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G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is so frustrating to see Labour being compared to Tories. Frankly it just shows when someone hasn’t been looking at the news.

  • nationalising trains
  • (sort of) nationalising steel
  • nationalising a part of our energy sector
  • bringing the NHS back under direct public control
  • ending various tax-dodging loopholes, such as the IHT for farmers and non-dom taxes
  • windfall tax on energy companies
  • charging VAT on private schooling
  • expanding free childcare
  • restarting SureStart (albeit under a different name)
  • expanding free school meals
  • expanding school breakfast clubs
  • guaranteeing jobs for young people (announced this morning)
  • big increases to the minimum wage, especially for the youngest
  • expansion of workers rights
  • expansion of renters rights
  • big increase in infrastructure investment, particularly for renewables
  • actually engaging with France over surging illegal immigration rather than spending billions on a Rwanda plan that won’t work and would send people somewhere we know to be unsafe

  That’s just off the top of my head.

  Not agreeing with XYX Labour action is fine. You will never ever have a government you universally agree with. But to look at the current lot and say they’re the same as the Tories is simply uninformed.

  I can’t believe Reform have been having such an easy time pushing such a blatantly false narrative.

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  • G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    nationalising trains

    Sorry, but no, they haven’t. Some franchies expired and returned to state ownership, which was a Tory policy and several TOC’s reverted under them.

    sort of) nationalising steel

    No they haven’t.

    nationalising a part of our energy sector

    Again, no they haven’t, GB Energy whatever the fuck it actually is, is not nationalising energy.

    If they had actually done those things, then yes they might be in the win column.

    bringing the NHS back under direct public control

    Total vague nonsense, how’s outcomes doing? No real change?

    ending various tax-dodging loopholes, such as the IHT for farmers and non-dom taxes

    They chickened out on that and for me, it’s not nearly enough and exactly shows the problem with Keir Starmer and his boring pussy arsed government. IHT should be like 100% over a certain amount, there should be no generational wealth. He should be making that case and it would certainly set him apart from Farage and company.

    windfall tax on energy companies

    Probably the first one we can unambiguously say ‘ok’ on… Though of course, not really because the energy windfall tax was a Tory policy from 2022 and all they did was increase the rate from 25% to 28%.

    I really cannot be arsed to go though the rest, but suffice to say.

    Bullshit mate.

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