"Theresa May promised in her 2017 manifesto to introduce a cap on energy prices, which came into effect on 1 January 2019. The policy was similar, though not identical, to proposals first put forward by Ed Miliband in his 2015 general election run. At the time, the then prime minister, David Cameron, said the proposal was evidence Miliband wanted to live in a “Marxist universe”.
What exactly has Labour said ......
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The Department for Transport under a Labour government proposed the high-speed rail link, but the mantle was taken up by the Conservatives when Labour lost power in 2010. When Johnson told parliament in 2020 that the infrastructure project would go ahead, the then opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, responded: “Once again, we see the government taking its ideas from the Labour party.”
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The Department for Transport under a Labour government proposed the high-speed rail link, but the mantle was taken up by the Conservatives when Labour lost power in 2010. When Johnson told parliament in 2020 that the infrastructure project would go ahead, the then opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, responded: “Once again, we see the government taking its ideas from the Labour party.”
Nationalisation
The concept of nationalisation is usually anathema to Conservatives but that has not stopped the party pulling some services back into public ownership. The government renationalised what was broadly known as the Northern Rail service, which had been run by Arriva Rail North, in 2020. It also announced plans the same year to renationalise the probation service – the management of criminal offenders in the community. Corbyn’s Labour opposition had called for both actions to be taken.
National infrastructure commission
George Osborne was accused of being a “magpie chancellor” when he announced plans for a National infrastructure commission in 2015. Miliband had proposed the idea a year before with the aim of ending a culture of “chronic short-termism”. Inaugurated in 2015, one of its main tasks is to undertake a national infrastructure assessment during each parliament.
He knows that Labour will publish a manifesto for the GE, when it comes.Where is the Tories manifesto for the coming two years?
Oh that's right, we haven't seen any of the candidates manifestos yet.
Good to see Labour policies being implemented
Don't you agree, @just pumps
www.theguardian.com
Don't you agree, @just pumps
How magpie Tories steal Labour policies and rebrand them as their own
As the Conservatives introduce an ‘energy profits levy’, we look at their history of copying opposition ideas
www.theguardian.com
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That goes to show how little you know.
PS Why so many individual posts when you can edit.
Some posters attention span doesn't last sufficiently to read one post longer than a few lines, as I'm sure you are aware.
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Yes,if they are workable for the whole of the UK.
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Well that's funny.
You asked a question and I provided some answers
That's more than the pro-Johnson lobby did.
Not even a thankyou.
Well that's funny.
You asked a question and I provided some answers
That's more than the pro-Johnson lobby did.
Not even a thankyou.
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For those responding with barbs in their replies You are wasting your time with me!
The sad thing is that would have cost less than the 'virus' PPE corruption costs...
And the whole lot at a fraction of 'trussed up's' suicidal budget that was only for the rich!
Absolutely agree...
And as I have mentioned before, we got one removed in a property we have a joint interest in...
Because otherwise those at the bottom of the heap have no chance of getting out of what Bob Geldof correctly called the 'Rat Trap'...
Unlike some others here, we do care!
