I actually think the caution is a good thing, overall. Look what happened to Theresa May’s poll lead in 2017! Absolutely terrifying prospect that could happen to Labour.
Having said that… dropping the £28bn pledge is too cautious. May got sunk by incautiously launching a new policy during the campaign. Labour’s green industrial pledge clearly isn’t damaging them in the polls, so why water it down? I don’t think it could damage them. People know Labour will spend money and we want them to do it!
In addition, despite Keir Starmer’s previous promises to abolish the Lords in a first term, it is expected to commit only to limited changes. This is likely to mean legislating only for the abolition of the remaining 91 hereditary peers.
Aren’t the hereditary peers usually the ones speaking out against bad policy from the Commons? The remaining peers are the like that Boris and others installed.
Planning reform, improved workers’ rights, closing various tax loopholes. Also, he’s still going to invest in the green thing, just not necessarily spend £28bn on it.
As to when he’s going to drop them, I guess it depends what Streeting and Reeves get a bee in their bonnet about next, as they seem to be calling the shots.
You mean the one a senior Labour MP recently said was going to be scrapped?
As to when he’s going to drop them, I guess it depends what Streeting and Reeves get a bee in their bonnet about next, as they seem to be calling the shots.
You mean the one a senior Labour MP recently said was going to be scrapped?
No one said it was going to be scrapped. As usual, your understanding of what’s going on goes as deep as the headline. I suggest reading the rest of the article, in future.
It’s pretty wild to me that such a modest investment is deemed risky with the electorate.
That said, it’s clear the sun, the mail, the express, the telegraph will be looking for the tiniest arguable removed in Labour’s armour. So to my mind, this is more telling of embarrassingly low horizon of national ambitions coupled with a very aggressively right wind media. So, I can also understand the need to appear very very fiscally restrained.
Ah I’m new to lemmy. Seems I got censored for using a word which means a weakness or gap in armour, but I guess in the right context could be a racial slur lol
If you can’t defeat this unless bucket of tory rejects that were never supposed to advance further than the back bench with policy, and have to build a “bulletproof” manifesto. Then you’ve no hope.
Unfortunately that’s the general environment with the news, and I don’t want to see another round of billboards saying “Labour want to murder your babies, kill your military, and shut down your hospitals” when talking about a modest proposal.
That’s the line Conservatives push to liberals to try and get them to not vote at all. While at the same time calling Labour dangerous radicals to rich old white people.
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