Posted on 05/16/2024 10:12:45 AM PDT by RandFan
Sir Keir Starmer has set out what Labour would do first if it wins this year's general election.
The Labour leader unveiled a pledge card with six key policies, including delivering "economic stability" and providing 40,000 more hospital appointments each week.
Some of the pledges are more modest in scale than the five "national missions" Sir Keir announced last year.
But he said they were the "first steps" towards Labour's bigger plans.
Sir Keir's five missions include making the UK the fastest-growing major economy by the end of a first Labour term in government and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
Speaking at an event in Essex, he rejected claims the party had scaled back its ambitions as an election approached, saying the party had a "big, bold plan" but "we need first steps".
The six "first steps" are:
• Sticking to tough spending rules in order to deliver economic stability
• Setting up Great British Energy, a publicly owned clean power energy company
• Cutting NHS waiting lists by providing 40,000 more appointments each week - funded by tackling tax avoidance and non-dom loopholes.
• Launching a border security command to stop the gangs arranging small boat crossings
• Providing more neighbourhood police officers to reduce antisocial behaviour and introduced new penalties for offenders
• Recruiting 6,500 teachers, paid for through ending tax breaks for private schools.
Pledges on healthcare, policing and teaching only apply to England as powers over these matters are devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Labour will make separate policy pledges for Scotland and Wales.
Sir Keir said the steps were about looking "the public in the eye" with a "down payment" on what the party would offer the country.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between what he's offering and the Tories in power (CINOs).
Probably the most boring election ever with two uninspiring "leaders".
— “fundamentally change the country” 🙄Although what does this mean?
It is just an empty political phrase
Labor Party Agenda?
Totally destroy what remains of the UK.
Just like our #ComDems, except on steroids.
“— “fundamentally change the country” 🙄Although what does this mean?
It is just an empty political phrase”
It meant a lot when Obama said it in 2008. He and his surrogate Joe Biden have delivered on the promise to fundamentally change the United States politically, socially, culturally, demographically and economically.
It’s a case of one of them killing you more slowly than the other. That’s how I’d sum it up
What a choice....
We are in danger of moving where there are in the UK.
Texas will not go there. Nor will 1/2 of the US States.
If DC decides they don’t like it? They can pound sand.
“making the UK the fastest-growing major economy by the end of a first Labour term in government and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030.”
completely diametric policies: you can have one or the other, but not both ...
Bring in even more Asians?
I can’t really believe that it really matter who the UK elects. They either get a Tory globalist, WEF, Ukraine loving, covid and climate scamming, free-speech hating, moslem loving, green, America hating government.
Or, with labor, they get a globalist, WEF, Ukraine loving, covid and climate scamming, free-speech hating moslem loving, green, America hating government.
“and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030”
Tired of hearing this term. NET ZERO DOES NOT EXIST. It’s feel good marketing to give greenies warm and fuzzies.
The UK “conservatives” killed England when Labor takes over they will salt the ground so it can never grow back.
The UK “conservatives” killed England when Labor takes over they will salt the ground so it can never grow back.
“completely diametric policies: you can have one or the other, but not both ...”
Yeah, I saw that too. Unless they do what Puppet Biden is doing, i.e. printing $7 trillion out of thin air and flooding the country with British pounds. They will claim it is a great economy while forcing everyone to pay triple cost for everything, especially energy.
Particularly evil considering how that hits the elderly and pensioners hardest i.e sky high energy bills
Sooner or later people will wake up. I hope so.
There are no actual conservatives in British politics. Just various forms of totalitarian socialists.
Likely True.
Actually Bureaucraps killed England.
They have nursed those “educated” arrogant freaks for past 150 years.
Our “higher” education universities are right behind them now.
It’s all unicorn farts and rainbows. No concrete actions that they can be judged to have not accomplished.
Contrary to popular opinion, Britain has always been hostile to freedom. It was a pure monarchy, that eventually had to somewhat share power with the richest nobility within that system.
They didn’t gain anything like a vote until 1867, and later in the 1880s when land ownership requirements were slightly lowered.
Over half of the British soldiers in WWI did not have the right to vote.
They have no constitution and have never had an enforceable right to free speech.
It’s amazing people think of them as some sort of bastion of freedom.
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