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This policy isn't going to be enacted
Indeed - and that's the fundamental privilege of opposition that Starmer needs to remember he can use! Sometimes he seems so pre-occupied with looking like a "party of government" (whatever that means) that he leaves open goals.
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But if he offers pie in the sky tosh then that leave them open to the old arguments of labour economics crap with money. Which the public always lap up.
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Indeed - and that's the fundamental privilege of opposition that Starmer needs to remember he can use
For whatever reason though the conservatives can just make shit up and no one worries about how financially realistic it is but if labour don't fully cost their every suggestion they are financially irresponsible.
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Criticism seems to be 'this is a short term plan to get us through the next six months, not a long term plan to get us through the next six years'.
Which is true as far as it goes but that's a bit like slagging off an orange for not being an apple. It's not meant to be an apple. It's an orange. This policy isn't going to be enacted - Starmer is the leader of the opposition - but to show that it is possible to have a solution, but the Tories have so far declined to bother with one. It's a 'pressure the Tories' policy not a 'this is what we'd do as a party of government' policy. It's working too:
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1559072038018600963