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Turn the Carousel, Vote Corbyn

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The British people are going to deliver a peaceful revolution this Thursday, whichever way the election goes tomorrow. And we could have gone either way.

Get brexit done is a fairly appealing message from Boris Johnson, the conservative candidate for Prime Minister. The problem is he has not quite said how it will be done.

If he is elected there will be a year long negotiation period. What does he want the outcome of those negotiations to look like?

He has had five weeks to explain, and for the past two weeks he has received good hearing when voters were afforded the opportunity to hear him. At no point has he gone beyond those three words which in many ways mean nothing as the future of the country for generations is not some breakfast we just get done with, but something that requires much consideration.

Practically Boris could not say much about brexit. The Nigel Farage extreme wing would shout “not brexit” if he said deep and special partnership. The other side would quickly turn against him if he gave any hint there won’t be a deep and special partnership. Thus Boris has largely run away from the electorate and that does cost him some points.

Where labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn is concerned, their approach is to deliver what was said during the referendum. When we joined in the 70s we voted for a single market, not a political union, was one main justification for voting leave.

Considering how close the result was, to stay in the single market and not in the political union is an approach that might appeal to most of the country provided this can be negotiated satisfactorily. This is what Corbyn has promised.

He has also promised a referendum with remain as an option, but although brexit has been turned into many things, the base of it is simple.

The euro area needs to merge. UK has kept the pound, so it can’t merge. Thus in or out, there has to be some negotiated arrangement. Meaning brexit has been blown out of proportion and in many ways is not a priority over many other matters.

As both Boris and Corbyn are brexiteers with the only question here being just how much out and how much in, it so happens that what was thought would be the brexit election is in fact not much about brexit at all as there’s hardly any real difference between the two at least where independents are concerned.

The conservatives therefore may have miscalculated in nauseating about brexit, and thus Corbyn has suddenly began appearing as a very smart man.

The Manifesto For the Age

When we looked at the manifestos and so began considering the options, Labour’s promise of a Citizens’ Assembly was one thing that we thought could lean us one way or another.

Almost nothing is known about this Assembly, but it’s to be called on constitutional matters. That could include brexit too and presumably if it goes well it could be extended.

That would be a very peaceful revolution indeed in politics as the people would gain more power for the first time in a century or more.

Another revolution of sorts from labour would be progressive taxation. That too is very much needed because the tax bracket of ?20,000 where proper income taxes apply has not changed since ?20,000 could buy you a house in London in the 90s.

That ?20,000 of the 90s is what today we’d think of as ?80,000. Yet the tax bracket ends at ?40,000 at a 40% rate.

Again, this has hardly changed for decades even though, especially as all know in this space, the effects of inflation can be cumulative when taken holistically.

Corbyn’s proposition thus is to continue progressive taxation beyond ?40,000 and tax income above ?80,000 at 45%. That above ?125,000 at 50%.

That can be seen as communist or it can be seen as keeping up with inflation. Meaning the next conservative government, after labour if they gain power, could take people earning less than ?20,000 or maybe even less than ?30,000 out of taxes.

As inequality has now reached even revolutionary proportions with the young on the streets in many countries, this change in taxation distribution is arguably very necessary.

The “communist” party is to give ?250 billion to startups in loans in what by itself could well be a certain revolution of sorts.

The late 20s and early 30s have been forgotten in many ways, but they are the ones who can have the biggest effect. Almost all big business names were around that age when they first began striking success.

Supporting their business dreams is what you’d expect the conservatives to do with gusto. Instead it’s the so called “communists.”

We’ve all seen the little boy on the floor in hospital, but conservatives have sold our churches too. In cities especially, it is fairly difficult during day time to find a quite place to just sit for a moment.

Both those examples are a proxy argument for a bigger theme. The UK economy is contracting in real terms when we account for inflation, or at best has seen almost no growth.

The economy needs a boost. Build the bridges, build the hospitals, build the schools, build the houses, and build all the solar panels.

Renewable energy is the future. It may well grow to be as big an industry as oil. The latter is gifted by god with us mortals having no choice over its location. The former is from the heavens too, but we can choose where it booms.

Again, this championing of innovation and business is what you’d expect from conservatives, but it’s the “communists” that put it very prominently in their manifesto.

All this is needed because there is much frustration in the country and anger. They expressed it by hodling two fingers up in the brexit referendum. Boris’ manifesto, save for in or out of europe which in many ways doesn’t matter, is basically a continuation of what led to that frustration in the first place.

That being the sense of injustice that Wall Street was bailed out while Main Street was left to sink. Well Labor is now proposing the Main Street bailout.

And of Corbyn himself, like most, our view of him was formed by those five second headlines, but now when looked closer during these past five weeks he has shown himself to be very smart by his actions.

This editorial for example could have been very different. It certainly could have gone conservative, but libdem too. Corbyn outplayed the latter, however, and very skillfully. In the past two weeks especially, he has in many ways outplayed Boris too.

What Went Wrong For Borisov?

Boris’ decision to suspend parliament had many raise their eyebrows in wonder of whether it’s he who is stupid or his advisors, with most concluding it’s probably both.

What followed was very predictable, and thus began his fall in support as this was no longer the man that was perceived to be.

As the election progressed he began to appear more like Hilary Clinton. Entitled, dull, generally boring, and expecting a coronation.

When we say dull we don’t mean superficially, there he’s a character but if we want comedy we watch the Variety Show not number 10.

We mean his manifesto, which reads like a bureaucratic document that has so many words which say nothing.

We expected optimism, a cheerleading of innovation, of technology, of business, even a hymn to capitalism, to the wonders of life after brexit, to GREAT Britain, a vision, and a big vision.

Instead, conservatives in this election are basically a one issue party. Give us a blank cheque because brexit.

There’s nothing. You can say investment in roads, but that’s like saying water is wet.

The point based system for immigration may be something for some, but that’s building whole fields and then letting fruits go unpicked.

Meaning Britain helped raise to first class standards many European nations, and now those countries are rich, some propose putting a wall at the English Channel.

Plus, after ten years of hostile environment when even British citizens have been deported, it’s perhaps time to ease the ghetos.

It’s perhaps time for peace to be given a chance, and Corbyn is obviously a man of peace, but if your priority is not having the right of movement within Europe, then the conservative manifesto would have something.

We think integration is very important, and certain values must be upheld by all, but otherwise UK is at full employment and as it happens in many cases it is the best of other countries that come, and they come because of those values in many instances.

They look up to us as was shown when they rose in 2011 and even now they on the streets of Lebanon demanding secular democracy.

Boris himself is of course very pro-immigration, and the point based system is to encourage people to come, rather than closing them out. Making even this not quite something.

The Vote of a Generation

This is the first December election in a century and its outcome, whichever way, will be the biggest revolution in politics since the 70s.

It is perhaps the first election when the millennials vote might be felt. Zoomers too, while Boomers might hold less sway because perhaps this time they’re not very sure.

Labour of course is giving the Boomers ?50 billion outright. So many of them are sure of which way to go, but it’s not an easy choice for grandmas or the rest.

On balance we think labour’s plans to swing the balance between the very wealthy and the rest, as well as their plans on reforming politics with trying out a Citizens’ Assembly, can make Britain far more dynamic.

Their focus on startups, for example, can address corporations’ tendency towards monopolization. Their spending plans are even a cause for optimism.

The conservatives could have of course swayed us, but their campaign has been even worse than their manifesto.

We don’t think in this country anyone should be coronated save for the king or the queen. Expecting to win by default is a reason itself to go the other way.

Not facing Andrew Neils in a brief informative 30 minutes robs many voters of the opportunity to make an informed decision.

The recent information that has come out in regards to potential conservative connections to a disinformation campaign over an utterly sensitive matter is just one of many events that might suggest a conservative government might be a bit chaotic.

After so much that we have gone through it is perhaps time for some nice peace and quiet and spend spend spend. It is afterall the 20s that are coming, and there isn’t a reason why these too shouldn’t be the roaring 20s.

A battle between Corbyn and Boris was always going to be epic, but we didn’t think the latter would not even try, and after all is said and done, Corbyn has impressed.

If he has so impressed in this five weeks interview, then perhaps he would too as Prime Minister. Hence on balance we lean Corbyn, perhaps to the surprise of even ourselves.

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