Every time I hear an announcement from Labour on the news I have a momentary doubt that maybe there was no election and the tories are still in power.
I accept financial problems need to be tackled, but why every time do they pick on those with the least money.
They are trying so hard not to be Corbyn that they seem quite unable to implement some sort of cut / tax hike to those with more money.
Or tackling all the international companies that use tax dodger to pay their fair share.
Apart from in the early days when they gave some of the more powerful unions pay increases everything is about making those at the bottom carry the load of the financial problems.
As well as, like the Tories implying that those getting aid or whatever are the problem implying somehow they are cheating the system.
When 9 times out of 10 (if not 10 out of 10) it is the system that is the problem.
Lets say they are right that too many people that dont really qualify are getting PiP (or whatever it is calle now) why are they then cutting the money people are getting instead of looking at the system that said they should get pip. (Although given the many stories about how bad the assessment process is I cant understand how any one can say too many people are getting it) So fix the system. Not punish those who didn't create and dont apply the system.
Just like the problem of asylum seekers. Those coming in boats are doing so because the UK under the Tories and still under Labour, has failed to set up application centres in different countries in Europe. ie there is no system to make applications so obviously people just try to get there. And as in fact the majority are then assessed as being genuine asylum seekers all they have done is saved money on setting up application centres, but paying out far more on temporary accommodation because what system there is in the UK is so slow, people who could be working and paying their way, just have to sit and wait.
And of course Labour and the tabloids dont mention that the real "migrant" problem is the number of people who come here to work based on accepted criteria because we dont have enough people with the right skills to fill the jobs on offer.
They could start a massive house building programme, which would create jobs and then provide much needed housing, instead of which they allow private companies to build houses that aren't the type that are needed, whilst spending zillions of £££s on temporary, over priced, shoddy private accommodation.
It is like they have been brain washed by the tories. Some how private companies will save the day.