Keir Starmer wants to increase wealth inequality https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/06/04/keir-starmer-wants-to-increase-wealth-inequality/ Keir Starmer has said the Labour Party's goal is to increase wealth, which, given the structure of the UK, means the wealth of the already wealthy. Is that really what a so-called Labour Party should really be all about? And what does it say about his economics?
@RichardJMurphy Yet again the Labour Party - which will always struggle against the corporatist controlled media - has been taken over by agents of...the corporatist media.
So who are the rest of us supposed to vote for now our party is in the hands of this disgusting rabble of #Tories? It has to be #Green for me.
A fantastic end to the day on the Achadas da Cruz Promenade. I took this photo using my favorite film photography setup 🥰 ~ Achadas da Cruz, Madeira, Portugal 🇵🇹
Gear:
• Yashica TL Electro X ITS (Japan, ~1971)
• Yashica Yashinon-DS 50 mm f/1.7
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36 (treated as ISO 200)
New research from UCL & the International Institute for Sustainable Development suggests that there are now enough sustainable/green energy projects running or in development that no new fossil fuel capacity is required.
As current fossil fuel capacity now degrades/reduces, so green energy capacity can take its place.
This is not how the fossil fuel firms see it, but as emissions keep rising (up 1.1% last year) this must become a crucial pivot point!
In other words, policy needs to be designed not to pick sectors or #technologies as “winners”, but to pick the willing by providing support that is conditional on companies moving in the right directions.
Been seeing a rising tide of vitriol over upcoming voting in the US and UK, and I really think it’s almost entirely rooted in whether you see your vote as an affirmative statement of your values, or as a pragmatic political choice. Both views are understandable (to me, anyway) but they can’t ever agree on where those views lead them, and it results in a lot of sniping condescension and outright disgust between ostensible allies. I guess that’s first-past-the-post for you.
Indeed, Eric. But certainly in the UK at last, we're seeing more "tactical voting" where folks will hold their nose and put an X next to the least odious option, in order to remove the most odious choice.
I'm not sure, and have no strong opinion, if this is good, bad, or indifferent. Vote with your conscience.
I vote #Green because it seems clear and obvious to me that the climate crisis is by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude the biggest problem we, as a species, have right now.
I’m looking forward to the day that either mass transit grows and/or self-driving electric cars evolve to the point that large metropolitan television and radio stations no longer need traffic reporters.
At least I hope that’s the reason, and not some massive plague.
I spend way more time photographing sea slugs, but this time I took the camera to the garden to find some land slugs. I really like the shine off the slimy coating. Not sure this one will be a big seller, but prints are available 😄