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How has he screwed the poor?
Is any of that screwing the poor?
I didn't realise that when you're a certain gender or past a certain age the law should no longer apply?
Huh? He banned weapons exports to Israel, publicly condemned Israel for war crimes, sanctioned a bunch of members of their parliament, ramped up aid for Palestine, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever steps foot on British soil, resisted joining the US and Israel with their attacks in Iran, and has recognised Palestine.
He can't do much more than that. Would you like him to invade Israel? I don't think that's realistic.
How is he making things worse?
E: sure, just downvote when you see some inconvenient facts. You clearly hate all of the bullet points I've just outlined, in which case I'm not sure why you ever supported Labour in the first place. They've been a centre-left party for half a century now.
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 All that’s happening now is the contracts are being withdrawn as they reach their break points.Steel has not been nationalised.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.
And still has contracts for the Israeli military to train British troops, and still criminalises the expression of support for Palestinian rights. At best, we're seeing some mixed messaging here.
Sure, because there's no difference between Labour under Michael Foot or Corbyn and Labour under Blair or Starmer. /s
FFS, why are you lying? Supporting Palestine is not illegal. The government supports Palestine. Stop the lies.
The only thing that's illegal is supporting a proscribed violent group.
Obviously they're different under every leader. They're still centre left and I just proved it to you. You being too stupid to accept it doesn't change reality. Go look at my list again.
At least he's not a supporter of Putin like Corbyn, and could actually win an election unlike Corbyn.