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Which faction of Labour won 3 elections in a row?
by gm3dmo 6y ago
Which faction of Labour won 3 elections in a row?
- AndrewBissell 6y agoWhat's the point of winning elections just to enact your opposition's policies?
- gm3dmo 6y agoThis is education, the centrepiece of The Labour Party's 1997 manifesto: Cut class sizes to 30 or under for 5, 6 and 7 year-olds Nursery places for all four year-olds Attack low standards in schools Access to computer technology Lifelong learning through a new University for Industry More spending on education as the cost of unemployment falls Can you demonstrate where the opposition had those policies?
- pmachinery 6y agoThis is education, the centrepiece of The Labour Party's 1997 manifesto: Just weeks before polling day, Tony Blair said: “Labour has no plans to introduce tuition fees for higher education.” Labour’s Robin Cook added: “We are quite clear that tuition costs must be met by the state.” just two months after becoming prime minister, Blair went ahead and introduced tuition fees.[0] > Can you demonstrate where the opposition had those policies? True, in opposition the Tories were actually opposed to Labour's tuition fees, condemning them as an attack on the poor and even promising to scrap them. They know a good, juicy Tory policy when they see it though, and under David Cameron they reversed their pretend opposition, kept tuition fees and increased them. So it does a serious disservice to Blair to say he merely copied Tory policies, when his Labour Party so out-Toried the Tories, they were reduced to copying him. [0] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-students-have-been-misled-and-lied-to-for-20-years https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-studen...
- AndrewBissell 6y agoNothing is funnier than pointing to a party's platform or manifesto as some kind of barometer of where it actually stands with respect to policy.