What is Labour's Economic Policy?

grizzly1911

Fella wrote: »

Increase taxes, increase red tape, keep us in Europe without giving us a vote on it & reduce Britain's competetiveness to an all-time low.

Now which party could that be? (I know which one you are suggesting)

In fact it could be any of them.

Taxes will go up always do never mind the depression. We will not get the vote we expect, red tape will just be replaced with another layer of bureaucracy somewhere else.

Fella

Not reallly true. Some Governments have reduced taxes & (assuming they can't wriggle out of it) the Tories will give us a vote on Euro membership if they win next time.

And I don't think they can wriggle out of the vote this time, it's a much more cut & dried & very publically understood proposal.

Generali

Thrugelmir wrote: »

If anyone can shed a light on this topic. Please post. I'm totally bored by the party line now. As devoid of any substance.

To be fair, and I see little point in being so given then tedious one-eyed BS posted on here by several Labour supporters, Labour are simply engaging in politics in the 21st Century manner.

Basically they'll refuse to say a thing about what they plan until the election is called as they can tailor the message to the situation. If things are still bad they can claim that it's all the fault of the Tories and offer to do something slightly different. If things are going well they can go back to wild and unaffordable promises.

The Tories did much the same thing in opposition and the Liberal party in Aus are persuing the same (lack of) policy.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

One of my old university mates posts several times a day on Facebook; uploading "hilarious" Photoshopped images of Cameron and Duncan-Smith as baby-eating ogres, tiresome Tories Are Evil slogans etc. She's a well educated woman from a Northern working class background. There are swathes of Labour voters like this across the country and they literally cannot be reasoned with. No matter what their education or current circumstance, the belief that Labour = Saviours, Tories = Murderers is tattoed into their every thought. I know there are dyed in the wool Tory voters too, but there is something cartoon-like about the Labour voting sheep that I find quite alarming.

Wookster

Generali wrote: »

Basically they'll refuse to say a thing about what they plan until the election is called as they can tailor the message to the situation. If things are still bad they can claim that it's all the fault of the Tories and offer to do something slightly different. If things are going well they can go back to wild and unaffordable promises.

The Tories did much the same thing in opposition and the Liberal party in Aus are persuing the same (lack of) policy.

And we wander why people are fed up with politicians...

DervProf

Labour's policy seems to be whatever they think the most voters want to hear.

I reckon they think that we believe that they would have "fixed" the economy by now (and that what they did prior to the credit crunch was perfect, and it's all the fault of the Americans).

Gordon was right in a way about "no more boom and bust", it was boom, boom, KABOOM !

robmatic

Funny that DecentLivingWage hasn't seen this thread...

Conrad

Labours policy;

+ Borrow to spend on capital projects

+ Raise taxes to expand welfare and the PS

+ Bring in all sorts of employee centric measures - the sorts of thing Jo Swinson advocates (of course this leads to less employment though)

+ Turn a blind eye to immigration. Great news for middle class urban socialites as they get cheaper tradesmen

+ Crack of with H&S once more


+ Once again cut wealth creation in favour of social engineering

Conrad

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Doesn't matter.

They're going to win unless the Tories create significant growth in the next 12-18 months.

Reagan won in 84 after disasterous mid - terms. The economy was still bad and unemployment was high in 84 but because job creation was on an upward trend, that was enough to swing it.


Labour will be painted as the party of;


+ Re - expanding welfare

+ Immigration

+ Raising tax

+ Killing off wealth creation once more

GeneHunt_2

BobQ wrote: »

Good question, who knows!

Part of it is to await the moment between now and the next election when the Nation realises that Tory medicine is not working and is actually damaging the economy, this may take another year. At this point the Lib Dems will be trying to put some open water between them and the Tory fanatics.

At that point some fairly bland ideas will emerge, from the Eds a bit short of a policy but plausible enough to attract votes from those who have suffered the Tory excesses.

It will be along the lines of doing the sensible and prudent things the Tories are already doing but doing them not quite as badly and with a little more humanity. So that would mean less reform based on an ideological wish to change for the sake of it whatever the costs (eg the NHS) and more infrastructure projects to stimulate the private sector which by then may have had enough of the dogma.

Nah - without a doubt they will go for tax cuts - to stimulate the economy - it is both sensible and a vote winner.

Cutting taxes - you heard it here first.