MaizieD
I'm afraid Labour's achievements are minimal and are affecting fewer people than those who wanted change.
Look at the nonsensical refusal to nationalise the failing water companies, deregulating finance when we all know what happened last time. Refusal to lift the 2 child benefit cap, keeping children in poverty. Inability to do anything about excessive charges for energy. Refusal to implement progressive taxation for the wealthy, apart from a few gestures, such as VAT on private schools. And didn't they row back on taxing non doms?
They're very disappointing. and nowhere near 'socialist'
Then again MaizieD, this from Kevin Maguire in The Mirror:
“Imagine if we had a UK Government reviving an ailing NHS, raising the minimum wage well above inflation, introducing breakfast clubs and giving free school meals to 500,000 more children.
One that was devising much improved new job rights, planning a huge house-building drive, bringing a fragmented rail industry back into public ownership, overseeing a green energy revolution to safeguard supplies and prices while investing heavily to guarantee steel production in Scunthorpe and Port Talbot.
Ministers committed to opening centres in every local authority to give all kids a better start in life and, finally, negotiate and implement concrete plans to deter and deal with small boat crossings where Rwanda failed expensively and disastrously.
A Cabinet consigning dinosaur Tory hereditary peers to the dustbin of history and a Prime Minister resetting relations with the rest of Europe to boost trade and avoid long passport queues.
You’d not be an excessively enthusiastic Pollyanna should you recognise that we have that UK Government but you’d also not be alone if you’d need to be Miss Marple to detect it.”
The more we criticise this government, the more we push people towards Reform. I’m not suggesting we don’t hold Labour to account but let’s be even handed and recognise what they’ve achieved in just one year!
