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So why the fuck have we had to endure "the free market" these years ?

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SerendipityJane · 28/05/2023 16:58

Seems the free market is dead. Now can we all fuck off with dishing critical public services out to private companies please.

Oh, and this is more Corbyn than Corbyn.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/27/rishi-sunak-asks-stores-to-cap-basic-food-prices/

Rishi Sunak will ask stores to cap basic food prices

No 10 in discussions with supermarkets over French-style approach to cost of living crisis

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/27/rishi-sunak-asks-stores-to-cap-basic-food-prices

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Swrigh1234 · 28/05/2023 17:21

What free market? We have been living under pseudo socialism for about 25 years.

Tax credits introduced by labour to subsidize low wages so employers could pay below market wages. While the taxpayer picks up the bill.

Larry Summer (ex banker) actively ignored recommendations to legislate against risky behaviour by banks and we all know what happened after that. We all paid for it while money was siphoned by those at the top.

Countless proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine. Who do we think is paying for it? The taxpayer. So that big defence, that continually lobbies every government, can mint it.

While the banks and defence companies are at it, why should big Pharma miss out. A trillion dollars borrowed and printed by this government to pay for Covid. But Pfizer, AZ, J&J etc all did very well out of it.

Hey, let’s not leave big energy producer out. That wouldn’t be fair, would it. More unrest, money printing, taxes to pay people’s energy bills, but whose pay day is it really? Energy producers.

And now back to high interest rates so banks are taken care of. The cycle continues.

Taxes are at an all time high, our debt is out of control - this country borrowed £26bn last month alone to pay interest on debt and benefits. There are 6 million people on universal credit, of which 2 million don’t work at all. And ever decreasing cohort of people paying for it all.

The pigs have been in charge for some
time now and have made it quite clear that some animals are more equal than others.

CranfordScones · 28/05/2023 17:22

Because the free market has given us Aldi where you can buy a fairly decent sliced loaf - white or wholemeal - for 45p.

Sunak's policy is just political flag waving - a voluntary price cap which would cost the taxpayer nothing.

So, nothing even remotely like a Corbyn style policy.

LlynTegid · 28/05/2023 19:14

Like many things this government advocates, won't happen to any degree if at all.

I'm surprised some of the government can finish a meal.

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