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Sunak's progress on "5 promises" (www.bbc.co.uk)

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I still can't believe one of them was "stop the boats".

Of the others:

Halve inflation (still a long way to go)
Grow the economy (economy is board flat)
Cut the national debt (debt has now risen to 100% GDP)
Cut NHS waiting lists (waiting lists now even longer)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The Brexit Party is a right-wing libertarian populist party organised out of Tufton Street. What we know about populists is that they make promises that large sections of the electorate generally want with no actual intention of carrying them out. Berlusconi’s whole career was built out of that in Italy. Farage has always insistedhe wants the NHS privatised.

Their policies were always a chaotic mix of meas - intended to be so by a section of the ruling class who wants to see the UK a completely deregulated extreme neoliberal state where the free market is some Lovecraftian deity we worship and are terrified will slaughter us.