Radical policies more deperately wanted than ever
JVL Introduction
In this article Ell Folan, founder of Stats for Lefties and a columnist for Novara Media, takes a careful look at what the data suggests the public wants.
None of it suggests peopl are crying out for the Labour leadership’s priorities.
Rather, a Green New Deal to boost the economy and protect the environment, higher wages for workers and a publicly owned, well-funded health service sit well with current preoccupations.
The conclusion is simple: “If Labour wants to capture the public mood in 2021, it could do worse than to listen to its own members.”
This article was originally published by Novara Media on Tue 12 Oct 2021. Read the original here.
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Absolutely right, Eli. It’s hard to believe that the current Labour leadership is in any way serious about ever winning an election.
You don’t have to be an out and out populist to see that it’s a good idea to adopt policies that are popular. When those policies align with traditional values, it’s a no-brainer. Unfortunately, it seems some of our leaders either have no brains – or they are determined to keep Labour out of government.
Ally that with concerted efforts to push/kick out of the party the people who work so hard to win elections AND the adoption as potential candidates of people who have only recently been working to destroy the party and you have a toxic combination. It’s heartbreaking.
Toxic. Heartbreaking. Agree.
I was getting really angry at Starmer and Ashworth, who were not telling the public of what was happening to Our NHS. (I’ve still heard nothing )Here’s what I did:-
My official complaint to the LP, that I made against another LP member!!
I’ve sent a complaint in to the LP.
The form asks, who is the person you are complaining about, ‘Kier Starmer’, it goes on, some questions are impossible to answer, obviously because it wasn’t set up so we could complain about the Leader. In the end they accepted the complaint and it will be investigated, I did receive an email saying it would be going before the NEC. be interesting to see what comes of it.
As evidence, I pasted in my email to Starmer and Ashworth, saying he never answered or said anything about it in public, this is why I’m complaining. I added that I posted it on his Twitter account and his Facebook page, I even used it as replies and as a comment many times.
Here’s the email I sent to him and Ashworth.
You are being handed a Golden Opportunity to attack this Pathetic and Nasty Tory Government, yet we hear nothing from you, Why??? Let me help you, this is all researchable.
Tories, “The NHS is safe in our hands” and “We will never Privatise the NHS”. They Lied, they’ve closed Hospitals, Wards, Beds and A&Es, we are 40k nurses, 20k Dr’s and GPs short.
In 2018 the NHS paid £9 billion to Privuate Companies to run parts of it and that figure is accelerating year on year. All NHS Dentists are now run by Private Companies and it isn’t free at the point of need, ‘check up, clean and descale, plus one filling £62 (topped up by the NHS) causing hundreds of thousands of poor people to avoid going to the Dentist until they are desperate. GP Surgeries up and down the Country are stopping many treatments, ie chiropody, earwax removal and have now announced another 31, (see link 3) on top of the 17 procedures and treatments that were stopped 2 years ago, (see link 2) with more to come. Why not let the doctors decide, some of these procedures and operations save 10s of thousands from suffering.
Link 1, is Doctor Bob Gill, who describes how it is being broken up and run down.
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Doctor Bob Gill video.
Telling you what is happening to our NHS in great detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2c3lQsvkZ4&feature=share
2.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/nhs-wields-the-axe-on-17-unnecessary-procedures
3.
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/please-say-no-right-now-to-withdrawal-of-routine-nhs-funding-to-31-tests-treatments-and-medical-procedures/?fbclid=IwAR3tb9WYA_g0iyyE2ECePImkmiYx-zczv-wJVYYiWfDwLEwlnUB1B3fiTTc
Why are we putting our discontent into the labour party ? They have, and will likely continue to fail us, especially under Sir Keith, and unfortunately, Corbyn, the supposed radical, has just been allowing himself to be pushed around, rather than fighting back or trying to establish his own party.