Another Angry Voice has published an article listing 12 things you should know about Starmer’s “Things Will Get Worse” speech – and it is damning.

I’m only going to excerpt from the first criticism because I want you to visit the source article. The following should be enough to whet your appetite in any case:

“We have inherited not just an economic black hole [but also] a societal black hole. And that is why we have to take action and do things differently. Part of that is being honest with people – about the choices we face. And how tough this will be. Frankly – things will get worse before they get better.”

1. “Things will get worse before they get better”

This is exactly how austerity was sold to us in the first place back in 2010. Remember how Cameron and Osborne promised that their savage austerity cuts would have eliminated the budget deficit by 2015, then things would get better?

The budget deficit was supposed to be cleared 9 years ago but it hasn’t been; the national debt has tripled; the cuts have just continued and continued; public services are in a desperate state; local governments all over the country are teetering on the brink of insolvency; and wages have remained stagnant for a decade and a half.

We’ve already had fourteen long years of “short-term pain” with the promise of jam tomorrow never coming true, and yet Starmer has nothing to offer except more of the same myopic austerity cuts, and more lies about how doing the same economic vandalism as before is magically going to work this time around and bring prosperity.

Who was it who said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Oh yes – Einstein. He was a wise fellow.

And he’s reaching forward from history to prove himself right again. Just because Starmer didn’t mention austerity, it’s exactly what he’s preaching.

And we’ve had austerity.

And it didn’t work.

We expected – and deserve – better.

Source: 12 things you should know about Starmer’s “Things Will Get Worse” speech

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