[omgnowai134]

I'm trying to get more involved in politics, but I'm finding it quite difficult to find each of the parties' individual policies.

Can anyone help me with finding our Labour's main policies?

Thank you!

[meenu89]

(Original post by omgnowai134)
I'm trying to get more involved in politics, but I'm finding it quite difficult to find each of the parties' individual policies.

Can anyone help me with finding our Labour's main policies?

Thank you!

Their website? If they have any.

[rich2606]

They don't have any. That sounds flippant, but as they are the opposition they don't need to have any policies until the next election. Until then it's just some general vague guff and soundbites about "too far too fast", "fairness", and just opposing everything the government does.

[Guz2]

Miliband hasn't really set the direction of the party yet. Basicaly, they do very little but spout some populist nonsense about how terrible the Coalition is whilst not actually offering any alternatives and, in some cases, actually agreeing with the Coalition.

[FDR]

(Original post by omgnowai134)
I'm trying to get more involved in politics, but I'm finding it quite difficult to find each of the parties' individual policies.

Can anyone help me with finding our Labour's main policies?

Thank you!

Ed Balls has said recently that he would introduce a wealth tax similar to that proposed by Vince Cable of the Lib Dems, and advocates capital spending to kickstart the economy, rather than Osborne's austerity plan.

Having said that, as other posters have noted, all we really know now are just the media bites we get; Labour hold their conference at the end of september, and it is then that may outline just exactly what their main policies will be.

[rcummins1]

Bankrupting the country?

Come at me liberals.

[Morgsie]

There all over the place regarding policy, opposing the Government without saying what they would do differently

[pinklego]

hopefully they are nothing like the nu-labour project under blair. the blair years were rampant neo - liberalism gone wild, what with the open borders and out of control spending and debt creation.

hopefully milliband can steer the party back towards the left, however sings are not looking good.

[meenu89]

(Original post by Morgsie)
There all over the place regarding policy, opposing the Government without saying what they would do differently

Not opposing Vince though are they?

[SlowlorisIncognito]

At the moment, Labour seem very big on saying what they don't support- They don't support the unions but they also don't support the coalition spending cuts- without actually saying what they would do specifically to make things better.

More generally, Labour was traditionally the party of the working class. They were fairly left wing, and created the NHS and were involved in creating the welfare state. However, under Tony Blair, they moved away from this stance, and more towards the centre ground. They implemented policies such as national minimum wage, and devolution of power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but also deregulated the banks. Lots of people blame them for causing the financial crisis, however, this was partially caused by global factors too.

[Revilo1]

(Original post by pinklego)
hopefully they are nothing like the nu-labour project under blair. the blair years were rampant neo - liberalism gone wild, what with the open borders and out of control spending and debt creation.

hopefully milliband can steer the party back towards the left, however sings are not looking good.

Because we all know immigration and debt began under New Labour

I would say Labour tends to go with whatever seems most likely to win them an election (like all the main parties), although they obviously lean more to the left than the tories. Although expect their policies to change every few weeks

[Nick100]

The Labour party wants a large welfare state, and substantial regulation of business. Their specific policies will change year on year (sometimes they'll want to direct money to education, other times to healthcare for example) but overall that's the gist of what they believe in. Some of the more extreme members of the party will believe in socialism, but they are a minority these days.

[The_Great_One]

What a bunch of hypocrites people on here are when they know fine well they will vote labour at the next election. The policy is to ruin Britain once and for all with policies that are impossible to reverse.

[between_the_lies]

The policy of labour is to do anything for votes, fool people that socialism is the answer and everything is the oppositions fault, convince people that they need a big state and that the state is the economy (so you will get nowhere without Labour), borrow lots of money, promote progressive ideas then promote Britishness in words in Orwellian style, short termism, to treat the country like an accounts ledger and any change to it therefore does not matter, pander to communities from the East of the planet to get votes by helping them to bring their countrymen to Britain so they can be in the majority and take over etc.


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[pinklego]

(Original post by Revilo1)
Because we all know immigration and debt began under New Labour

I would say Labour tends to go with whatever seems most likely to win them an election (like all the main parties), although they obviously lean more to the left than the tories. Although expect their policies to change every few weeks

well, the borders were flung wide open under labour. before labour net migration was 10's of thousands of a year. after them it was 100's of thousands -- they basically sold out the working class and their labour roots to big business interests.

[between_the_lies]

(Original post by pinklego)
well, the borders were flung wide open under labour. before labour net migration was 10's of thousands of a year. after them it was 100's of thousands -- they basically sold out the working class and their labour roots to big business interests.

So why do do many white working class people vote labour?

[Chad_Bronson]

(Original post by Muscovite)
Why do people keep writing it as 'Nu-labour'?? Is it some kind of joke to not spell it as 'new labour'?

Does it matter? It means the same thing

[pinklego]

(Original post by between_the_lies)
So why do do many white working class people vote labour?

i have no idea but its a very interesting question that i ask myself. i think it has lot to do with political tribalism -- i don't think the working class knew they would be betrayed, labour just treated them badly because they could rely on their vote anyway.

i think political partisanship is stupid for this very reason -- as soon as a politician or political party takes voters for granted they immediately become irrelevant.

however, i think many of the core labour working class voters are beginning to turn away after the betrayal of the blair labour.

the old working class labour movement was over taken by university types who never worked a manual job in their lives -- and so they lost touch with the real working classes. in fact, lord glasman a labour peer says that blairs labour was actually hostile towards the working classes.

lets hope milliband can reconnect.

[Llamageddon]

(Original post by Morgsie)
There all over the place regarding policy, opposing the Government without saying what they would do differently

What, you mean like the conservatives and lib dems did pre-general election?

Well to be fair the liberal democrats did make a song and dance about one particular policy. A pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. That worked well.

The only policies that matter are those made by current governments and those made in manifestos of parties who stand a chance of obtaining power in a general election. Right now Labour are outlining general principles and this is both the accepted standard and most sensible way of doing things.

[Llamageddon]

(Original post by pinklego)
i have no idea but its a very interesting question that i ask myself. i think it has lot to do with political tribalism -- i don't think the working class knew they would be betrayed, labour just treated them badly because they could rely on their vote anyway.

i think political partisanship is stupid for this very reason -- as soon as a politician or political party takes voters for granted they immediately become irrelevant.

however, i think many of the core labour working class voters are beginning to turn away after the betrayal of the blair labour.

the old working class labour movement was over taken by university types who never worked a manual job in their lives -- and so they lost touch with the real working classes. in fact, lord glasman a labour peer says that blairs labour was actually hostile towards the working classes.

lets hope milliband can reconnect.

You're talking about a class of people that is frankly idealised and barely existent. No point canvassing a graveyard.