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‘Labour is fair game’: Led By Donkeys says it will hold government to account

www.theguardian.com ‘Labour is fair game’: Led By Donkeys says it will hold government to account

Satirical artists’ collective that recently pranked Liz Truss says project is not tribal, although focus remains on far right

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So they should. I've yet to really detect that Tories are no longer in charge. Perhaps it makes no difference who is.

I also think that we should be grateful to Liz Truss for so clearly demonstrating that a) politicians are stupid and b) that if they do try to really change anything in the economy they will be destroyed by the banking and media kleptocracy.

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- The budget is yet to arrive.
  
  Truss and Kwarteng fucked things with unfunded cuts, not because of the media and banks.
  
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  Truss and Kwarteng fucked things with unfunded cuts, not because of the media and banks.
  
  If I remember rightly, their budget wasn't implemented for long enough to directly cause problems - it was the financial sector's reaction to the announcement that caused the damage. It was a bad budget and definitely should have been rejected. But it should have been rejected democratically by citizens not by finance and their media friends. The reason I'm being pedantic about this is because it shows how beholden we are to the financial sector. If Truss and Kwarteng had instead come out with a good budget which would improve the lives of 99% of citizens but at the expense of the rent-seeking hoarders of capital I think the same thing would have happened. It's like "the markets" have a gun held to the governments head at all times. That's the reason why I think Labour have been banging on about economic growth rather than economic justice; the power of concentrated wealth has become too big and dangerous to risk taking anything away from, so more must be created.
  
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- It takes more than a few weeks to undo 14 years of damage. Negotiations have started for limited regulation alignment with the EU, the response to the race riots was decent, legislation is starting to go through.
  
  Hold them to account, but I would recommend being fair about it.
  
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  Especially when parliament is in recess!
  
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I find Led by Donkeys very annoying, but they're absolutely right that Labour are fair game for satire. How could they not be?

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- Some people seem to have forgotten that humour isn't limited to "our side good, your side bad, hahaha".
  
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  You're right and usually Led by Donkeys forget this, too, which is why they're not funny! But maybe this is a sign that they're about to turn over a new leaf and become actually amusing.
  
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- They are annoying because they're just grifters. They claim to be speaking "truth to power" but really they just make shit jokes.
  
  Of course they're going to say that Labour is fair game now, because how else are they going to get money from people just from following Liz Truss around?
  
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  She does give good value for money in the overreacting department.
  
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- To some people, any criticism of the center just means you're aiding the right.
  
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