LABOUR'S MANIFESTO IS A THROW-BACK TO 1983 LABOUR

According to the Guardian this morning, Labour is braced for a battle over the final version of the party’s manifesto at a summit for its most senior figures on Thursday after a draft was leaked overnight.


Whilst a draft of the document appears to set out the most left-wing election platform for decades, amounting to his 'wish list' for Labour's union paymasters, as strange as it may be, there are a few items in this Labour Party manifesto, which would resonate with the millions of commuters who are being overcharged for a poor rail service each day and those people who have been left behind in the housing market and are unable to get onto the housing ladder.

Leaked Labour manifesto reveals plans to renationalise railways and Royal Mail

Includes plans for a £6billion tax raid on people with salaries of £80,000-plus

Parts of Jeremy's 2017 manifesto have the hallmarks of mass renationalisation and forcing of Councils to build 100,000 homes for social rent. Andrew Gwynne, the party’s elections chief, said the package of reforms, which includes radical plans to take parts of Britain’s energy industry back into public ownership alongside the railways and the Royal Mail, would be “genuinely transformational”.

The ELEPHANT in the room as usual is........ HOW WILL ALL THIS BE PAID FOR?

So when average Mr or Mrs Bloggs (UK Citizens) hear Tim Farron of Liberal Democrats saying, "Britain should take 50,000 more Syrian refugees from camps in the region, which will only cost circa £4.3bn investment, which the party believe is worth the investment",  they must think that these politicians have totally lost the plot.

Sadly, the cost of these things hardly factor into the thinking of the voting public, because over the last 4 decades, most of the enlightened UK Citizens have come to realise that it either boild down to borrowing or raising taxes, which ALL the parties claim in their manifesto's not to do, yet as soon as they are in the halls of power, that is exactly what they do.

According to the Daily Mail, among the most striking measures in the document are:

• A refusal to commit to cutting immigration levels, and removing rules that new arrivals must have enough money to support themselves;
• Ruling out leaving the European Union without a deal, weakening Britain's negotiating hand and suggesting Brexit might never happen;
• Trident will be renewed but there will be a 'full' defence review, and the manifesto bows to Mr Corbyn's unilateralist views by making clear a Labour PM would not deploy them; 
• A slew of huge spending commitments including scrapping moves to push the state pension age beyond 66, scrapping university tuition fees, £6billion a year more for the NHS, £250billion on infrastructure.
• Rent caps for the first time since the 1970s, abolition of laws limiting strikes, and pay caps to stop bosses earning more than 20 times the lowest salary at their firm; 
• A promise to protect the 'nomadic way of life' and 'end discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities'; 

Even though Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell will claim the final manifesto will be 'fully costed' at first glance even from a civilian in rented accomodation it will be apparent that with new spending pledges running into hundreds of billions of pounds, it surely means that Labour would embark on a gigantic borrowing spree, as well as levying swingeing taxes on business and the middle classes.

 

IN CONCLUSION

It is clear that Jeremy Corbyn is a red-blooded socialist, which sadly does not bode well for him because not only has every socialist country failed numerous times, Jeremy is not able to bring his own party with him to his journey back into the heady days of the 1983 39-page manifesto from Michael Foot.

If Jeremy were really in touch with the UK Citizens at all levels of society, he would learn that some of his points in the manifesto did indeed resonate with many, but sadly there are some points like the 'nomadic way of life' and 'end discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities' will stick in their craw because of the tortology this statement becomes when a check with reality is made.

That said, the Conservatives could take some tips from a few of his points, such as the threat of our essential Utility operations, (Gas, Electricity, Water, Railways) being in the hands of unscrupulous foreign corporations. This threat is a reality that could one day come to hurt the UK, especially post BREXIT, notwithstanding the billions in profits that are extracted from the UK every year.

So, a message to the Conservatives, instead of backing and partaking in fox hunting, why not consider these external threats to the UK and not scoff at Jeremy over your english tea later today.