Meet Britain's New Cabinet Of Fakers, Fraudsters And Hangers-On

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Burnham is an out-and-proud socialist who had already signaled that his government would spend and tax more.
62% : And look how border security improved.
55% : The new justice secretary is Alex Norris, who spent a year as minister for border security.
54% : Like Burnham, many hark back to a mythical golden age of socialism in the 1970s.
51% : even though she was the minister administering the tax.
50% : Remember that Starmer increased spending on welfare and benefits, after backbenchers rejected his proposal to cut them.
50% : By Tuesday, his administration revealed plans to cut VAT (a sales tax) on electricity, to be funded by cutting the Starmer administration's planned digital ID.
48% : The backbenches are full of untested socialists who think closer to Burnham on public ownership.
45% : In any case, scrapping VAT on electricity doesn't make much difference to a household electricity bill in which most of the pricing goes to fund green initiatives, debt, stealth taxes, and administration.
45% : Stephen is the exemplar to end with - the exemplar of the terminal mess the Labour Party has got itself into: * inherited glory within a party that rails against privilege; * failed politicians lauded as greats; * doubling down on an unadmitted socialism that has already been rejected by the public multiple times, across nearly half a century; * the appointment of professional politicians to roles for which they have few non-political qualifications; * the promotion of ministers based on political ideologies and loyalties rather than functional merits; and * the retention of incumbents for short-term political purposes, to the neglect of long-term stability.
42% : She tars normative Britons as racists (whites and Jews in particular: isn't that racist?), campaigned against Israel, played up her status as the first Muslim home secretary, promised that her promotion would serve "her" community, and railed against supposedly routine experiences of racism in her hometown of Birmingham, where her demographic is the largest.
42% : And since Burnham is committed to the so-called triple lock on pensions and to increasing welfare (he talks about social care as the neglected component, but he's not talking about cutting anything), McFadden has no obvious options except to increase spending.
42% : Angela Rayner is back as housing, communities, and local government secretary, having resigned from the same role when she failed to pay a tax ("stamp duty") on her third house.
41% : He will need to cut other departments or raise taxes (probably both).
36% : He had quit as defense secretary six weeks ago, over Starmer's procrastination on filling a hole in defense spending.

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