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Which issues are the ones likely to swing a general election result ?

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Georgeduhamel · 17/02/2024 10:53

Seems to be a big difference in real life outside MN and MN.
Most people I know are frustrated by the state of public services and the lack of money despite sky high taxes. Local schools are falling apart, NHS non functioning despite best efforts of the staff and our town centre is now reminiscent of an East European backwater in the 1970s with barely any shops and homeless folk on every corner. We also have a particularly inept Tory MP so I anticipate people will want to get rid of him.
Which things will affect your vote ? What’s most important ? In some respects I guess it depends on your personal situation and where you live. Leafy affluent home in Surrey life might not have changed, council estate in Rochdale you might be more eager to get rid of the current lot in government.
On MN, maybe understandably, gender ideology and labour’s uncertain stance seems to be a hot topic but does that trump the cost of living crisis or the lack of GP appointments or 24 hour delays in A/E ?
Fwiw I’m in agreement with most of the GC arguments but that won’t influence my vote for Labour.

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Goldenbear · 20/02/2024 10:31

The introduction of a land value tax this would hugely help with regional inequality and wealth inequality, the very wealthy are receiving passive wealth just by living in certain areas in the country and not others, they have done nothing to earn this wealth. The result is the asset rich with more and more wealth to buy assets and others being at the whim of their to rent raises or eviction.

I want to see wealth inequality tackled, those in receipt of huge passive wealth having to pay more. It permeates every aspect of our lives. I was reading an article yesterday where some Students at Lancaster University are having to not eat for 3 days due to COL, whilst other students living of the passive income of their parents' wealth have got enough to pay for all rent upfront for the following year, this is particularly the case in unis like Durham, Bristol, Bath... Why have we got to this point where further education is essentially for the rich, healthcare is only working for the rich, state education is dire with collapsing buildings and no provision for anything including healthy food or a place to sit in a canteen!!

Goldenbear · 20/02/2024 10:37

And I'm referencing the very wealthy here - 10 million plus, we are seeing the middle classes and working classes get poorer and poorer, whilst the very wealthy are sitting pretty and that trajectory is set to continue, by 2035, the wealth of the richest 200 families will be larger than the whole UK GDP! I want to see policies that make this an impossibility and I want my DC to have a chance of owning a property which will not be the case if all the wealth is owned by a tiny percentage of people!

ToryShillBot · 20/02/2024 12:03

The introduction of a land value tax this would hugely help with regional inequality and wealth inequality,

The thing is. while that is true, it's also the very reason we will never get it. Who wants an equal society ? Certainly not the English.

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ToryShillBot · 20/02/2024 12:03

The introduction of a land value tax this would hugely help with regional inequality and wealth inequality,

The thing is. while that is true, it's also the very reason we will never get it. Who wants an equal society ? Certainly not the English.

Do you mean Scotland would do it? They must have wealthy land owners there and can set their own taxes

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