In a key speech, the PM says the government faces "an almighty challenge" to reach its targets by the end of this parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
@peteblue @davek and other random Righties Have highlighted the bits that a Tory pledge card help would get across to the challenged.
1 - He starts with promising
higher living standards, reiterating that Labour has pledged to secure the highest sustained growth in the G7, and saying they will work to ensure working people have more money in their pockets.
Unfortunately, the money in peoples pockets (working or otherwise) won’t buy as much because all the NIC costs will rebound onto higher costs and higher prices. He really doesn’t understand this.
He says this is so the burden of the cost-of-living crisis is no longer intruding on them.
2 - He then outlines targets around housing, reiterating the promise to build 1.5 million new homes, saying they will work so home ownership doesn't move further away from working families.
Sounds great except 1.5 million houses will barely cover the immigration we are experiencing. Then the additional infrastructure, schools, doctors, hospitals, road access etc etc will have to be added to this build. Meanwhile house builders will be hit with higher staff costs, materials costs and energy costs, plus of course the NIC.
3 - He then talks of policing and crime, pledging to have more police on the streets.
Yet I believe the area he represents has one of the worst crime records in the U.K.
4 - On education Starmer promises to ensure a record proportion of five-year-olds starting school "ready to learn" to give children "the best start in life". This is a new pledge by the PM.
It’s called parenting. However did he mention exactly how this will be delivered, measured, and the resources needed together with suitable premises to provide this. Looks like smoke and mirrors which can’t be properly measured.
5 - His fifth point mentions his government's target of delivering clean power by 2030. Starmer says this is needed to make the country more secure in the face of threats by "tyrants like Putin".
This is just a bad joke being played on us all by that idiot Miliband. Energy costs will go through the roof (not down as promised) and who will be providing all the wind turbines that we apparently buy from China.
6 - NHS waiting lists is the final pledge, says Starmer - an 18-week target from referral to treatment finally met
Did he give a date ? Did he spell out how this would be achieved ? Is it an overhaul of the NHS management and bureaucracy, which has been needed for decades…remember Tony Bliar “24 hours to save the NHS”. Will it be done by recruitment, if so from where, will it be more hospitals which are needed anyway to cope with the ridiculous levels of immigration, both legal and illegal.
From a man who doesn’t answer questions and has U turned on pretty well everything he said to become Labour Leader, then repeated it to become PM, does anyone actually believe him or his CV amending’Economist’. The country is heading towards the rocks and these idiots have no ideas or actual plans to sort it.
And before the replies come in with the usual whataboutery to include Boris and Brexit, just answer one simple question…”Do you really believe Starmer will do any of the above”……
www.bbc.co.uk
fullfact.org
