Kurt Hackbarth
Colin Mooers
Salam Morcos
Follow our live coverage at the Progressive Army as results come in for the United Kingdom general election. We will be joined with the political science professor Colin Mooers at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Our coverage starts on June 8 at 8pm BST (3pm EDT).
All right, I have a cup of Yorkshire tea and a plate of hobnobs in front of me, so ready to go. Since we don’t know how things will go let’s start with some facts about the Nasty Party, aka the British Conservative Party or Tories and their record in government.
One of Elizabeth May’s chief ministers scolded voters saying ‘There is no magic money tree’ to pay for all the things the Labour Party has promised. That’s because they have given all the fruit on the tree to the wealthy. Corporate Tax was slashed from 26% to 19% a give away of nearly 64B British pounds. Further Capital Gains Tax reductions saved corporations 800B British pounds. They cut the Inheritance Tax by 3.6 B pounds. But the most revealing factoid is this: since 2009, the richest 1000 individuals doubled their wealth to 658 B British pounds. Everyone else got austerity.
And of course how to stop young people voting. http://www.independent.co.uk/News/uk/politics/election-2017-marginal-seats-voters-unable-vote-admin-errors-a7779981.html?amp
Tories are running scared.
Yes, we posted some news about this, thanks.
That’s good. Let’s put it to the Tories.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxM0swbuxQo
On the magic money tree…
Yes, the Artist Taxi Driver has nailed it throughout this campaign.
Hey, thanks Roger