Should I vote Labour Mark 11

Immigration

Recognises that the economy needs immigration..

Wants to see fair and managed immigration. Scrap the £18500 income threshold that has lead to the separation of thousands of families.
Migrant impact fund to be established. This has been a long standing Labour commitment (Brown) The Tories say they will match it.

Railways.

Repeal the Railways Act 1993.

"As franchises expire" avoids the problem of buying out existing contracts. There are currently 15 rail franchises in place. These will all eventually run out over between 7-22 years.

60% of public back the idea.

Energy

Energy companies will be taken back into public ownership with central government control of transmission and distribution grids. There will be at least one public ally owned energy company in every region of the U.K. That is locally run.

Promises that bills will remain below £1000 pa
Current variable tariff is £1086 - so a cap is not a big stretch for the providers

Royal Mail

Tories sold it for 3.3bn when its market value was 10bn.
Labour will take it back into public ownership.

67% of voters back the re-nationalisation of RMail

Best of the rest

Fund burial fees for child burials

Plant 1 million native trees

Lower voting to 16

Free wifi in city centres and public transport

Laud inquiry into Orgreave, blacklisting and contaminated blood samples

Ban third party sale of puppies

How many votes do you think banning third party sale of puppies will get?
What about kittens?

Welfare

Scrap bedroom tax
Scrap the punitive sanctions regime and reinstate housing benefit for under 21s.
Repeal cuts in support to disabled people .

Analysis

There appears to be no plans for serious reforms to the welfare system

Health/social care

£6bn extra pa raised by increasing the top 5% of earners and increasing tax on private health insurance.

18 week maximum wait
A&E 4hrs maximum wait
Scrap NHS pay gap.
Suspend hospital closures

£8bn into social care
£1bn immediately

Analysis

The one area where extra cash really will be the answer
The BMA responded by saying the NHS needs 10bn not 6
Simply focusing on the top 5% is unlikely to bring in the money needed.

Corbyn talking about Labour Foreign policy on BBC news channel now.

Defence

Labour supports the renewal of Trident.

Suspend the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia.

Committed to a two state solution in Israel-Palestine

Housing

1000000 houses -council and association houses every year for 5 years

Building private homes will become a national infrastructure priority.

4000 homes reserved for homeless.

theconversation.com/a-beginners-guide-to-election-manifestos-and-why-they-really-matter-77576

The title should be - The shrine of Corbyn.

ww is this what's going to take over from 'should I vote labour' as I see that's reached it's limit and no more messages can be posted?

rose it is still worth reading that link though as it will apply to the Tories as well.