JohnMcGreal wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:49 am
If you think a Tory Brexit, which puts a border right through the middle of the United Kingdom, and rips up all existing trade ties with our largest and closest trading partner, is a better economic choice than a Labour plan to raise taxes a bit to adequately fund public services, then you've lost the plot.
You cannot credibly argue that Corbyn's Labour are a threat to the economy and at the same time be willing (or even hoping) to leave the EU, potentially with no deal in 12 months time. It's an incoherent and ridiculous argument to make.
Its only incoherent to the blinkered.
The economy has supposed to be dying since we voted Leave, yet 3 years on, despute the shenanigans of Parliament, the economy is bearing up as well, if not better than any in Europe.
The maths as usual with this Labour party just dont add up. The cost of their plans, far outweighs what they can bring in, even bleeding the rich dry. Even bleeding the ordinary man in the street. What follows is businesses closing, and job losses. Greater immigration. Less money coming in, more being paid out. It would be a disaster.
Just the one example.
Labour claim they can renationalise utilities at paper cost. Their real worth is probably 4 times as much. They are lying if they think they can get the urities to just give their products away, and it would end in court, where the Labour party would lose. How many pensions have shares built into the utilities. What happens to peoples pensions if Labour try and steal companies back into public ownership.
It doesn't matter what you promise, it's what you can deliver that counts. Labours promises are undeliverable, as well as a potential economic disaster.