Comments on: Clive Lewis: Tory dogma is the root cause of war, refugees and climate change https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:51:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Tony https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/#comment-831795 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:14:04 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115311#comment-831795 Labour should oppose the replacement of the Trident nuclear status symbol. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever with defence.

Denis Healey, former Defence Secretary:

“I was very doubtful about the need for Britain to have nuclear weapons but I didn’t express it in public. The main reason we had them was not to deter a Soviet attack but to reassure the Americans”.

14/03/2011: “Document” Radio 4

Most of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet opposed the original decision to purchase Trident and so it is not asking much for the Labour Party to oppose its replacement.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/30/thatcher-cabinet-opposed-trident-purchase

]]> By: Michael WALKER https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/#comment-831542 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:31:34 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115311#comment-831542 >Alasdair Macdonald
“ list of plagues which the neo-liberal economic doctrine which has been hegemonic since the days of Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan, and continued by Messrs Blair, Brown and Darling, has visited on the great mass of the population.”

Congratulations.. two buzzwords in the same (very long) sentence.

Problem is: I have no idea what you mean.
and: Long sentences are bad news for internet readers.

Of course it could be my dementia .. But I suspect you mean we should be able to spend money like water.. As the Government has been borrowing money like there is no tomorrow since 2008, that is unlikely to work very well.
Of course, if you want to go back to pre Thatcher economics, borrowing more money will lead to a sterling crisis and a huge rise in inflation. I lived through all that under Callaghan and Healey.

You really don’t appear to have a clue what the results of going back to the 1970s means – which is what you appear to be advocating. But as your post is full of jargon,, I may be wrong and you mean balancing the budget.:-)

]]> By: Alasdair Macdonald https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/#comment-831512 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:48:16 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115311#comment-831512 Mr Walker, if you leave out “eat babies”, “enslav[ing] the poor and kill[ing] the sick and aged” can certainly be rightly included with the list of plagues which the neo-liberal economic doctrine which has been hegemonic since the days of Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan, and continued by Messrs Blair, Brown and Darling, has visited on the great mass of the population. Mr Lewis is right to identify who is responsible for these things. They are the enactment of a political dogma. We have a choice, this dogma is not a law of nature like the laws of physics.

]]> By: Michael WALKER https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/#comment-831504 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:08:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115311#comment-831504 “Tory dogma is the root cause of war, refugees and climate change”

He could have added: they also eat babies, enslave the poor, and kill the sick and aged. They also start wars abroad on false evidence and mislead Parliament. Ooops sorry that was the last Labour Government..

]]> By: Just Cann https://leftfootforward.org/2016/09/clive-lewis-tory-dogma-is-the-root-cause-of-war-refugees-and-climate-change/#comment-831498 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:47:07 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=115311#comment-831498 Clive Lewis has a very good chance to become the next leader of the labour party after Corbyn retires. Clive Lewis is just the younger version of Corbyn.

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