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Personally I think it's too early in the election cycle to be launching fully formed plans.
This seems to be the go to response for any criticism of Starmer. "It's too soon." When it comes to politicking, sure - that may be a valid - even prudent - position. But this document isn't intended to represent "fully formed plans." He's not put out a party manifesto or electoral pledge. It's supposed to represent his political thought (hence it being published by the Fabians). I think it's intellectually problematic to claim it's "too soon" for him to express that.
(To be explicit, I'm not calling you intellectually dishonest!)
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I think I may have misunderstood what you wanted. I was more referring to specific plans (e.g. this is what we do, this is how we'll fund it, etc).
It does go into some detail, stuff like this for instance:
... a New Deal for Working People. It will provide security and opportunities for people across the country, with improved conditions, quality jobs, training and better pay. It will increase
the minimum wage, ensuring proper wages that people can raise a family on. It will ensure rights for all workers from day one, such as sick pay, parental leave, and the right to flexible working, reflecting the realities of the post-Covid world. It would ban dubious practices
such as fire and rehire and stop firms exploiting loopholes to get out of giving employment rights to their workers.
We would give people stronger rights to be represented at work by their trade unions to help raise standards and protect workers. And, crucially, it would guarantee work or training for young people.
We would replace universal credit and reimagine our social security system to ensure that work pays. We want low-paid people to keep more of the money they earn, so that having
enough money to raise a family isn’t the preserve of the better-off.
All this would make a difference to hard-working people. It would put far more emphasis on balancing work with family, rather than choosing between the two. It would create happier, more productive employees.
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Personally I think it's too early in the election cycle to be launching fully formed plans. We're probably looking at two or three years until the next election, anything released now will have lost its impact by then (or possibly be unworkable in post covid/brexit times).
@ReekBlefs I guess in theory that's point 4. Maybe they didn't go for anything more explicit as they didn't want to be accused of being too "woke". Although I think they could have promoted something like that together with "British values" of tolerance, fighting for the underdog, etc