Originally Posted by
Eric Cartman
It is quite frustrating watching an hour long special of people picking things apart but offering no alternative, although I do understand that this is their job.
I think this viewed on its own isnt enough really. They didnt provide much objective analysis of the impacts of the conservative manifesto because, as they kept having to say, they appear to be sticking very closely to their most recent budget.
It felt like the current conservative policies were used as a baseline to judge the labour manifesto without much analysis into does austerity work? Is UK growth built on sand? Perhaps this has been discussed before.
Interesting about labour not reversing a lot of the larger Tory cuts to in work benefits though, presumably linked to trying to create a higher wage society.
I also thought it was interesting how specifically doom and gloom they were about labour's income tax policies, almost going as far as saying 'taxing rich people doesn't fix income inequality'. Well what does then? Is it a bit like terrorism? You cant smash it to pieces you have to change people's minds.