tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1351054062988373307..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Preserving Tory AuthorityPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74338370097521639292021-01-20T12:20:40.127+00:002021-01-20T12:20:40.127+00:00And we have the highest Covid death rate per capit...And we have the highest Covid death rate per capita in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-43940614624222899472021-01-19T11:40:15.949+00:002021-01-19T11:40:15.949+00:00«while Keir Starmer thinks the laurels are going t...«while Keir Starmer thinks the laurels are going to fall into his lap for playing fair and keeping schtum. It's pitiful.»<br /><br />That's realistic actually: many UK "marginal" voters, like most, don't vote *for* the opposition, but to throw out the government party if they "screw up" (on their vote-moving issue). If in 2024 the Conservatives screw up, like with the 1990s property crash, then New, New Labour has a chance.<br /><br />But then the opposition has a chance in that case *regardless* of their political positioning, regardless of whether they have been "playing fair and keeping schtum". In 1997 marginal voters were so outraged by the crash and negative equity that they would have voted for Pol Pot or Gualtieri to punish the Conservatives.<br />The "tory liberal" line of Keir Starmer may be motivated by the desire to attribute to it the possible victory in 2024, and then claim for it a mandate, even if the victory, like in 1997 (and 2001 and 2005) were actually due to the desire to punish the Conservatives.Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64620899817171442382021-01-18T23:31:59.532+00:002021-01-18T23:31:59.532+00:00And amazingly, showing their utter lack of compreh...And amazingly, showing their utter lack of comprehension of even fairly recent history, it seems Rishi and co are looking at the abolition of Council Tax and wrapping this up with what was stamp duty, based on new residential valuation, and dubbed, tentatively, a "property levy". Cue, harrumphing in the Daily Mail's property pages, and soon, I guess, for the front pages, we see the recreation of all the old arguments about the poll tax - even the famous widow who does not want to leave her large, solely occupied house, for sentimental reasons makes a return. david walshnoreply@blogger.com