A GREAT thread! It lists 33 progressive policies of the 2019 Labour Manifesto, reminding us of what we #CouldHaveHad & follows up suggesting #WhyWeWereStopped
🇬🇧 was CHEATED of a Progressive government. Right-wing Labour leaders SABOTAGED Labour's chances in the 2019 GE, paving the way for the coup.
The 2019 Labour Manifesto was derided by MSM despite being fully costed, and nowhere did it promise £37 billion for a useless phone app... ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukma...
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#WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will transform the workplace for disabled people by requiring that all employers be trained to better support them, while introducing mandatory disability pay-gap reporting for companies.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘Create an Emancipation Educational Trust to educate around migration and colonialism, and to address the legacy of slavery and teach how it interrupted a rich and powerful black history which is also British history.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will take urgent action to protect private renters through rent controls, open-ended tenancies, and new, binding minimum standards.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will Deliver gender pay equality by making the state responsible for enforcing equal pay legislation for the first time.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will put class at the heart of Britain’s equality agenda and create a new ground for discrimination on the basis of socio-economic disadvantage.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will create a new Department for Women & Equalities, with a full-time Secretary of State, responsible for ensuring all our policies & laws are equality-impact assessed in order to deliver a fairer society.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will close the tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools and use that money to improve the lives of all children.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will also extend paid maternity leave to 12 months. Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year- olds will be entitled to 30 hours of free preschool education per week.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will establish a network of open- access mental health hubs to enable more children to access mental health and recruit almost 3,500 qualified counsellors to guarantee every child access to school counsellors.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will eliminate remaining areas of discrimination in law, ensuring that LGBT+ people can live in safety and dignity.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will end and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will restore public sector pay by delivering year-on-year above-inflation pay rises, starting with a 5% increase, to reward and retain the people who do so much for us all.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will end the current presumption in favour of outsourcing public services & introduce a presumption in favour of insourcing, & we will stop the public getting ripped off by taking back all PFI contracts over time.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will pay childcare costs up front so that parents aren’t forced to turn down work or get into debt to pay for childcare.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will abandon the Tories’ plans to raise the State Pension Age, leaving it at 66. We will maintain the ‘triple lock’ and guarantee the Winter Fuel Payment, free TV licences and free bus passes as universal benefits.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will end the unfairness that sees income from wealth taxed at lower rates than income from work. VAT is a regressive tax that hits the poorest hardest and we guarantee no increases in VAT.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will scrap Universal Credit. We will immediately stop moving people onto it and design an alternative system that treats people with dignity and respect.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will introduce A Right to Food. We will end ‘food bank Britain’. We will ensure everyone has access to healthy, nutritious, sustainably produced food.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver improvements for rail passengers by bringing our railways back into public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will create a new UK National Energy Agency to own and maintain the national grid infrastructure and oversee the delivery of our decarbonisation targets.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver nearly 90% of electricity and 50% of heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will lead the world in fighting 9environmental emergency), with a plan to drive up living standards by transforming our economy into one low in carbon, rich in good jobs, radically fairer and more democratic.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will replac(e) the DWP on day one with a Department for Social Security, which will be there to help and support people, not punish and police them.' – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
