‘We can have either democracy and public accountability or rampant corporate power concentrated in the hands of a few business executives, but not both.’
‘The last twelve years of cuts in public spending, have failed to deliver economic growth, prosperity, or resilience to household budgets.’
‘Corporations excel in corrupt practices by funding political parties and legislators to ensure that their interests are prioritised.’
‘The UK needs a fresh start and that can’t be provided by the Conservative party hoisting another neoliberal prime minister on the country. We need a general election now.’
There is little appreciation that rights and protections embodied in regulation are the outcome of generations of struggles to safeguards lives, homes, jobs, savings, property rights, dignity, and freedom from discrimination.
‘The right-wing coup is no respecter of democracy. ‘
The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.
‘It is far better to end poverty and bring the energy sector into public ownership. We can’t afford privatisation.’
‘My brief visits to pawnshops are by no means a scientific study, but they do provide a glimpse of the tragedies inflicted by years of maldistribution of income and wealth, poverty, inequalities and obsession of privatisation which has left many teetering on the edge.’
“We need to democratise corporations and have effective accountability embedded in law to secure equitable distribution of income.”
