Travis_Bickle £28bn per annum green pledge until 2030 and a £3bn green steel fund, scrapping of business rates to address online retailers avoiding paying their way, on overseas buying up , remove private schools status, boosting funding in in schools, expanding careers to include matters, ‘national care service’ to the NHS, restoring neighbourhood policing, of power to . I accept many of those aren’t the most exciting or headline grabbing but with of Brexit and Covid still to be felt and a long way from , that’s no surprise.
Don’t forget, Blair won in ’97 on a manifesto that said very little.
Sounds like glossing over the cracks and throwing in a few vague promises to gild the lily.
Like what the fuck is "restoring neighbourhood policing"? I would guess in reality it's asking Chief Constables to get the troops to walk down the high street once or twice when the sun's out. And I'd wager "Regression of power" is shorthand for council tax hikes.
I must admit that I do like the scrapping business rates idea. 10 years too late, probably, but it sounds like joined up thinking.
But still nothing earth shaking. Apart from a few tweaks it's very much business as normal come the next change of government. Nothing about the big choices. Nothing about voting reform, restructuring politics in general, ending housing shortage and house price insanity or ending the failed war on drugs. It's just a nice safe labour wish list - the political equivalent of a button up jumper and a Werthers Original by the fire.