Ian Dunt
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It's not there in Labour.
It's certainly not there on the Ken Bedlock's Conservative Party.
So, maybe they're there with the Greens.
But this attitude towards taxation, which is just basically like...
It's just the billionaires.
We're going to tax the billionaires.
That will get us all the money we need.
That is just fantasy land, infantile nonsense.
It's just not economically true.
And when you start to assess, look, we should do more taxes on very, very wealthy people.
And we should also do more taxes, I think, on assets and capital gains and all, because that's where the real inequality is more than there is on income.
These are all good ideas.
But we do have to, if we're not honest with people about the fact that, no, this is going to affect you too, you know, that you are going to pay more tax, just constantly encouraging people to think that someone else can always pay, which is basically how the British tax system has worked now for a couple of decades.
That is not going to get us to where we need to be.
And I don't see him levelling with people, Zach Polanski levelling with people at all, really.
I just see the sort of
fantasy land stuff where we can have all the nice things and we won't have any of the bad things and everything will be all right in the end.
So although, look, I quite liked having my tummy tickled.
And so it's nice for me to hear a politician come out and be like, immigration's good, actually.
And, you know, we don't think that Israel should just be able to do whatever it wants militarily in Gaza.