Are Labour's economic plans viable? Andrew Neil analyses every promise
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Published 2024-06-26
Andrew Neil investigates Labour’s economic reforms and their claim they will create over 600,000 new well-paid jobs.
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All Comments (21)
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UK running 100bn pound deficit each year. Neither party has any plans to cut this just spend, spend, spend. Mad
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Workers have a right to strike, the employers have a right to fire each and every one.
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TUC leader suggesting pro business is like the fox saying they will protect the hens…why do we ask someone so bias such a question
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So you don't have to answer the phone if the boss calls you !! That will work so well in the petroleum industry, won't it? The rig is stuck at the week-end, it's costing a fortune a day, and the rig has to wait until you answer the 'phone on Monday morning. Great stuff guys !!!! Amazing workers' rights there !!! No-doubt it applies to nurses, surgeons and paramedics !!! ???
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In the 70’s the entire British coal industry had around 250 pits. It was a massive labour intensive industry with well over 200,000 employees. Are we to believe there will be six hundred thousand green jobs. What are these people smoking?
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if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. everyone will be disappointed as they always are when politicians over promise and under deliver as they always do be it left right or centre.
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The government shouldn't be subsidising billion dollar corporations like TATA steel regardless of the impact on the jobs. People need to move from unproductive to productive sectors of the economy.
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Not everybody can be an MP with job security for life, in many northern labour seats...
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I don't think it's helpful to say 900,000 children extra in poverty. It isn't poverty. Relative poverty is an invented device based on median income which doesn't mean anything in terms of housing, food, security, etc. Children who live in safe houses with plenty to eat should not be described as living in poverty. All it means is the gap between rich and poor is widening, not that the poor are getting poorer.
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Great questions on oil and gas and labour destroying a key British industry
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There maybe trouble ahead and remembering the Labour governments of the 70's so looks like we are going back to flares and rock glam! and strikes and power cuts, looking forward to it already!
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oh dear, the money printers could soon be on strike
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Back to the 1970's
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I am no Labour supporter but this is the same man that interviewed Corbyn about payments to WASPI women befoew the last election. He tore Corbyn apart over the costs. 1 Week later we had Boris and 2 months later the pandemic. We then went on to spend hundreds of billions of £. Great stuff.
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GPs across England will start capping the number of patients they are willing to see, after the British Medical Association (BMA) announced an immediate work-to-rule action. The BMA has told its members they can limit appointments to 25 a day – some GPs see more than 40 at times - in a dispute over funding levels.
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Brilliant interview by Neil
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Free movement from the European Union was a wetdream for big business and the oil 🛢 for the gig economy 😢
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The problem with zero hours contracts is just corporate greed. As it stands about 9/10 of contracts nowadays are zero hour contracts "based" upon a salary of ££. Its the employers that they are being taken away from. If you cant provide guranteed hours then you have a falable business model.
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Delusion, obfuscation & a remarkable absence of data. It's going to be a wild ride during which I suspect many of these poeple will do rather well at the expense of those they say they pander to.
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Rail strikes by our wonderful unions have cost hospitality £500 million this year alone.
