Does anyone else find this notion that Labour are more ‘electable’ now utterly depressing? Their policies are worse. The party is only more ‘electable’ because it has been captured by the corporate forces who hold the power, run our country, and tell the public who to vote for🚨
@JujuliaGrace 70% satisfaction with the NHS in 2010 - 24% satisfaction with the NHS in 2024. I wonder why? You risk straying into politics, and that risks diminishing the good work you do regarding our health service.
List what's wrong with @UKLabour Policies Here they are List them New Deal for Working People The Labour Party has a long and proud history of being the Party not just of working people but for working people. From day one, a Labour government will strengthen workers’ rights and make Britain work for working for people. Everyone deserves a job they can live on and build a life on, no matter who they are or what job they do. Our ambition to ensure a fair day’s pay for a day’s work is core to our values. We all deserve high-quality, secure, rewarding jobs. That is why Labour in power will secure a New Deal for Working People. It’s how we’ll make work pay. Boosting people’s income is not just the right thing for them – it is the right thing for our economy. Better pay would end the self-defeating low wage, low investment, and low productivity cycle that the country has been trapped in for the last decade. It will also help to tackle the cost of living crisis by ensuring everyone is paid enough to live on. Labour will strengthen the protections afforded to all workers by banning zero-hours contracts, ending fire and rehire, and scrapping qualifying periods for basic rights, which leave working people waiting up to two years for basic protections. This will include unfair dismissal, sick pay, and parental leave, giving working people under Labour rights at work from day one. Labour’s mission is to create more and better jobs that are closer to home, so people have the real choices that they have been denied for far too long. Our country remains riven by inequalities which Labour is focused on fixing – to ensure the working people who create our nation’s wealth get their fair share of it. Rather than stacking the odds against working parents, Labour will deliver stronger family-friendly rights. Restrictions on union activity are holding back living standards and the economy. We will update trade union legislation so it is fit for a modern economy and empower working people to collectively secure fair pay, terms and conditions. The Conservatives have failed our country, but Labour’s approach offers people real help right now and a vision for the future of work where working people enjoy dignity, gain security, receive respect, and are supported to prosper. We are ambitious for our country’s future. Together we’ll build a Britain that works for working people.  Decent work Labour will end in-work poverty Labour will introduce a genuine living wage for all adult workers Labour will use public procurement to support good work Labour will establish a Fair Pay Agreement in adult social care to raise terms and conditions across the sector Safe work Labour will bring in the ‘right to switch off’ and work autonomously Labour will update trade union legislation so it is fit for a modern economy Labour will strengthen the law to enforce workplace rights Labour will put mental health on a par with physical health in our workplaces Secure work Labour will strengthen rights and protections for workers and the self-employed Labour will ban zero hours contracts and end fire and rehire Labour will bring about stronger family-friendly rights Labour will make flexible working a day one right Fair work Labour will tackle workplace harassment Labour will give those with caring responsibilities greater protections Labour will go further and faster in closing the gender pay gap Labour will strengthen protections for working mothers labour.org.uk/wp-content/upl… labour.org.uk/missions/
Labour has a long term plan to expand opportunities Labour will spread opportunity to all parts of the country at every age and every stage. Early Years: the best start in life. Childcare is important not just because it helps parents to work, but to give every child the best possible start in life. That is why Labour will improve the quality of provision, and work with local authorities to boost the availability of childcare in places where provision is inadequate. At the same time, we will develop vital communication and maths skills early so that every child can find their voice and build the foundations for a brilliant education. School: Preparing young people for work and life. Evidence shows that improving teacher quality is the most significant factor to improving children’s outcomes. To ensure rising standards in all our schools, we will tackle the chronic staffing crisis in schools by recruiting thousands more teachers particularly in shortage subjects like science and maths. We will reform Ofsted so it gives parents better information, with a scorecard that values breadth and not just a single headline grade. At the same time, we will reform the curriculum and assessment system so that speaking skills are taken as seriously as reading and writing, creativity and problem solving are woven throughout and young people have the digital skills needed to thrive. We will tackle the attendance crisis, ensuring children enjoy and want to be in school again. We will provide the mental health support to back this up and to boost the wellbeing of young people, many of whom still suffering the effects of lockdown. We will ensure all primary children have free breakfast clubs that set them up for the day – so that no child starts the day hungry and there is a safe space to be supported with friends. Further Education and Lifelong learning. Retraining and up-skilling will need to be locally based and tailored to the needs of each community – plumbers to fit new heat pumps, engineers to lead the application of AI, solar power fitters to harness renewables. That’s why we are setting up new Technical Excellence Colleges in all parts of the country so people have the specialist skills local businesses need. And it’s why we are transforming the Apprenticeship levy to give employers the flexibility they need to train their workforce in new and relevant skills. labour.org.uk/missions/oppor…
List 30 Policies from the 2019 Manifesto @UKLabour 99Labour has a long term plan for crime Labour will be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour. Labour will put police back in towns centres and neighbourhoods to make our streets safe again, with increased patrols and 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs. There will be guaranteed police patrols in town centres, zero tolerance of anti-social behaviour and we’ll give every community a named officer they can get in touch with, to ensure a swift response to crime. We will also clamp down on shoplifting and violence against shopworkers, making it easier to take action against repeat offenders and creating a new specific offence of assault against retail workers. Tackling violence against women and girls. Labour will halve levels of violence against women and girls within a decade because everyone has the right to live free from fear. We will introduce new specialist domestic abuse workers in 999 control rooms and put specialist rape investigation units in every force across England and Wales – so that early opportunities for prevention and protection are not missed. We’ll require police forces to target dangerous repeat offenders with the tactics and tools normally reserved for counter-terror and serious organised crime investigations, to get serious perpetrators off our streets. And we’ll put specialists in the court system to support rape and domestic abuse victims and ensure that justice is done. Preventing youth crime. Labour will introduce a new ten-year Young Futures programme, bringing together services and communities to support our young people, including a new national network of Young Futures hubs, with mental health workers and youth workers, to tackle the crisis in youth mental health, to give teenagers the best start in life, and to stop the knife crime that is killing our young people. Police and criminal justice reform. Labour will rebuild public confidence in policing and the criminal justice system. We’ll turn around the collapse in the proportion of crimes solved by fast-tracking the recruitment of detectives who can solve more complex crimes like fraud, dramatically increasing the pool of prosecutors who can bring criminals to justice, and by building the prisons the Tories promised and failed to deliver. We’ll reform the police, overhauling vetting and training processes, and introducing new powers to compel failing forces to comply with recommendations from the police watchdog.
@JujuliaGrace It seems their only selling point is that they aren't the Tories, and if we don't vote for them, the Tories will get in again. I really want Labour to be better than that. So disappointed by Labour on the NHS and on Gaza.
This is the Catch 22 of Liberal Democracies: anyone offering change will be outcast by the media-political class, and anyone offering continuity exploitation on behalf of capital will be embraced. The only solution is to build a grassroots movement outside of Lib-Lab-Con and stand our ground in support of this alternative NO MATTER WHAT. This will begin at the 2024 election, when more MPs outside of the ‘big three’ will stand and win than in any other election in modern times. The end of the Duopoly begins now.
@JujuliaGrace I don’t agree with your comments, it is not helpful to NHS or Doctors or Nurses, are you suggesting we should vote for Tories ? I really don’t get it
@JujuliaGrace Absolutely! Domestically, Labour's economic and social policies are the same as the Tories, but its position on #GazaGenocide is even worse! #DontVoteLabour
@JujuliaGrace More electable to whom? Answer that and you find the reasons for who defines what electability means.