{"id":84604,"date":"2025-08-02T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84604"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:29:59","slug":"labour-cant-recover-from-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/02\/labour-cant-recover-from-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour can’t recover from this"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Tweets were published last night. <\/a>The source has always been reliable.<\/p>\n

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What do they mean? Essentially, Labour has collapsed in a quite extraordinary fashion.<\/p>\n

People do not think it has delivered.<\/p>\n

They do not trust it to deliver.<\/p>\n

And now, I rather suspect they think it is simply a Zionist organisation working against the best interests of humanity at large, and most especially the people of Gaza, who remain pawns in their pathetic attempts to play in the field of international diplomacy.<\/p>\n

What it quite emphatically has not done is address any of the problems people in the UK feel they have. It does not even seem to understand, or want to understand, what they are.<\/p>\n

So whilst households struggle to make ends meet, Labour talks about how to direct their savings to the City.<\/p>\n

Whilst people fear job losses, Labour talks continually about growth, which is very obviously not happening and not going to happen.<\/p>\n

Whilst climate change is happening all around us, Labour dithers.<\/p>\n

And, on migration, nothing it says it would do has happened, but worse, the reasons why people fear migration, whether justified or not, from housing shortages onwards, are not being addressed.<\/p>\n

People wanted something better. They have got something worse than the Tories, which is the only staggering achievement you can credit Labour with. They will not recover from this. And nor do they deserve to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Tweets were published last night. The source has always been reliable.   What do they mean? Essentially, Labour has collapsed in a quite extraordinary
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