At the risk of wasting a load more time on you, those aren't intangible policies.
Under the New Labour, Coalition and Tory governments there have been an explosion in the number of zero-hours contracts and agency work. Nearly a million people
now work under a zero hours contract and more work
via agencies and subcontract
umbrella companies. There is abundant evidence - including two separate Court cases - that those people are being exposed to practices that are unfair and illegal (and unsafe, if we are talking about construction firms - probably why
the number of deaths is going up).
This needs to be dealt with, as its not only affecting those people, its also affecting people (like black cab drivers, or booksellers) and firms who are facing unfair competition because they don't break the law and pay the minimum wage.
Building more social housing would be a start (especially if they are going to sell them off as well), but you could just resurrect the old Livingstone policy (from when he was Mayor of London) of only allowing new developments if a % of it was genuinely social housing. That worked, it didn't cost the taxpayer anything, they were all of good quality, it didn't substantially affect the profitability of the development and it made better developments than we have seen since, at least down here.
A total freeze on business rates, elimination of tax breaks for big firms and a fair system for resolving contract disputes (and encouraging fair deals in the first place). Also It isn't Labour policy, but I'd also like to see a US-style "honest services" fraud bill put on the statute books, requiring directors and senior management to do their jobs honestly and in the best interests of the firm as a whole, rather than themselves.
For some things yes, but if the state stopped outsourcing whole areas of competence like that the likes of Virgin would go away (who at the end of the day bring very little to the table - all the staff actually delivering the service are usually TUPE'd in from the NHS anyway, then hammered when their protections run out).
Which was ironically Tory official policy, ruthlessly enforced (as loads of them, including Amery, Cartland, Eden and the Duchess of Atholl found out). I'd expect there would be rather more focus on negotiation where possible and rather less on spectacular but useless token attacks.
Do you really think that, if he won, the boycott of his Cabinet by the so-called leading lights of Labour would continue? Also its McDonnell, and he would probably be Chancellor.
