Comments on: Party labels and Big Lie theory https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/10/party-labels-and-big-lie-theory/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Graham C. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/10/party-labels-and-big-lie-theory/#comment-16965 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:17:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=953#comment-16965 Being the modern and progressive man he is, I think he got it ( ‘will the real prime minister please stand up?’) from here:
http://www.imeem.com/sandrab012/video/Y8MgxmW3/eminem_the_real_slim_shady_music_video/

]]> By: Drew https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/10/party-labels-and-big-lie-theory/#comment-16964 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:02:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=953#comment-16964 Daphne – “Progressive left-wing Joe’s advice? Here goes: the man he calls Lawrence should cut taxes and put more money in people’s pockets because they now have to pay more for their electricity. Right, where do I begin, in between tearing my hair out and wondering whether I will ever live to see the day when Labour, for the first time in my experience, has a leader with the right confluence of intelligence, awareness, experience, and leadership skills? Cutting taxes to give people more spending power is not a left-wing progressive policy. It is a neo-liberal policy. And that’s why it was in the Nationalist Party’s political programme for the last election, but not in the Labour Party’s programme. Left-wing progressive parties raise taxes so as, presumably, to have more to spend on social welfare and the infrastructure, though in the days when the highest tax rate was 95%, we had very little of either.”

That’s exactly what I thought when Joe said that on Xalatabank. It’s what I hate about the Labour Party: where the hell do they stand? What’s their economic policy? Have they accepted the neoliberal way of thinking or not? If not, please say so. Make your stance clear and stop being populists.

Regarding the promised income tax cuts, I still think it would make sense for the government to introduce them in this year’s budget. And especially since every union seems to be complaining about the new tariff system, I’m positve the government will be sensible and offer some form of “compensation” in the form of tax cuts. If that means cutting spending, then so be it.

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