I think you are being incredibly generous in your interpretation. You’ve made no mention of statements he made on nationalisation,
In particular, equating Vat on private schools to a 5% tax increase in income tax is, I think, fanciful. Not least because you might be surprised that not every private school is Eton, educated the aristocracy. Indeed as has been well argued - they are a tool of social mobility for many.
You’ve not mentioned universal credit, tuition fees , outsourcing in the NHS, the list goes on.The article I’ve linked is fully sourced.
So here’s what happened. Post Corbyn, he’s surfed on the back of his popularity, He Pledged and talked up strong social policy as was the mood of the Party at the time.
On winning the leadership contest, he swiftly purged the left of the party that had done so well in the elections. Corbyn and Abbot remain unable to stand as Labour MPs.
Then He made a beeline to big business, and assured them their profits were safe : labour (small L) will remain cheap and there will no increase in tax burden.
I did mention all of those things indirectly, because they were all in the pledges, and I mentioned all of the pledges. Those changes were all contained within the changes I acknowledged. Your argument was that the 10 pledges had been all but scrapped. I’ve shown that 5/10 still stand exactly as they were. Of the five remaining, three of them at least partly stand. So, at least half, at most 8/10, still hold up. In either case, they haven’t been all but scrapped, which is what I was asked to show.
I think you are being incredibly generous in your interpretation. You’ve made no mention of statements he made on nationalisation,
In particular, equating Vat on private schools to a 5% tax increase in income tax is, I think, fanciful. Not least because you might be surprised that not every private school is Eton, educated the aristocracy. Indeed as has been well argued - they are a tool of social mobility for many.
You’ve not mentioned universal credit, tuition fees , outsourcing in the NHS, the list goes on.The article I’ve linked is fully sourced.
https://www.politico.eu/article/all-of-keir-starmers-u-turns-in-one-place/
So here’s what happened. Post Corbyn, he’s surfed on the back of his popularity, He Pledged and talked up strong social policy as was the mood of the Party at the time.
On winning the leadership contest, he swiftly purged the left of the party that had done so well in the elections. Corbyn and Abbot remain unable to stand as Labour MPs.
Then He made a beeline to big business, and assured them their profits were safe : labour (small L) will remain cheap and there will no increase in tax burden.
I did mention all of those things indirectly, because they were all in the pledges, and I mentioned all of the pledges. Those changes were all contained within the changes I acknowledged. Your argument was that the 10 pledges had been all but scrapped. I’ve shown that 5/10 still stand exactly as they were. Of the five remaining, three of them at least partly stand. So, at least half, at most 8/10, still hold up. In either case, they haven’t been all but scrapped, which is what I was asked to show.