In The Event Of A Labour Victory

[emmie]

can Corbyn and his cohorts make good on all their promises. I don't want them to win by the way.

[naomi24]

No. It's a load of pie in the sky..... and that's putting it politely.

[Baldric]

//In The Event Of A Labour Victory// . . . .

. . . . would the last sane person to leave the Country turn the lights out please?

[Bazile]

In The Event Of the Conservative win can May and her cohorts make good on all their promises ?

[emmie]

they have promised a lot, are they capable of governing and looking after the nations people, businesses?

[douglas9401]

Serial liars the lot of them and mostly unemployable in the real world.

Whoever wins, the first order of business will be nest feathering.

[emmie]

stranger things have happened.. a Labour victory isn't totally out of the bounds of possibility, at least according to the polls.

[anneasquith]

Whoever wins, first job is security eh ms. May ?

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, the full weight of Labourometry will descend upon us all, magic money trees will spout from the land, DA will hire a gazillion plods for £1.75 a week and all will be rosy in the garden. France and Germany will prostrate themselves at our feet for not brexiting. Donald Trump will commit hari Kari on Dave and Nelson Mandela will rise god like from his Tomb and lead us all to the promised land. The Queen will abdicate in favour of Saint Tony, who will be crowned to D. Reams latest hit in the ashes of Tory HQ. Sadly though Mikey will still have a Tory MP!

[Zacs-Master]

You forgot the Unicorn petting zoos Tora.

[emmie]

TTT
not taking this too seriously i see..

[-Talbot-]

In The Event Of A Labour Victory


I'm going to push to stay in Germany.

[ToraToraTora]

that is more or less the Labour manifesto emmie!

[Kromovaracun]

Well, a lot of Labour's commitments (like the investment bank) are supposed to be built up over two parliaments.

All of them? No, probably not. But most of the core promises they make - a 26% corporation tax, a nationalised rail service, a slight increase in tax for those earning over £85k, scrapping tuition fees were either government policy until very recently or are done perfectly effectively in other countries with comparable economies. None of these look particularly revolutionary or unrealistic to me.

I'd be very surprised if an immediate rise in minimum wage to £10/hr ends up being as practical or easy as Labour's leadership seems to think it is though. Ditto for their promises about the debt. Although Labour historically has borrowed far less than the Conservatives (and paid off more debt - the idea that Labour has always been the party of borrowing is a myth), I really don't think they would inheriting a situation where that is possible alongside some of their other commitments.

So, some of them yes. All of them no.

[dannyk13]

// a slight increase in tax for those earning over £85k, //
40 % rising to 50% for those earning £123,000 or more.

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

/// and all will be rosy in the
garden. ///

It won't because under Labour's Garden Tax' most of us won't be able to own one.

[ToraToraTora]

I think Jezza has a lot of these seeds:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Money-Tree-Hummels-Sunset-Succulent-Crassula-ovata-in-a-1L-14cm-pot-/332221824753

[Kromovaracun]

Tell me 3T, is it a coincidence that all your contributions to AB just so happen to parrot exactly whatever the Tory Party's slogan of the day is?

"Strong and Stable"
"Magic Money Tree"

etc etc.

What's the matter? Can't you write your own opinions?

[Jackdaw33]

In the event of a Labour victory I have a bottle of whisky and a full bottle of paracetamol at hand.

[mikey4444]

I echo Kromo's above.

[ToraToraTora]

have a search kromo, I have never typed "strong and stable", ever.