Zarah Sultana has claimed Volodymyr Zelensky “isn’t a friend of the working class“. In an interview with PoliticsJoe today, she said:
“We want this war to end because it is working class Ukrainians and working-class Russians who are being killed… Putin is a dictator, a gangster, and there are war crimes that have been committed but Zelensky isn’t a friend of the working class either and those were the voices that I was hearing in Paris… the only people that benefit from conflict in Ukraine and um in in Gaza or anywhere else are arms manufacturers and people who profit from the arms industry.”
Sultana went on to say that ‘Your Party’ needs to elect an executive committee “led by the movement” without any MPs on it, and that 14-year-olds should be able to join the party too. Plenty of things for comrade Corbyn to chew on…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”