How Will Labour Fund These Measures?

[anotheoldgit]

I have just received a leaflet from UNITE the union setting out what Labour will do, if they are elected.
What they don't say is, where are they going to get the money from to fund these following pledges?

REBUILDING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

/// Labour will not just end the cuts but also ensure our public services are properly funded, bring privatised services back into public hands and invest £250 billion in rebuilding our country. ///

REAL ACTION TO TACKLE THE HOUSING CRISIS.

/// Labour will build at least a million new homes, with half of them council homes, introduce private rent controls to stop spiralling costs and take action to end homelessness. ///

EDUCATION FOR ALL.

/// Labour will end the cuts to school budgets, provide free school meals for all primary-age children, get class sizes to under 30 for all 5, 6 and 7 year olds and provide quality apprenticeships.

SAFE COMMUNITIES.

/// An extra 10,000 police officers on our streets and safeguarding our youth services. ///

ENDING THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS.

/// A £10 an hour minimum wage for all, scrapping the public sector pay cap and stopping the roll out of Universal Credit. ///
LEN Mc CLUSKEY
General Secretary.

You have to have a laugh, don't you?

[Old_Geezer]

No deal is still an option no matter what parliament expresses a preference on. As soon as the EU elite stop finding it hilarious to grant extensions and prolong the uncertainty, then we leave without a deal on the last day of whatever the last extension agreed.

[david small]

You lost me with “keeping their electoral promises “

[Canary42]

/// they know there are lots of guillible people around ///

Are these the same gullible people who believed the EU contributions would be re-allocated into the NHS, so voted Brexit.

[fender62]

labour give out blank cheques, fill in what you think is fair, cons give out cheques with a proviso...

[New Judge]

//a "no deal" Brexit, which is what Gulliver was referring, is not only scrapped, but legislated against.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/16/section/1/enacted //

The legislation you quote does not prevent a "No Deal" Brexit, mushroom. If you read it you will see it is quite short and straightforward. It provided for Parliament to instruct the PM to seek an extension to A50 to a date to be determined by Parliament. It was designed to avoid "No Deal" occurring by default on April 12th (which it would have done in the very unlikely event that Mrs May had not been minded to request an extension of her own volition).

No Deal is again the default if an agreement is not reached by 31st October and similar legislation will have to be passed by Parliament if whoever is in charge of the country then declines to ask for yet another extension.

[fender62]

New Judge, do we still live in democracy, fear we do not.

[weecalf]

If the tories said it would it sound better ?

[Theland]

Did not Alastair Darling borrow £500 billion to bail out the banks?

[retrocop]

Remind me who flogged off our Gold reserves at knockdown prices. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time. Gawd help us.

[Theland]

Tories Black Wednesday? Trust them?

[Deskdiary]

How will they fund it? The same way they always have.

The will borrow at will and then go after the low-hanging fruit of the taxpayer: specifically the taxpayers they despise - those that have done reasonably well in life and who are already shouldering most of the tax burden.

Let's not forget the clown Corbyn and his invective spitting insane shadow chancellor consider anybody earning over £80,000 to be rich (even though Corbyn, on £140k, stated he isn't rich - natch) and therefore ripe for squeezing even more money from.

£80,000 is a healthy income, but it certainly does not make that person 'rich'.

[fiction-factory]

>Did not Alastair Darling borrow £500 billion to bail out the banks?
No, it was to ensure the stability of our financial system following events that were largely due to issues outside the UK's system- eg US prime mortgages. Are you sugesting there was an alternative Theland? I didn't vote for Labour then (although I do quite like AD) but I'm sure a Tory chancellor would have done the same

[gulliver1]

Theland 22.13 " Tories Black Wednesday " Is that the Day it cost The UK something like £3.4 billion under a Tory Government ?.

[anotheoldgit]

Canary42

/// Are these the same gullible people who believed the EU contributions would be re-allocated into the NHS, so voted Brexit. ///

Not that old chestnut again, they never said that the EU contributions would be re-allocated into the NHS, it was just a suggestion where the money could be spent.

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ad_222788322.jpg?quality=90&strip=all

[gulliver1]

10 .02 who are " THEY " in "they never said" ?.

[anotheoldgit]

gulliver1

Well those who worded the bus banner.

But Boris Johnson seems to have taken the flack from the 'Remainers'.

[gulliver1]

Well, Boris did fund the Bus , and he had the banner on the side printed, so I guess its Boris who told the PORKIES,

[youngmafbog]

No one told Porkies.

Some thicko's couldnt read and understand properly though.

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps some haven't bothered to view the photo of the bus, or can't read, or fail to understand if they can. So I will have another go, these are the words on the buses banner.

WE SEND THE EU 350 MILLION A WEEK LETS FUND OUR NHS INSTEAD.

VOTE LEAVE

LETS TAKE BACK CONTROL.
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"Well we did, but we are still under their control 3 years later".