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.