I am by conviction a Labour supporter but this party lead by Jeremy Corbyn is making it so hard to vote this time. No one could call me some kind of far left Corbynistas I am more a centrist with a touch of mild left in me.
A draft of the Labour manifesto was leaked last night in The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror newspapers a week before its official release. As it was being reported on late TV news, it lit up social media like a Christmas tree.
Renationalise was the big buzzword in the papers with railways, the Royal Mail, and a public run energy industry high on the books if he (Corbyn) is elected Prime Minister. For those who can remember pools winner Viv Nicholson, she famously shouted SPEND SPEND SPEND from the rooftop. I am getting this kind of feeling with this outline draft manifesto. No one from the Labour party have smashed the doors down of TV and Radio stations to deny it and read into that what you want.
A spokesperson for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “We do not comment on leaks. We will announce our policies in our manifesto, which is our plan to transform Britain for the many, not the few.”
The 51-page document also outlines promises of £6bn a year extra for the NHS and £1.6bn a year for social care. There are also commitments to abolish university tuition fees and order local authorities to build 100,000 new council houses a year and they are still spending.
Other commitments include private rent hikes capped at inflation together with proposals for a new Ministry of Labour to strengthen workers’ employment rights and not to forget scrapping strike laws. I get the feeling the paymaster of the Labour Party, the unions, have their fingers all over this proposal.
The manifesto commits Labour to Trident, but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s is opposed to the nuclear deterrent and if he gets enough of his supporters into Parliament that could change.
In education £5 billion for schools and the abolition of university tuition fees. On Brexit, the party promises to rule out leaving the European Union without a deal. Local authorities ordered to build 100,000 new council homes a year. Policing – 10,000 extra police officers. Prisons should be a place “of last resort”.
Immigration there are plans to abandon rules stopping British citizens bringing in non-European spouses. The minimum income threshold will be dropped, replaced with an obligation to live in Britain without reliance on public funds or benefits
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There is more to soak up I have just cover the big ticket items in this post but there was no costings. All we know is the rich, bankers and big business are the chosen payment option but how hard he will shake that tree
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Will these trees stand still.
I was watching Channel 4 news yesterday and there was a news report from Dublin who are ready with open hands to the banks. One paper runs a monthly big crane count and last month there were 60 across the Dublin skyline building offices to attract the city jobs. The same is happening over most of Europe. If they hammer down on big business most have factories outside the UK they could transfer jobs away to the cheaper Far East or Eastern Europe. People say “no they will not” but they could everything is changing no one can be sure of what will happen next these days.
The return to the seventies has been targeted at the Labour manifesto and I love the seventies but I did not enjoy some of it. Strikes almost daily and the three-day week and with the strikes came mountains of rubbish in the streets, blackout, and fuel shortages along with no bread, sugar, or milk and the Winter of Discontent that brought down a Labour government. So the seventies where not all that good.
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