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Grace Blakeley
@graceblakeley.substack.com

Unemployment hurts governments. Inflation kills them. Starmer believed that his government was the exception - and did nothing to support those struggling during the cost of living crisis. This weekend, he was punished for his hubris. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

graceblakeley.substack.comThe Cost of Living RevoltEighteen years of stagnation built the far right's base. The cost of living crisis will put them in power.

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Dr Priest
@pennypriest.bsky.social

A neat summary of where we're at. For me, as a critical and community psychologist, I think this is the hardest bit: 'we need community organising to deliver the kind of mutual aid that has always protected workers from crises caused by capital.' I just don't know how to do this!

MaxAnglia
@maxanglia.bsky.social

And then what will they do? Farage doesn’t have a silver bullet. We will see further degradation of the economy and the poor will get poorer. Populism only ever ends in chaos. Only hope I can see is some coalition of the left in 2029 to defeat Farage.

Economics Teacher
@busecon.bsky.social

Exactly right. Greedy monopolies like Tesco regularly making £2/3bn in profits and Reeves and Starmer say and do nothing. NatWest announces £2bn profits off the back of rising interest rates. Again not a mention in the mainstream press