Does this mean I have woken up this morning to find myself a communist?
From the article I have listed most points as good, bad or WTF:
Good
- scrapping NHS prescription charges
- bringing all hospital cleaning back in-house
- a new council house building programme
- extending the adult minimum wage to 18- to 21-year-olds and apprentices
- changes that would to allow councils to negotiate procurement contracts that include fair employment clauses
- staff in city academies to be paid at the same rates as other school staff
- the right to five days a year paid educational leave for all workers
- free school meals for all children in primary schools
- all firms bidding to run public services to be required to give guaranteed apprenticeship numbers
- extend the "not-for-profit model" to passenger train operators as franchises expire
- break up the dominance of the six major energy companies
* includes a right to take supportive strike action
The 70's called, they want their power to cripple the country back.
WTF?
* wants withdrawal from Iraq
Without a description of how to achieve this I find this a little too headline grabbing.
* and a 50p income tax rate on those earning more than £100,000
Class warfare, yet again.
* new agreement on public sector pay with the Treasury
Ah, the higher tax to pump up government revenues so they can give the cash to the unions. Tell you waht, surrender your finalsalary pensions and then we'll talk public sectopr pay increases.
* place a duty on individual company directors to "take all reasonable steps to ensure health and safety"
I can't see how this is going to actually work in the real world, better than it does under existing laws
* new union environmental reps with similar rights to safety reps
Jobs for the boys. Why not add this to the list of responsibilities of the safety reps? Or is it another ploy to get another official that can call a strike "on environmental grounds"?
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"Brown has already angered the unions by characterising some of their proposals as a return to the 1970s". And more and moe journos are queuing up to take a pop.
Surely the fact that I appear to be to the left of GTLSB is a cause for concern?
How much longer before there is a backbench revolt to rid NuLabia of albatross killer Brown?
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