If you read the content of their manifesto it sounds like they will do everything to make life perfect – cheaper transport and energy, create more jobs, increase the minimum wage, build ‘truly’ affordable housing, scrap the welfare cap, scrap university tuition fees.
Sounds perfect.
No suggestion of how they will do all this save for capping bankers’ bonuses and scrapping the HS2 rail link. That ain’t gonna pay for all those changes.
It really is a testament to success of Thatcherism and neoliberal agenda that some people genuinely believe that the seventh wealthiest nation on earth cannot afford to have affordable transport and energy, anything other than mass unemployment, a decent minimum wage, affordable housing, rent caps instead of welfare caps, and free university education.
And yet funnily enough the seventh wealthiest nation on earth has however a limitless supply of money available when it comes to paying for foreign wars. And there is of course there is a bottomless money pit to pay for updating our weapons of mass destruction, which we are constantly assured we will never need.
So there you have it – don’t vote for change instead be content with some of the highest public transport costs in the world, over two million unemployed, crap minimum wages which have to be subsidized, exorbitant housing costs, exorbitant rents which aren’t covered by housing benefits, and tertiary education which leaves young people with massive debts before they have even embarked on their chosen careers.
And btw before the days of the neoliberal consensus of the Tories, New Labour, and the Lib Dems, the UK had cheap transport and utilities costs, full employment, higher wages, affordable housing, a universal welfare state, and free university education. Funny that.