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Posted by: Steven Rose
Date/Time: 08/05/26 19:08:00

The relative success of the Greens in yesterday’s election bears witness to the number of left wing dreamers (to use no harsher term) in this country.

Consider their manifesto policies:

Business - 4 day week, maximum 10:1 ratio between highest and lowest paid, rise in minimum wage to £15 per hour

NHS- increase spending by 15% or £30 billion, give doctors 35% pay rise

Education - abolish tuition fees (estimated cost £10 billion per cohort)

Immigration - provide safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, provide successful claimants with accommodation

Drugs - decriminalise possession of all drugs

Utilities - renationalise all the big five utilities, starting with water (estimated cost of water renationalisation £100 billion)

Housing - build 150 000 houses per year, bring in rent control, spend £50 billion on insulating housing stock

Environment - stop oil exploration, give £1.5 billion to developing world to promote green energy

Justice - spend £2.5 billion to fix court delays

Defence - abolish nuclear deterrent

Europe - rejoin Customs Union, bring in freedom of movement, eventually rejoin the EU

Voting - give vote to migrants with right to remain

Devolution - offer referendums to Wales and Scotland

Taxation - tax rises for those earning above £50k pa, wealth tax of 1% per year on assets above £10 million, 2% above £1 billion.

Leaving aside issues such as setting aside a democratic referendum to rejoin Europe, or the danger of the break-up of the UK, or the disastrous  implications of mass migration, or consequences of decriminalising hard drugs,  do those who vote Green really believe that the party’s spending commitments can be financed by taxing the middle classes and the rich? I don’t think they care. They just want a load of free stuff and assume that others should pay.



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Polanski speaks07/05/26 15:49:00 Lucille Grant
   Re:Polanski speaks07/05/26 16:06:00 Ivonne Holliday
      Re:Re:Polanski speaks07/05/26 16:43:00 Michael Brigo
         Reply07/05/26 16:54:00 Michael Ixer
         Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks07/05/26 17:05:00 Sue Hammond
         Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 13:18:00 John Hawkes
      Re:Re:Polanski speaks07/05/26 16:56:00 Lucille Grant
         Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 08:54:00 Steven Rose
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 11:37:00 Michael Brigo
               Reply08/05/26 11:45:00 Michael Ixer
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 11:59:00 Sue Hammond
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks nonsense08/05/26 12:02:00 Andy Pike
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks nonsense08/05/26 12:26:00 Michael Brigo
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks nonsense08/05/26 12:29:00 Lucille Grant
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks nonsense08/05/26 12:50:00 Michael Brigo
                        Reply08/05/26 12:34:00 Sue Hammond
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks nonsense08/05/26 13:21:00 John Hawkes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 13:29:00 John Hawkes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 15:13:00 Ivonne Holliday
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 17:18:00 Elizabeth Balsom
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Polanski speaks08/05/26 19:11:00 Ivonne Holliday
   Reply08/05/26 12:32:00 Michael Ixer
      Re:Reply08/05/26 12:54:00 Sue Hammond
         Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 13:11:00 Andy Pike
            Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 13:14:00 Jonathan Callaway
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 14:08:00 Philippa Bond
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 14:10:00 John Hawkes
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 14:12:00 John Hawkes
                        Reply08/05/26 14:37:00 Sue Hammond
                           Re:Reply08/05/26 19:08:00 Steven Rose
                              Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 21:17:00 Sue Hammond
                              Reply09/05/26 00:08:00 Michael Ixer
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply08/05/26 22:45:00 Philippa Bond
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply09/05/26 00:45:00 Steven Rose
                              Reply09/05/26 01:28:00 Michael Ixer
                     Reply09/05/26 01:37:00 Michael Ixer
                        Re:Reply09/05/26 09:54:00 Steven Rose
                           Reply09/05/26 10:28:00 Sue Hammond
                           Reply09/05/26 10:44:00 Michael Ixer
                              Re:Reply09/05/26 12:01:00 Steven Rose
                                 Reply09/05/26 12:14:00 Michael Ixer
                                    Re:Reply10/05/26 15:00:00 John Hawkes
                                       Reply10/05/26 15:06:00 Michael Ixer

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