When Jeremiah Codpiece became Labour leader, here are his ten pledges about what he would do as PM: 1. Full employment with £500bn public investment via a National Investment Bank. 2. Build 1m new homes in five years, at least half of them council homes. Also rent controls and secure tenancies. 3. Stronger employment rights, an end to zero hours contracts and mandatory collective bargaining for companies with 250 or more employees. 4. End health service privatisation and bring services into a “secure, publicly-provided NHS”. 5. Universal public childcare, the “progressive restoration” of free education, and quality apprenticeships. 6. Keeping to Paris climate agreement, and move to a “low-carbon economy” and green industries, in part via a National Investment Bank. 7. Renationalising railways and bringing private bus, leisure and sports facilities back into local government control. 8. A progressive tax system so highest earners are “fairly taxed”, shrink the gap between the highest and lowest paid. 9. Combat violence against women, as well as discrimination based on race, sexuality or disability, and defend the Human Rights Act. 10. Conflict resolution and human rights “at the heart of foreign policy”. Quite a lot of this looks like what the son of the toolmaker is offering. It does have to be said that John McDonnell was paying for this with “fiscal stimulus”, cracking down on tax evasion and money from the “resultant stronger economy”. Rachel Reeves sounds a lot like Marxist McDonnell.
Ten years ago today they killed Gaddafi and turned the world into an even bigger shìtehole. That was their plan tbf.
