'It's like night and day': Labour manifesto analysed | LBC

As Labour launches its manifesto for the upcoming General Election, James O'Brien and Natasha Clark analyse Keir Starmer's pledges.

'It's like night and day.'
'The atmosphere could not have been more stark.'
'People are literally hanging off the rafters to hear from Keir Starmer.'
'There is excitement, electricity - genuinely people are beaming.'
'He said: "We don't have a magic wand. But what we do have...is a credible long-term plan."'
'A plan built on stable foundations with clear first steps.'
'He's clearly enjoying this campaign.'
'The response I'm getting is almost unanimously positive.'
'Did you get an apology from the Tories for being ignored?'

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[chrispalmer]

There seems to me to be an obvious line that they're missing. All they need to say is that it took the Tories 14 years to do all this damage to the country, it will take some time to repair it all.

[neilfreeman]

I assumed James was quite a big bloke but judging by that mug he must be tiny!

[DiodeFilms]

The reason we're struggling to grow is because what we have already is so unevenly distributed. Working people generate new wealth by producing things, and its much easier for them to do so when they have more resources (money). Where has all the money gone? The rich have it.

[mrc]

Starmer needs to make PR a manifesto commitment. So sick of the elected dictatorship see-saw.

[chassetterfield]

Growth? We gave up / sold off our manufacturing sector in the 80s. We sold off our utilities sector in the 80s /90s. Our biggest export is cash, to the foreign owners of whatever large companies are left. We're killing off our agriculture. The 'small entrepreneurs' Thatcher espoused have seen so many of their dreams crushed. Our traders are crushed by the weight & cost of bureaucracy post Brexit. A large part of the budget of government contracts goes on 'consultants'.
We have become the Golgafrinchan 'B' ark; telephone sanitizers, ad executives, hairdressers [ I won't denigrate nail bar technicians ] and the like.
Just as you don't fatten a pig by constantly weighing it, a small village doesn't grow by just bartering amongst its residents.

[snoggydog]

When I hear people say he's boring, I smile to myself. After Johnson, boring is what we need because 'boring' equates to 'serious.' He is clearly a man of high moral standing and isn't that a breath of fresh air?

[blink]

Railways, energy company to help the citizens of the UK and not profits for investors, considering they have no plans they seem to have more to offer than the toriea

[joefelicianomarques]

Wealth creation means very little, until we know what its distribution looks like.

[ThomasKing]

The people complaining about Labour need to take a look at the damage the Tories have done over the past 14 years.

[mrgaudy]

I think people get too hung up on “where’s the growth going to come from” because it’s a question that’s almost always impossible to answer. However, if long term, steady growth is your goal (and it should be) then investing in regular people, public services and sensible infrastructure is probably the best approach.

[Ally-StaffyLover]

Starmer also opened up on a topic he hasn’t shared much about: how he and his Jewish wife are raising his children to recognize their Jewish faith. Starmer, who succeeded Jeremy Corbyn earlier this year, said Monday that he was “brought up Church of England, loosely, and my wife’s family are Jewish, they came out from Poland.” As reported in The Times of Isreal 29 Dec 2020. He kept that quiet in the UK

[mymusic]

It feels like a continuation of Tony Blair’s damage.

[MrPhantom]

There's nothing in this clip that analyses their manifesto, simply an acknowledgement that there's very little in it that sets out how they intend to raise the finance to fund their targets.

[scottflannigan]

The main thing to get the economy and public sector services going is money into the working class and into public services

[davidupton]

Jeez, the LBC Labour propaganda machine here. I'm not a party political person, I have voted for all the main parties over the years. I prefer the conservative manifesto this time around, for example, helping first time buyers and enticing landlords to sell their property to the people renting it and in this increasingly dangerous world committing to 2.5% spending on defence is essential for me. I wanted to hear about food security by developing a farming policy and an industrial policy in technology but no party has addressed that anywhere near sufficiently.

[petershaw]

Why aren't any of them addressing the real problem... BREXIT?

[itsbboybump]

If politicians want people to be better off RAISE THE PERSONAL ALLOWANCE. Up that to 15k and you have a few 100 quid more in peoples pockets per month.

[Bullseye_Strength]

Easily the most narcissistic manifesto I've ever seen.
With 33 pictures of Starmer, it looks more like a celebrity calendar than a political manifesto.

[SeanTube]

We are right on the cusp of real change for the first time in 15 years. Hopefully the right wing newspapers can't stop it!!

[DanCThorpe]

Trickle down doesn't work. It never has. It won't with Labour at the helm. Its magical thinking.