I have just reread the Labour Party Manifesto. I think it is the best manifesto I have ever read. There are so many great policies and commitments. It highlights for me what a total mess the Tories have made of things. They have cut and destroyed many great things and introduced privatisation in order to provide more profits for the wealthy. At the same time they have given tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations. It is not difficult to see who they represent.
The Labour Party is about fairness.
Studying the Manifesto this becomes obvious.
I have picked out the bits I particularly liked:
1. Support the many not the few
2. Investment in infrastructure
3. Support of renewables
4. Support tidal lagoons
5. Protection of the environment
6. Address the gender pay gap
7. Top 5% to contribute more tax
8. Higher corporation taxes
9. Clamp down on tax avoidance
10. Fair treatment of regions
11. HS2 into Leeds, Manchester and Scotland
12. Crossrail for the North
13. Superfast Broadband
14. Support of Industry
15. Reduce boardroom pay with 20:1 gap between high and low pay
16. Regional development banks
17. Amend company laws to protect workers and pensions (not just shareholders)
18. Renationalise rail, energy, water and royal mail
19. Insulate homes
20. Interest free loans to improve properties
21. Ban fracking
22. Support carbon capture and storage
23. Not scapegoat immigrants
24. Fair immigration rules
25. Protect those already working here
26. Stop overseas only recruitment
27. Welcome international students
28. Unrestricted trade with the EU
29. Commitment to lifelong learning
30. Not support Grammar Schools or Free Schools
31. Not to push academies
32. Invest in education
33. Introduce fair pay for teachers and reverse cuts
34. Put creativity back at the heart of the curriculum
35. Address teacher workload issue
36. Childcare support for early years
37. Support apprenticeships
38. Reintroduce student maintenance grants
39. Abolish University tuition fees
40. Address Workers’ rights
41. Ban zero hours contracts
42. Legislate to avoid undercutting of pay from abroad
43. Repeal Trade Union act
44. Raise minimum wage
45. End public sector pay cap for Schools, NHS, Social Services, Police, Fire Fighters, Armed Forces and Council Workers
46. Ban unpaid internships (favouring the wealthy)
47. Double paid paternity leave
48. Guarantee Winter fuel and bus passes for pensioners
49. Scrap the bedroom tax
50. Support for the disabled
51. Build council housing and housing association housing to ease housing shortage
52. Help first-time house buyers
53. Remove government restrictions for councils to build houses
54. National plan to end rough sleeping
55. Properly resource the NHS
56. Increase NHS spending by £30 Billion
57. Guarantee the rights of EU workers in the NHS
58. Reverse privatisation in the NHS
59. Address the cuts to Social Care
60. Reverse the damage done to Mental Health Services
61. Recruit 10,000 more police for community work
62. Maintain intelligence partnerships with the EU
63. Recruit 500 more border guards
64. Recruit 3000 new firefighters
65. Retain the Human Rights act
66. Address the erosion of our Justice System
67. Recruit 3000 new prison officers
68. No new private prisons
69. Increase funding to local government
70. End cuts to Youth services
71. End Post Office closures
72. Set up a Post Office bank
73. Protect bees by banning neonicotinoids
74. Commit to high animal welfare standards
75. Maintain bans on fox hunting, hare coursing and badger culling
76. End cuts for libraries, art galleries and museums
77. Support small music venues
78. Increase Armed Forces spending
What is not to like?
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