Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 2nd book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club. Links: https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Richard James Foster
Loading...
The key point here is that the purported logic of Labour’s ‘tough’ approach to immigration - that once the numbers are down, Farage’s appeal will dissipate - is utter bollocks.
As we knew.
The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.
By a quick bag of the fag packet calculation, the U.K. currently spends about *128.57 times more* **per annum** on the areas Jeremy says needs more funding than the increase in defence spending John Healey wanted (not - by the way - the increase he was offered, which was about half that).
