If we look back at Corbyn’s manifesto it was comprehensively impressive and impressively comprehensive (as manifestos go).
Because he doesn’t have to be the one to find the money.
Wales raises just £4.5 billion in tax revenue. Yet, the Welsh NHS alone receives a budget of £8.5 billion (and is still the most poorly run of all UK governments). That’s before the money for everything else is added up (education, welfare etc).
I suppose they’ll be expecting the English tax payer to pay for all of this?
Devolved nations are permitted to have sound policies, but we don’t get to govern ourselves, so we get told anyone with policies other than austerity and privatisation for England is unelectable.
Something along the lines of the 2017 manifesto is what I’d like to see Labour return to in the future.
Yes because Drakeford is real Labour. Good luck seeing something like this in Union-wide politics though. Half of the PLP actively worked to undermine it in 2017, and then in 2019 they put forward a completely incoherent Brexit policy at a single issue election.
One of the few aspects where Drakeford holds any appeal to me. Scotland have proven that their 20 pound a week works in lifting people out of poverty. UBI is proven to work
Yes because they are popular ideas, especially in Wales where people are on average more left leaning.
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If we look back at Corbyn’s manifesto it was comprehensively impressive and impressively comprehensive (as manifestos go).
Because he doesn’t have to be the one to find the money.
Wales raises just £4.5 billion in tax revenue. Yet, the Welsh NHS alone receives a budget of £8.5 billion (and is still the most poorly run of all UK governments). That’s before the money for everything else is added up (education, welfare etc).
I suppose they’ll be expecting the English tax payer to pay for all of this?
Devolved nations are permitted to have sound policies, but we don’t get to govern ourselves, so we get told anyone with policies other than austerity and privatisation for England is unelectable.
Something along the lines of the 2017 manifesto is what I’d like to see Labour return to in the future.
Yes because Drakeford is real Labour. Good luck seeing something like this in Union-wide politics though. Half of the PLP actively worked to undermine it in 2017, and then in 2019 they put forward a completely incoherent Brexit policy at a single issue election.
One of the few aspects where Drakeford holds any appeal to me. Scotland have proven that their 20 pound a week works in lifting people out of poverty. UBI is proven to work
Yes because they are popular ideas, especially in Wales where people are on average more left leaning.