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?

[Zacs-Master]

'they never said that the EU contributions would be re-allocated into the NHS, it was just a suggestion'

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

Seems pretty clear to me.

[Deskdiary]

^^^Quite.

I'm going to be generous and say that those that didn't 'get it' were wilfully not getting it, otherwise it's quite concerning.

[dannyk13]

For anybody in any doubt the slogan did not say that all of the money should go to the NHS.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/01/16/leave-campaign-bus-claim-britain-will-save-350m-week-brexit/

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master
Read into it whatever suits your agenda, but it was still just a suggestion.

[Zacs-Master]

I've not read anything 'into' it, I've just read the words that were written, which clearly indicates that the savings would go (partly) to fund the NHS. There's is no 'suggestion'.

[ToraToraTora]

still banging on about the bus, learn English me old china, it's a statement followed by a suggestion. Eg "we spend £350m a week on jelly, let's try and nail some to the wall" - geddit? of course you don't!

[Zacs-Master]

Your idea of a suggestion must be different to mine. If it were a suggestion, it would have read 'we [i]could/shouldquote[ fund the NHS' whereas it clearly says [i]lets]. No ambiguity there.

[ToraToraTora]

"Let's" is a suggestion, ie let's go down the pub. It's a suggestion not a statement of intent. Gawd I sense another jelly nailing session!

[Zacs-Master]

Nah.

[Ryzen]

No ambiguity here....Planes WILL fall out of the sky....3 million jobs WILL go....the City WILL decamp to Frankfurt....now,where did I put those nails :-)

[Togo]

There are two places only where Socialism will work. In Heaven where it is not needed and Hell where they already have it.

Winston Churchill.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Your idea of a suggestion must be different to mine. If it were a suggestion, it would have read 'we could or should[i fund the NHS' whereas it clearly say [i]lets]. No ambiguity there.//

A less impressive than usual contribution by last year's Sneer of the Year to retain his title.

Nice to see the subjunctive/conditional employed, however. Pedantic point, however: different from.

[Spicerack]

Stop arguing.
Let's stop arguing.
Sorry, Zacs. You're wrong again.
Lucky you're used to it, innit?