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WHY DIDN'T LABOUR VOTE TO 'KILL' TORY TAX CREDIT CUTS IN HOUSE OF LORDS?
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Edited Nov 01, 2015, 19:21
Re: WHY DIDN'T LABOUR VOTE TO 'KILL' TORY TAX CREDIT CUTS IN HOUSE OF LORDS?
Oct 31, 2015, 08:01
A delay makes the Tories look weak politically (and stupid given that it was avoidable) and forces a rethink that softens the policy and that's a start. If you were expecting Corbyn to start punching Tory MPs in the chamber per Turkey, Ukraine and Japan et al then you are going to be disappointed.

The opposition needs the House of Lords to feel able to do stuff like this without reproach or sanction. Had the opportunistic Lib Dem fatal motion succeeded then what followed may well have scuppered the idea that peers will stand against a government determined to win ideological battles that harm the people.

The basic idea that employers should pay people decently and that those people should be able to live decently on what they earn without resorting to top-ups from the public purse is not in itself unreasonable. A Socialist should feel able to support that idea. Which is what the Tories say they are selling and is now exposed as a lie or a fudge depending on how you look at it.

These Tories (who are in their own way just like the Blairites in their inability to understand their own party and its history) are as-ever trying and failing to have it both ways - to look like humane and beneficent centre grounders, full of reasonableness and without something dangerous like an actual ideology, while pandering to paymasters whose psychopathic thirst for profits knows absolutely no limits.

With the possible exception of the Greens, the single issue parties don't want Labour to do well. They would love five years of mean spirited government opposed weakly by an enfeebled Labour party and supine House of Lords. All their Christmases would have come at once.
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