To think TUSC (Trade Union Socialist Coalition) should get far more media attention.

[Jacobsmum1972]

As someone who is far left wing, I will be possibly voting for TUSC.

They have had a very limited media attention. They have the backing of several unions and socialist parties that have a considerable amount of members.

Aibu to think that Smaller parties like TUSC need a voice.

the rich move here because we are a safe democracy with reasonable tax rates who do not elect loons. If the TUSc or their ilk get power, the rich will just move, taking the money with them.
£1bn sounds like a lot of money, but spread across the country is £20 a person. £100bn is a one-off payment of £2,000 a head, even if you could get it all. The top 1,000 people have wealth of £547bn, c.£10,000 a head.

currently the top 3,000 earners paying an average £2.6 million each in tax. So the top 3,000 paid more tax than the bottom 7.5 million. That’s what I call a fair share.

1 in 20 workers get the minimum wage, that is c 1.5 million people. Upping it to £10/hour will cost £10.8bn, even assuming no-one elses wages move

absolute fucking lunacy

Thanks. Now read the post from Prole above.

Return to the 1970s, negative and impractical.
The top 1% of workers pay 29.8 of all income tax (figures for 2013-14); low earners have had income tax cut.

Well they were on Gogglebox so that will have raised their profile!

We have some here that spend a lot of time giving leaflets out by the job centre, rain or shine and not just in election run up. Certainly v dedicated and believe the stuff they are saying.

prole demonstrates exactly why simple idealism can't deal with the hard facts.

"Renegotiate if not just bin PFI contracts"
The PFI contracts started by Labour and continued under the Coalition are legally binding contracts that can only be ended by invoking penalty clauses and paying huge amounts of compensation. Effectively you'd be giving the companies all their future profits in advance and then picking up the pieces. You have Gordon Brown to thank for that one.

"Raise minimum wage, improve employment law and stop paying subsidies for low pay in private business"
All of which would put huge financial pressure of the small and medium businesses that employ most people in this country. No business is going to recruit staff under those conditions, and many would go bust. Unemployment would rocket.

I could go on, but unlike prole I have to work in the real world.

For countries which have tried this sort of thing, including renationalisation with minimum compensation, see Venezuela from 1999

I went to a hustings recently where there was a TUSC candidate. I'd never come across them before but I have to say I was impressed by the candidate - she came across as more knowledgeable and measured than some of the mainstream party candidates.

Lunatics. Not based in reality. That is all.

I was impressed by the candidate - she came across as more knowledgeable and measured than some of the mainstream party candidates.
Any party can come up with a convincing speaker. Some of the most extreme dictators in history got the crowds worked up and chanting support.
It's what their parties' actual intentions are that count. TUSC want to destroy the system and replace it with one that has never, ever worked when tried elsewhere.

I want to vote for TUSC, but there are no candidates standing in my area unfortunately.