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SunshineGirl Well, that's if you believe the majority of the UK media, who seem to think that a Labour government is an affront to nature.
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Labour has just increased the minimum wage for thousands maybe millions of people.
Labour cannot build affordable housing overnight; it can and should bring in a Rent Act to control private landlords whose greed has gone through the roof. No doubt that move would be attacked as 'socialism', an 'assault on entrepreneurs' etc.
Labour has negotiated with doctors. That's been criticised too though no doubt if doctors were out on strike, there would be scary headlines about Labour bringing the NHS to a halt.
The NHS is already seeing more patients, something to celebrate.
The increase in NI for small businesses does NOT apply to all businesses; the same with the farmers - it will only apply to the wealthier farmers. Small businesses may have to absorb some losses. The disaster scenario being painted will not occur. They won't all close just as all the billionaires won't go overseas.
Yes, Winter Fuel Allowance was an own goal. Retaining the 2-child cap is not smart either. The shivering elderly, the starving young - just missing the trifecta which would have been obtained with cruelty to furry animals.
This Labour party is not going to be visionary and daring. Sadly, it's also not tackling the wealth gap by taking on the mega-rich. So far at least. If it can get most things balanced, it will be time for the visionary younger activists to move into the Houses of Parliament - perhaps they can take over the House of Lords space once the anachronistic inheritors of privilege are shooed out and back to their (unearned, inherited) huge estates, grand houses and farms. And let's bring in brilliant experienced minds across all fields, people like Attenborough and Goodall to advise on existential issues.
It's all looking better a few months in than it did under the Tory Toffs Corruption Party. So funny hearing Johnson chiming in from his moated splendour. Have people really forgotten so quickly?
