPTP you can't win power, oppose the right wing or change UK for better if you're some small 'performative' powerless Far Left party. Only Lab Movement can do that so get their 401 MPs from across UK moving & stop them hiding in school yard from Reform etc. Andy Burnham best bet!

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Read your history: its all there.New Labour 3 times a winner & in Scotland 4 times. A country at ease with itself after 18 Tory Thacherite years. New Labour appealing to all areas, age groups,classes & delivering for a country & being what Labour should be:better economy, opportunity & life chances.

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the last 75 yrs or so from NHS,to free GPs to Welfare,public housing,to high schools&6th forms & Unis for all not just elites,to minimum & living wages,job
rights,union representation,H&S, Equality, Diversity,Human Rights,devolution for Wales & Scotland, Peace in Ireland:The LABOUR movement

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Peter Leslie @notthehatemail.bsky.social · 1d

Is that the Tony Blair who across UK won 3 elections! with Gordon improved working class wages, benefits,child tax credits,pensions,literacy,6th form & increased university places, gave us more Nurses,GPs,quicker cancer checks,more grad teachers,free eye tests & bus passes, reduced tax on heating..

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