Still socialist?

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Created by
Becca Khamassi

Cards (5)

  • Equality
    Old Labour:
    • 2019 Labour party manifesto pledge: raise minimum wage from £8.21-£10 hour, while also raising taxes for the rich
    New Labour:
    • Gap between richest + poorest grew under last labour gov (even though it introduced the minimum wage)
  • Economy:
    Old Labour:
    • Brown government nationalised failing banks (Northern Rock and part of Royal Bank of Scotland)
    • Corbyn pledged to create a national investment bank with £305 Billion coming from the public (to rebuild regional industries)
    New Labour:
    • Labour did not reverse Thatcher's privatisation of public utilities (when in governement)
  • Welfare:
    Old Labour:
    • Corbyn promised to take hospital cleaning back into public hands
    • 2019: manifesto: education: back to local authority not academy chairs
    • 2024: Starmer: charge private schools VAT
    New Labour
    • Cleaning in NHS was 'contracted out' to private companies under last Labour gov
    • Party encouraged businesses supporting struggling schools
  • Law + order:
    Old Labour:
    2019 manifesto: 'a presumption against prison sentences' for non-violent and non-sexual offences
    New Labour:
    • 2019: Manifesto: promised to restore prison officer numbers to 2010 levels, and get more frontline police officers
  • Foreign affairs:
    Old Labour:
    • Miliband urged his party to vote against military action in Syria in 2013 + called for greater UN engagement
    New Labour:
    • Miliband supported tough action against ISIS
    • 2015: Benn voted for action in Syria