‘To win back trust, Labour needs a clear dividing line on tax’
Updating Labour’s 2017 approach on income tax would ensure that only the top 5% of earners pay more - a fair and reasonable dividing line.
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Labour and vote Tory? You’re just Derisory Labour
“The End is nigh. The devil is amongst us and we will all suffer for not acknowledging the true messiah.” This is not a Ken Livingstone joke, but what the bloke outside my work window screams; whilst holding up a placard claiming that we…
Axing the 50p rate is no more than the Tories looking after Tories
The truth about whether to cut the current 50p top rate of tax, is that no one actually knows whether it has affected the behaviour of the top 1% of income taxpayers in a substantial long term way. Even the government’s claim that it has…
Iran: Military action or “a splutter of Musketry” must be the last option
Describing how to solve the Iranian Oil Crisis in early 1950, Winston Churchill, the then leader of the Opposition at the time, exclaimed that the only thing that was needed was simply: “a splutter of Musketry”. Subsequently as Prime…
Labour’s creed is to transform capitalism towards a commonwealth
Discussing 1920s capitalism John Maynard Keynes wrote: “Modern capitalism is absolutely irreligious, without internal union, without much public spirit, often, though not always, a mere congeries of possessors and pursuers”. Such an…
We need more working class MPs to get more working class leaders
One member of the House of Lords who expressed an interest in the Labour Diversity Fund to me recently quipped: “There are even more working class Labour politicians in here than there are in the House of Commons these days.” I have to take…
We need a long hard look at what Scotland under Labour should look like
By James Mills / @jamesmills1984 A political hero of mine is the great late Donald Dewar, who once said "Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics." These are words that ring in my ears after…
Liam “Winston” Fox is a closet Nat
By James Mills / @JamesMills1984 The Defence Secretary Liam Fox has had a rather busy week. He was only in Washington on Monday, but managed to jet back in time to give evidence to a Select Committee on Wednesday and attend a lunch with…
Deficit deceivers will soon replace deficit deniers
By James Mills / @jamesmills1984 Last year we heard the Tory-led government and their supporters describe everyone who disagreed with them as "deficit deniers", a rather childish coupling of our nation's finances with that of neo-Nazis who…
Ideas for electability – A voice for the voiceless (Labour Diversity Fund)
By James Mills The Labour Party has traditionally always been the platform which gave a "voice to the voiceless". However in recent years we have been a voice for the voiceless which is not quite the same thing. There is now a growing…
The only party to be trusted with the Armed Forces is Labour
By James Mills Today sees the Strategic Defence Review (SDR), after months of will he won he, Calamity Cameron has revealed that his Government will cut the defence budget by 8% cutting 7,000 troops and leaving us without a carrier to…
Equality of opportunity must be extended to the political sphere
By James Mills "A nation is not civilized because a handful of its members are successful…". Although R.H. Tawney is referring to economic inequality, the sentiment can be applied to a political party and a democracy if it is not a matter…