Labour is consulting members on policy so here are a few ideas
The excuses man: no doubt Keir Starmer is already looking for excuses to get out of adopting the common-sense policies his party members want.
Blairgruppenfuhrer Starmer is launching a national review of Labour Party policy and is seeking input from his (remaining) party members.
This is actually a good idea – although This Writer has a few doubts about whether he will adopt the policies that have the most support or will simply cherry-pick whatever suits his own extremely right-wing opinions.
If you are (still) a Labour Party member and have been asked to take part in this consultation – but are struggling to put your ideas into words – feel free to dip into the following. It’s not an exhaustive list but I think it’s a good start:
General policy
Renationalisation of the NHS.
Nationalisation of the electricity, water and railway companies.
End to the sanctions system and a proper welfare benefit to be given to the sick, disabled and unemployed so they can afford to eat, heat their homes and live with dignity.
Restoration of union strength so they can fight real exploitation by big business.
End of precarity and zero hours contracts.
Proper help for small and medium-sized businesses, as these employ more people, serve their local communities better and add needed competition and commercial variety to communities.
End the ban on council housing and start building them and proper affordable homes.
Proper support for rural communities, including better bus services, affordable homes for locals, and the restoration of village shops to keep them living communities.
Set up a workers’ chamber in parliament to counteract the domination of millionaires. This to be composed of working people elected by working people.
Tax
End corporate tax havens.
Tighten the non-dom tax laws so that the people claiming it really do live abroad.
Education
Take academy schools back under state control because they are failing.
Racism
Re-admit and make formal apology to the vast number of decent Labour party members falsely accused and smeared as anti-Semites. Many of these were Jewish, which indicates a strain of anti-Semitism in their accusers.
Labour also needs to reconnect with its traditional Black and Asian supporters. It thus needs to show that it takes tackling racism seriously. This can be done simply by pursuing traditional Labour anti-racist policies without taking on the excesses of Critical Race Theory.
Foreign Policy
No more wars in the Middle East. These have failed, and were never more anything than an excuse to spread western geopolitical power by invading and looting these countries. We have destroyed nations like Libya and Iraq and left sectarian violence, destruction and chaos. These wars contributed massively to the refugee crisis and created the conditions for the emergence of ISIS. They are also the real reasons the peoples of the Middle East despise us. It has nothing to do with any innate quality of Islam.
End arms sales to foreign despots and butchers. This should include Israel, until they withdraw from Palestine and make a just, democratic peace with them.
I know; it’s less a list than a mini-manifesto. But these are great ideas.
What would you propose to give the UK a better future than it’s currently facing?
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It’s not an exhaustive list but I think it’s a good start:
General policy (additional ideas)
British overseas pensioners? (556,000) They’ve been shafted for over 70 years by Labour and Tories.
My pension frozen since 2015. Some of us (still living) for nearly 20 years. No Socialist MP supports us (except Jeremy no longer a Labour MP)..
Pensioners: 2.1 million living in poverty (need more help)
Children: 4.5 million living in poverty (need more help)
Return stolen gold to Venezuela
Of course if JC had won the election and was PM all the above would have been addressed.
We would also be pressuring Europe to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine not spending billions of pounds on more weapons to prolong an unwinnable war.
it’s a trap to find the last remaining socialist and then boot them out! PS if you are a socialist then why are you still a member?!
The 2017 manifesto had a full list.
Re-Nationalise public essential utilities like gas, electric and water, ringfencee the NHS from private interests and take overs of services, protect the Nhs from overcharging by big pharma, enshrine HUMAN RIGHTS and Employment Rights on statute, defend the poorest of society, increase pensions, tax the well off and absurdly rich, tax overseas countries or deny them commerce on British soil should they refuse….basicly adopt socialist policies
Looking forwards to the Future rather than reversing back into the past would be a favourite for me.
Age of marriage and Imperial Measures should not be revived but rather stay in the 70s where they belong, also remembering that there’s a reason why “they don’t build them like that any more”
Nostalgia is definitely not what it used to be !