Eliminating age bands and increasing minimum wage was one I wasn’t expecting.
Gradually re-acquiring and nationalising railway contracts, a nationalised energy solution, reform of planning laws for housing, binning hereditary peers from House of Lords, bin Rwanda, restricting second jobs for MPs and increased scrutiny on post-MP roles.
There’s some good stuff in there for sure. It’s all understandably very measured but I don’t really know what more can reasonably be expected in this Parliament. If there were a way, I would want the two child benefit cap gone and I’d want them to be more ambitious with infrastructure investment… but I understand why they want the foundations in place with better planning and implementation before promising those things. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
I think even if you don’t like Starmer (and I reserve judgement on him), if they deliver what’s in this manifesto people will be very happy.
Head of Iceland supermarket and a 'normal' guy speaking before the manifesto launch.
You'd think Labour are trying to pitch they will look after everyone if they are elected.
Yep, sensible enough overall. He can't go promising the earth because of the state of the country at the moment but if he gets even half of that little lot over the line in the next few years, it'll be a decent start IMO.Eliminating age bands and increasing minimum wage was one I wasn’t expecting.
Gradually re-acquiring and nationalising railway contracts, a nationalised energy solution, reform of planning laws for housing, binning hereditary peers from House of Lords, bin Rwanda, restricting second jobs for MPs and increased scrutiny on post-MP roles.
There’s some good stuff in there for sure. It’s all understandably very measured but I don’t really know what more can reasonably be expected in this Parliament. If there were a way, I would want the two child benefit cap gone and I’d want them to be more ambitious with infrastructure investment… but I understand why they want the foundations in place with better planning and implementation before promising those things. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
I think even if you don’t like Starmer (and I reserve judgement on him), if they deliver what’s in this manifesto people will be very happy.
Would be nice if a coalition of the Lib Dems and Count Binface formed the opposition.I hope the pricks end up with fewer votes than the Green Party, George Galloway’s jihadists and Count Binface.
The alternative is a more left wing agenda, but even with a massive majority in seats Starmer won't get 50% of the popular vote. So more lefty policies wouid mean another "minority" government with a less robust mandate. I really have no idea now what a Starmer government will look like, but apart from just not being nasty and/or shit and showing all parties are not the same, they can use the levers of power to set an agenda, capitalise on the demographics (links to EU, build houses, less xenophobia) and maybe shift that Overton window back left. And secure for workers by hand and brain the fruits of their labour...Think you’ve nailed it with the last sentence. Party members of any party are nothing like representative of the population in general, and it needs a dispassionate view to make the judgement of who is most likely to appeal to the largest number of the population, and that won’t come from party members.
Or what, give them a platform on national TV (without knowing what they were protesting about)? It's the equivalent of someone chaining themselves to a goalpost mid-game.Protestor gets in and is treated
the same way as other lefties in the party and promptly booted out.
Erm, yeah, this is, er, quite something.
Erm, yeah, this is, er, quite something.
True, although I’d be happy for her to be deselected for posting that video.Astonishing that she was the only MP thrown out of the Commons for calling Liar Johnson a liar.
Astonishing that she was the only MP thrown out of the Commons for calling Liar Johnson a liar.
I don't think you should sit on the fence like this Magic!Just watching the news. A young woman called out that Tory MI5 plant Starmer and his policies as Tory, she was right. They cunts get to feather their nests, he wants to allow them to keep their feathers and cut services to working class people. I fucking detest that ****. Labour, you are traitors to the people who founded you to look after our interests. This election is probably the worst I have ever witnessed.
We have a Tory lite shambles of cowards.
He won’t raise taxes, so that means across every aspect of working class people’s lives, we pay for those incompetent lying Tory scum.
So, fuck you Starmer. I hope your battle bus runs you over, you utter ****.
Brilliant. All Labours fault, how do you think they’ll get on in Scotland?Just watching the news. A young woman called out that Tory MI5 plant Starmer and his policies as Tory, she was right. They cunts get to feather their nests, he wants to allow them to keep their feathers and cut services to working class people. I fucking detest that ****. Labour, you are traitors to the people who founded you to look after our interests. This election is probably the worst I have ever witnessed.
We have a Tory lite shambles of cowards.
He won’t raise taxes, so that means across every aspect of working class people’s lives, we pay for those incompetent lying Tory scum.
So, fuck you Starmer. I hope your battle bus runs you over, you utter ****.
On a serious note, perhaps you should judge him after 5 years of power, not a pre election campaign?Just watching the news. A young woman called out that Tory MI5 plant Starmer and his policies as Tory, she was right. They cunts get to feather their nests, he wants to allow them to keep their feathers and cut services to working class people. I fucking detest that ****. Labour, you are traitors to the people who founded you to look after our interests. This election is probably the worst I have ever witnessed.
We have a Tory lite shambles of cowards.
He won’t raise taxes, so that means across every aspect of working class people’s lives, we pay for those incompetent lying Tory scum.
So, fuck you Starmer. I hope your battle bus runs you over, you utter ****.
Do you honestly think he'll last that long?On a serious note, perhaps you should judge him after 5 years of power, not a pre election campaign?
YesDo you honestly think he'll last that long?