Labour Pledges

[SueEllen]

Labour has announced their election pledges.

One of them is to build high tech economy.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/g...on-pledge-card

[The_Equalizer]

In India?

[SueEllen]

In India?

No they are bringing the Indians to us.

Gets rid of the problem of having too many old people and not enough young workers thus helping pensions.

Look at the second page http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/g...ture=360884114

It all makes sense.

[doodab]

One of them is to build high tech economy.

They are going to replace CCTV with Robocop.

[SueEllen]

They are going to replace CCTV with Robocop.

It's ok it will be built in India by HP or Crapita.


Oh.......

[Gonzo]

Channel 4 did a piece a while back on Labour's previous election pledges.

http://www.channel4.com/news/article...e+cards/507807

The gist of it is that the pledges are vague enough that the government can claim to have met them.

[threaded]

Labour has announced their election pledges.

One of them is to build high tech economy.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/g...on-pledge-card

It gives you a sinking feeling doesn't it. You just know, deep down, that when the government makes this kind off pledge your industry is in line to be destroyed...

[SueEllen]

It gives you a sinking feeling doesn't it. You just know, deep down, that when the government makes this kind off pledge your industry is in line to be destroyed...

I was thinking about emigrating.

Now I think I will unless they get a teeny majority where they need a minority party to help them push things through, it's a hung parliament or they loose.

[expat]

Labour has announced their election pledges.

One of them is to build high tech economy.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/g...on-pledge-card

At the Labour Party's 1963 annual conference, Wilson made possibly his best-remembered speech, on the implications of scientific and technological change,[6] in which he argued that "the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated measures on either side of industry". This speech did much to set Wilson's reputation as a technocrat not tied to the prevailing class system.

Those who can not remember the past...

[Platypus]

"Raise family living standards"

e.g. by freezing personal allowances so that lower paid people pay even more in tax as a proportion of their income than they did before the budget.

Great!