• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We saw how politically unviable it was to take away WFA from those who had money while still preserving it for people who don’t.

    Labour completely collapsed in the polls overnight, and have paid an extremely heavy price for it, with the biggest reason stated for the polling drop and sub-par local election results being the WFA changes. There’s a good chance that removing Doris’ wine fund like that has enabled a Reform 2030 government.

    Now imagine scrapping triple-lock.

    It simply will not happen. Anybody who says they do it won’t be elected, and anybody who does it without it in their manifesto won’t be elected again.

    Not that Labour could pass it even if the leadership wanted to weather that storm. There would be a backbencher revolt the likes of which we’ve never seen before. MPs wouldn’t back something they know will get them ousted.

    Sadly it seems the only thing that will put an end to the insanity of triple lock is terms pending a bailout from the IMF.