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Do people who voted Labour know what they really voted for?

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TooTiredToTidy · 25/06/2017 20:06

Their slogan was 'For the Many not the Few' -- everyone thinks Labour are there to help the most disadvantaged in the UK. But their manifesto failed to reverse all the Tory welfare cuts to the poorest and instead bought youth votes with an expensive promise to cut tuition fees and suggested they'd backpay students them - which, because it's mainly the middle classes who send their kids to Uni is effectively a tax break for the middle classes.

The IFS, a highly respected independent Economic think tank crunched the numbers and showed that Labour's manifesto failed to help the 0-60% poorest earners in this country and instead help the 60-90% highest earners.

Then Corbyn is at Glastonbury, which you can only afford if you're pretty damn loaded, predominantly white and middle class being lauded as a saviour for the downtrodden and vulnerable.

Then don't start me on the harm their Brexit stance - ending Freedom of Movement and effectively being out of the Single Market & Customs Union - will do to the UK, our economy and the future of all these hopeful youths who gave him their vote.

It's shameless!!

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TheaSaurass · 29/06/2017 20:52

cdtaylornats.

Re Grenfell Tower and the cladding problem as a whole, there is still much to 'uncover'.

As was pointed pointed out in PMQT, that the cladding of tower blocks began under the Blair government, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order was passed by a Labour government in 2005, and the practice of routine fire-service inspections ended in 2006.

Why was that, more jobs and responsibilities for councils everywhere, who collectively didn't, or couldn't (as didn't have the expertise), to spot a fire danger.

Anyway, early days, but was made party political, and responsibility/blame has to be allocated.

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