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>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

Burnham’s economic architect Miatta Fahnbulleh recommends, among other things: •A wealth tax and yet another windfall tax on oil and gas. •Mass nationalisation e.g. of land, transport, and energy. •Extending national insurance to investment income. •A cap on interest rates and charges on every form of consumer credit. •Hiking capital gains tax to income tax levels. •Hiking divided tax to income tax levels. •Abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance. •Huge expansion of the benefits system including a “minimum income guarantee” paid to everyone apart from the rich. •Nationalisation of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds. •Block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalisation of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans.“ •Forced sale of existing businesses to employees. •A tripling of the stamp duty surcharge to 9% for multiple homeowners and an increase to 6% for non-residents.

There are two worrying aspects to this New Statesman article: 1. Andy Burnham apparently doesn't have many brains. 2. Miatta Fahnbulleh is filling the gap. Quasi-Marxist Miatta Fahnbulleh, who wants a wealth tax, widespread nationalisation inc. banks, land, transport & energy & the forced sale of existing firms to employees, is one of the worst people to put in charge of economic policy. She's a high tax fanatic tax who wants there to be 'free basic energy' & for state owned companies to flood the energy market. 1/3

Amazing level of BS is behind the estimate of 250,000 white girls victimized by "Muslim rape gangs." What they did was: 1) Come up with a number for Telford, Oxford, and Rotherham, the center of the scandal 2) Extrapolate to the rest of the country Imagine if, to calculate murders in America, you looked at Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore and then assumed all of America has the same murder rate. But wait, there's more! Even the original numbers are nonsense. To get the original estimate for Oxford, they included all supposed victims of sexual exploitation or grooming, by Muslims or anyone else. This means that they assumed 100% of victims were white girls and 100% of the perpetrators were Muslims for all cases of sexual exploitation! The report also switches between saying there were 250,000 victims, and 250,000 instances of victimization, without any explanation why. For Telford, they went back 40 years, though I don't think that there were Muslim rape gangs in the 1980s. The Oxford number includes all instances of "grooming," whether or not they involved sexual contact at all, and not much is shared about the methodology. It is a complete guess. I often hear rightists say "the liberals lie so I don't believe anything." What conclusion are we supposed to draw from the fact that rightists are this indifferent to facts?

Literally hours after an alleged terror attack against Muslims from a guy who we can all hear saying why he allegedly did it on video, Lowe is doubling down on the dangerous sweeping bigoted rhetoric. Vile people. Vile.

Vile attempts by Zack Polanski, Humza Yousaf and many others to demonise me following the release of our rape gang inquiry report will not work. For decades the mass rape of vulnerable white girls by gangs of Pakistani Muslims was covered up exactly because of efforts like this. It will not work anymore. There is a clear link between religion and these abhorrent crimes that have stained on our nation for so very long. That religion is Islam, and other politicians must finally find the courage to say so. Threats, abuse and intimidation will not work. We have held our hearings, the report has been published and now we move onto the private prosecution phase. Our aim is to put rapists and their enablers in prison. That is now our objective.

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for