Circumstances have changed, our ambitions have not. That’s what you need to know now about our green plan | Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
Circumstances have changed, our ambitions have not. That’s what you need to know now about our green plan | Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
No one expected the Tories to crash the economy like they did. Building a greener Britain means being honest about this, say Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
In no particular order, these are the specific policies they say they're still going to do with some amount less than £28 billion:
- Investment: 'tens of billions of pounds of private sector investment in green hydrogen, carbon capture, clean steel, renewable-ready ports and gigafactories' [note that this is private sector investment and they don't say here exactly how they're going to make this happen]; 'borrowing to invest so we can invest to grow' (particularly notable as I've seen lots of people say this is no longer the plan - at time of writing, it is the plan); 'the funding for Great British Energy, a new publicly owned champion in clean energy generation'
- Jobs: 'a new national wealth fund that will create half a million good, well-paid jobs', 'create more jobs'
- Lower bills: 'By insulating 5m homes we’ll cut up to £500 from household energy bills'; 'double the investment into warm homes'; 'cheaper bills'
- Government spending under control: 'a proper windfall tax on oil and gas giants'; 'debt down as a share of GDP'
- Greener Britain: 'the funding for Great British Energy, a new publicly owned champion in clean energy generation', to deliver 'clean power by 2030' [NB: this is the second of the five pledges they're running on]
There's other, vaguer stuff in there, but this is the kind of thing you can actually check against delivery. Mostly the article focuses on his first two major pledges ('Securing the "highest sustained growth" in the G7' and 'clean power by 2030', see above).
The other three of the five main pledges all get a shout out in the last paragraph ('get the NHS working again, and lead to safer streets and better schools.').
Apparently, the reason they've backed off the £28bn is that they never actually worked out how to spend all of it. So, per that argument, the above is all 'costed' in so far as it meets their fiscal rules. Now, if you believe that line of argument (and you're free not to), that means that none of the actual policies have been dropped; what has been dropped is spending even more on some ill-defined policies. However, we do know that one actual policy has been scaled back, which is the home insulation policy. This strikes me, personally, as a bad decision, given the state of our housing stock.
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Man y’all need a real labor party. I’m not one to talk as my country does too. But still. Get yourselves some publicly owned enterprises
Get yourselves some publicly owned enterprises
I get where you're coming from, but that is one of the policies. It's in the article and I quoted it twice in the post! '[Today] we can confirm the funding for Great British Energy, a new publicly owned champion in clean energy generation, that will deliver long-term energy security from foreign dictators by investing in floating offshore wind, nuclear and tidal [my emphasis].'
Obviously, public ownership is not the only possible 'labour' policy. Like this is Labour's new deal for working people in detail, more pithily summed up in this graphic:
And they also have some admittedly vague plans to double the size of the co-operative sector, which is to me a very 'labour-ish' policy.
The problem here is thanks to the spinning top that Is kier stammer none of that can be trusted to be more than just the next turn in waiting.
The problem is news outlets and Torybots on here spouting that Labour have changed policies because Starmer hasn't talked about it for a week.
Or his ideas such as bringing energy back nationalised without Nationalising the big six means that he is a Tory for not wanting to take on those trainwrecks of companies.
It then appears that policies keep changing because peoples made up stories about red Tories turn out to be false.
Although it's unsurprising the number of people on here who claim to be Labour supporters who then bash Starmer for things they've made up in their head. It is an election cycle.
And the Tories' changes in policy are never reported as u-turns. Sunak supported HS2 until he didn't, they had an industrial strategy till they didn't, etc. 'Starmer u-turns' is a Tory attack line that leftists have decided to repeat to trumpet their supposedly anti-Tory credentials!
Don't worry I'm not a labour or tory supporter. In both their eyes I'm way worse
But I can see why it's hard to follow, and why it looks like his position keeps changing. Especially when you have folks like @fudoshin posting all sorts of half baked conspiracy theories.
I also don't support Labour (or Tory). They're a complete mess, but not because of anything that Starmers done. They've been a whole fucking mess for much longer than that.
Thing is I'd like to support Labour on paper they should have been my choice but since they started drifting with Tony it's getting harder and harder. Stammer seems to be accelerating that processes.
It's a fuckrd up situation here, good friends have stopped being friends because I didn't vote Labour thinking it's somehow labour's god given right to have my vote not realising that if every single person who votes like me voted for Labour the situation we are in would change very little.
Everything bar the first one is just wishy-washy bullshit.
Fair pay for a fair day's work? Wtf is "fair"? It's just meaningless slogans.
And zero hour contracts will never get banned. It's too important for major companies like McDonald's and other fast food places.
I did provide a link with more detail, which contains answers to your question. Specifically:
Labour will introduce a genuine living wage for all adult workers
That, plus proper enforcement and Fair Pay Agreements, negotiated sector by sector, are what they intend to do to make pay fair.
Keep fighting the good fight, Frank.