Investors prepare for a Labour Government

[JohnD]

Yes, thanks for raising the topic, its good to know that the Tory government ...

...has copied a Labour policy that they previously attacked, in the hope of wooing voters. See Labour manifesto 2017
"Energy costs and security – by capping costs and investing in new publicly owned energy provision"
It was also in Ed Miliband's 2015 election pledge. In 2013, after Labour announced the price freeze, Cameron accused Miliband of wanting to “live in some sort of Marxist universe in which it is possible to control all these things.” So Theresa has become a Marxist, eh?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2...-cap-will-save-families-100-damian-green-says

Even your link says "The announcement will be seen as another U-turn by Ms May"


Whatever next? Has Theresa dropped her pro-foxhunting and pro-ivory trading policies yet? Anything in a desperate effort to cling to power.

 

[motorbiking]

Whether its labour, the tories or the irrelevant party, I don't really mind when they U-turn. The media get all feisty, but for me it shoes they listen to feedback and are ready to change. I liked new labour for that reason also. When they got it wrong, they changed. Labour were very sensitive to things that hit votes. The torries seem not to care about the negative brand they get from trying to scalp each other. However, I was very much against the over sizing of public sector under labour. I still remember the stupid money wasting that went on just so that departments would not show surplus.

 

[Doggit]

Unfortunately, can you trust a government that "listens" though. As often, they are just listening to keep up the share of their votes. Sometimes you need a government that will ignore the clamour, because they know they're doing what's necessary, rather than what's popular. But this argument falls over with the current overseas aid budget.

 

[motorbiking]

I don't get why we spend so much on overseas aid when all the evidence suggests a hell of a lot of it ends up in the wrong pockets.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Unfortunately, can you trust a government that "listens" though. As often, they are just listening to keep up the share of their votes. Sometimes you need a government that will ignore the clamour, because they know they're doing what's necessary, rather than what's popular.

Have you changed your mind and now think that's what they should have done with Brexit?

Ignoring clamour is good.