Labour’s manifesto calls for massive spending increases for health care, social programs, infrastructure and education. The party also wants to nationalize huge parts of the economy, including energy suppliers, railway operators, the Royal Mail – which was privatized in 2013 – water companies and the internet arm of telecom giant BT. A Labour government would also force companies to give employees a 10-per-cent ownership stake, and any publicly traded company that fails to combat climate change would be delisted from the stock exchange, according to the manifesto. The party also plans a host of giveaways, including free broadband for everyone, free basic dental care, free postsecondary education and a program to upgrade every home to “the highest energy-efficiency standards.”
This just reads like right-wing media dross to me.
I'm a Canuck so I only have an outsider's view, but this is what I based my comment on. Big things rarely ever happen at once. Really change takes time and either finesse or catastrophe. It just felt to me that what Labour was suggesting was too big a step for the ave. citizen to swallow. I don't know how effective terming the platform 'radical' could be in the conservative U.K. HE might have well as used the word communist to the average joe or joelene.
There's so much wrong with this, so I'll it one piece at a time.
Big things rarely happen at once - the privatisation of service Labour proposed to return to public control, happened within one term of a Tory Government. If it is acceptable for the policy to go one way quickly, then it is acceptable to go the other way.
Change takes time - this is a meaningless phrase, as what is meant by "time" is not defined.
It just felt to me that what Labour was suggesting was too big a step for the ave. citizen to swallow - judging by the substantial % share of the vote Labour got, that's clearly not the case. The right wing media and brexit did for Labour this time round. They can certainly build on these policies to attract more voters in the future. If they roll back to the middle ground, they will lose the considerable youth vote they gained since 2015.
HE might have well as used the word communist to the average joe or joelene. - this is precisely what the right-wing media did in their McCarthy-esque hatchet job.