• ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Perhaps people say it because they understand political reality ?

    Captains of industry don’t donate to the Labour Party because they want a higher minimum wage, and increased taxation to fund public services - quite the opposite In fact.

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      4 months ago

      They might not want those things, but the ‘Captains of industry’ who donated to Labour in 1997 helped deliver those things. And that’s just reality, political or not.

      • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        Pretty sure that Labour didn’t deliver the NHS in 1997. What they did deliver was saddling the NHS with billions in PFI debt that has gone a not inconsiderable distance to putting it into the state it’s in now.

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          4 months ago

          They delivered the minimum wage in '97, which is what I was asked about, alongside countless other policies which made the country better.