Cost of living crisis
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“Tax cuts for the rich and belt tightening for the poor, we say #EnoughIsEnough!”
Eddie Dempsey of @RMTunion addressing our King’s Cross rally.
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— Enough is Enough (@eiecampaign) October 1, 2022
Looks as if I should have gone to Kings Cross. It seems that Enough is Enough rather than Don’t Pay has won the franchise to organise these protests. Predictable, I suppose, as the unions are bigger and have more experience at organising these things than community activists.
I think our problem is how to counter the swing to Labour in the belief that they have the magic remedy for our problems.
Starmer by default has become the alternative prime minister even for his critics like Lynch and Graham. He is the lesser evil.
The Labour Party conference from my understanding reinforced his position and from my survey of the media, his leadership is unchallenged.
Can we actually pin him down to definite economic policies that we can expose as flawed and fated to fail?
We do need to say that global events and the market do determine economics but the danger is we parrot Truss who is using the same excuse. We have to differentiate our reasoning and to make it clear Labour’s answer is not going to succeed.
Kuenssberg points out that if the predicted cost of funding the two-year energy freeze is around £120bn, the windfall tax is predicted to only raise £8bn.
“We haven’t got any numbers from the government,” says Reeves. “But we think we can raise tens of billions from the windfall tax.”
I’ve not been following this thread. Can I have, in a nutshell please, an SPGB analysis of why our bills are increasing, given that the UK doesn’t depend on Russian gas?
But it does depend on gas (mainly to burn to generate electricity) and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the retaliation by the Western bloc and Russia counter-retaliation have raised the international price of gas wherever you buy it from.
“Why are the French not having to pay exorbitantly?”
Because the state has subsidised the difference.
“Why are the French not having to pay exorbitantly?”
Reply given here (#232606) a month ago:
The cost of living is getting so high that in Argentina peoples are becoming vegetarian due to the high cost of beef, chicken and pork, and Argentina is a large producer of beef and porks.
A friend sent me a message that she is only drinking water for dinner instead of wine because the price of wine is getting too expensive and they produce a lot of wine too
https://www.pigprogress.net/world-of-pigs/country-focus/argentina-destined-to-become-a-major-pig-exporter/ Argentina destined to become a major pig exporter
Day of Action reports:
I would expect more and more people in this country to come to realise what Patrick Cockburn says in today’s i paper (and which many in other European countries already have):
“Liz Truss and her ministers keep saying that the worldwide cost of living crisis is the result of ‘Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine’. But it would be truer to say that the economic turmoil is the result of an ill-considered decision to wage economic war against Russia which was never likely to work”.
In other words, we are suffering a cost of living crisis because of the West’s deliberate policy. We are collateral damage in the struggle between the capitalist West and capitalist Russia over into whose sphere of influence Ukraine should fall. The government thinks that this pain is worth us suffering so they can achieve their aim. And we are expected to put up with it.
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