• manualoverride@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    More accurately it was “Starmer changes his pledges more than he changes his underwear” followed by:

    “That’s just not true”

    Followed by a lot of discussion pointing out that while he may have scaled back some aspects of his pledges, he has also gone to great lengths not to promise very much at all over the last 5 years because the Tories keep making it financially impossible to promise anything.

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      2 months ago

      Or just stealing Labour’s ideas when they do promise things!

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        2 months ago

        Or stealing enough to say, “we already did that!”whilst not changing anything for their donors, and giving them an excuse to cut taxes because of imaginary future savings.

        Imaging a government that works as hard for the 99% and the planet, as the Tories work for the 1%