c/uk_politics · by Zocha@lemmy.world · 320d

Andy Burnham says MPs are privately urging him to challenge Starmer for Labour leadership

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/andy-burnham-mps-challenge-starmer-labour-leadership-prime-minister-greater-manchester-mayo

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frankPodmore@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 320d (4 replies)

Not surprising really. Unless the Budget turns things around dramatically at some level, we need to get Starmer (and Reeves) out before we get trashed in the 2026 elections.

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 320d (3 replies)

We need to get off this constant debt train and improve the woeful productivity levels in this country. Yet another change of leader isn't going to help. Although I will admit I like Andy more than Keir. KING IN DA NAAARTH!

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 320d (2 replies)

We need to get off this constant debt train and improve the woeful productivity levels in this country.

Trouble is, no one actually knows how to do this! I'm aware there are lots of suggestions, of course, but no one knows.

omcgo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d (1 reply)

We've done it before; post WWII. How? We taxed the fuck out of the rich, specifically static assets like estates. You can't move land to Dubai.

We need wealth taxes.

Marginal income tax rates on the very wealthy were extremely high (often 80–90% in the UK and US). Estate taxes were also heavy, and wealth/land taxes played a role. These were politically possible because of the war consensus and public appetite for fairness and rebuilding.

Unfortunately the propaganda being pumped at the masses has dulled that appetite.

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 320d

I get what you're saying and I agree with the general policy of taxing the rich, but I don't think the relationship between productivity and taxes is straightforward either way.