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pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 18:06:04 JST pettter
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@RichardJMurphy Well Wes Streeting has been described by longtime associates as, and I quote, 'a right-wing, lickspittle cunt'. So. No surprises there.

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  Richard Murphy (richardjmurphy@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 18:06:05 JST Richard Murphy
  
  Wes Streeting is wrong: rising tides do not float all boats https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/07/wes-streeting-is-wrong-rising-tides-do-not-float-all-boats/ Wes Streeting used a right-wing economic trope yesterday that suggests that ‘trickle down’ economics works. Forty plus years of evidence shows that it does not, and that deep poverty is rising in this country. Apparently, he is indifferent to that. This is not a good start.
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    Wes Streeting is wrong: rising tides do not float all boats
    
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    Wes Streeting, our new Health Secretary, posted this tweet yesterday: I cannot believe that Wes Streeting used the language of trickle down economics, so beloved of neoliberals from the ‘80s onwards , so blatantly and so openly. The claim that ‘a rising tide floats all boats’ is a classic neoliberal trope. The...

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