He increased taxes on private schools:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-private-schools-vat-policy-b2671720.html
He increased taxes on private jets :
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/budget-2024-private-jet-tax-rise-b2638927.html
He nationalized trains:
He passed a bill significantly increasing UK labor rights:
https://labourunions.org.uk/backthebill/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Rights_Act_2025
I think he should have been more agressive when it comes to private water nationalization. I think he should have banned gambling advertising. But it’s so sad people claimed he was right-wing.
I note that this synopsis conveniently forgets the punitive treatment of disabled people by cutting disability benefits and support, the erosion of trans rights, imprisonment of grandmothers for peacefully protesting an active genocide and selling arms to a country engaged in genocide. So left wing. Radical. Wow.
“Recognizes” Palestine, but if you agree with him the “wrong” way, then you’re literally a terrorist and will go to jail.
So left leaning.
Two socialists enter a pub. Three splinter groups form.
Or you can say is that really left? that people have been so conditioned by a right leaning Labour that this seems left?
No, that was the Attlee government. Or Harold Wilson’s.
While Starmer’s is economically much better than the Tory shit, it’s still rather centrist and he’s got other issues that undoubtedly everyone more right-wing than him also has.
Nothing says left wing like loosening fiscal investment rules.
Mmmm. When you put it like that… 🙃



