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Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 6 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Maybe things can't only get better for Keir Starmer, as he is shamed with the latest polling just as the Labour conference begins

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Have they, though?

nationalising trains
nationalising steel
nationalising a part of our energy sector
bringing the NHS back under direct public control
ending various tax-dodging loopholes, such as the IHT for farmers
windfall tax on energy companies
charging VAT on private schooling
expanding free childcare
restarting SureStart (albeit under a different name)
expanding free school meals
expanding school breakfast clubs
guaranteeing jobs for young people (announced this morning)
big increases to the minimum wage, especially for the youngest
expansion of workers rights
expansion of renters rights
big increase in infrastructure investment, particularly for renewables

OSA, fair enough. I'm sure plenty of young people especially aren't happy about that. But overall, how are they actively working against people they're supposed to be helping?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The trains were nationalised by the Tory government in 2020, and they also abolished franchising later that year. They also began to set up Great British Railways in 2021. All that’s happening now is the contracts are being withdrawn as they reach their break points.

Steel has not been nationalised. The government has taken over the funding of redundancy payments and retraining for the shut down private sector Tata furnaces in Port Talbot, and has taken steps to force the owners of British Steel to keep the idle furnaces in Scunthorpe burning.

There has also been no nationalisation in the energy sector. Great British Energy is set up as a way to subsidise projects created and run by the private sector and other public bodies. It will not generate, distribute or retail energy.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

You need to look up the differences between the Tory rail model and Labour's. It's not the same.

Steel has not been nationalised. The government has taken over the funding of redundancy payments and retraining for the shut down private sector Tata furnaces in Port Talbot, and has taken steps to force the owners of British Steel to keep the idle furnaces in Scunthorpe burning.

Which is a good short term move. They can't abruptly nationalise it by force immediately without causing a truss-like market panic. The ball is rolling.

There has also been no nationalisation in the energy sector.

Yes it is. GBE is public.

Great British Energy is set up as a way to subsidise projects created and run by the private sector and other public bodies.

That's part of the energy sector...

It will not generate, distribute or retail energy.

I never said it will...