Hahaha. That's it? Hardly a reintroduction of Clause 4 and a call to the proletariat to reclaim the means of production by all means necessary.
Just a few-
'Rediscover radicalism'- he's referring to the energy of the early Blair years, as opposed to the relative stagnation of 2005 onwards. The party looked bereft of ideas in its latter years and got bogged down, he wants the vitality back.
What's the problem with having more female members of cabinet?
'Trades Unions' didn't vote for him- individual members of the 7 million-member-strong Trades Unions voted for him.
'Higher bank levy'- the Tories are proposing a £2 billion levy on banks, offset by a forthcoming reduction in corporation tax; this is in comparison to the £11 billion they want to take out of the benefit system. Given the reckless irresponsiblity of the banks and their new profitability, I'm pretty certain they could pay more and alleviate some of the pain lower down, after all 'we're all in this together', aren't we?
'Living wage'- don't you believe in people being given the dignity of being paid a decent wage and thus not having to rely on benefits? There are far too many companies paying crap wages and being effectively supported by the state. Why should part of my tax go to subsidise a firm who's keeping wages down to undercut its competition?
'50p tax rate'- the rich pay more, so what? They've benefited more from the society we've created, so why shouldn't they put relatively more back in? It only affects ~300,000 people in any case.
'Graduate tax'- I'd have rather had a few pence extra tax on my pay slip for a few years than the whopping amount of debt at 20% interest I left university with (this was before student loans came into being). You earn more, you pay more, seems fair enough seeing as you've benefitted from a university education.
