The 2019 Manifesto offered the real deal: ‘We will bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
'A long-term ambition of greater public control of essential services such as water, housing, energy and transport...' is not a plan to nationalise industries and utilities. 'Greater public control' is shorthand for private ownership...
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Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system
Expected next prime minister focuses on restoring faith in politics, cost of living and devolution in major speech
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July 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The 2019 Manifesto offered the real deal: ‘We will bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
The real deal was in touching distance a few short years ago!
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
As Labour grandee Alf Dubs says, Shabana Mahmood's 'performative cruelty' asylum & immigration bill (backed by Starmer & Burnham) would mean Jewish children escaping Nazis on the kinderstransport would have been handcuffed & sent back to die in the gas chambers.
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees
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July 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The real deal was in touching distance a few short years ago!
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
Then he can get started on this kind of thing (again, he won't)...
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
If Andy Burnham is really who he pretends to be (he's not), setting up an inquiry into complicity in genocide would be his first action, followed by the release & compensation for all those jailed for protesting for action in Palestine. Then he'd cancel the bill to scrap the right to trial by jury.
July 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Then he can get started on this kind of thing (again, he won't)...
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
The 2019 Labour Manifesto was derided by MSM despite being fully costed, and nowhere did it promise £37 billion for a useless phone app... ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukma...
#CouldHaveHad
#WhyWeWereStopped
#CouldHaveHad
#WhyWeWereStopped
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December 19, 2024 at 9:48 AM
The 2019 Labour Manifesto was derided by MSM despite being fully costed, and nowhere did it promise £37 billion for a useless phone app... ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukma...
#CouldHaveHad
#WhyWeWereStopped
#CouldHaveHad
#WhyWeWereStopped
Another not a Burnham policy...
‘We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
If you think Andy Burnham is the solution to Sir Keir Starmer, you need to outsource your thinking.
July 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Another not a Burnham policy...
‘We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We’ll ask those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:44 PM
‘We will put people and planet before profit by bringing our energy and water systems into democratic public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
A thread: Why socialist Labour was stopped...
‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
A thread: Why socialist Labour was stopped...
‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
‘We will stop MPs from taking paid second jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver nearly 90% of electricity and 50% of heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
‘We will deliver nearly 90% of electricity and 50% of heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will give the NHS the funding it needs, end privatisation, and never let our health service be up for grabs in any trade negotiation.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 PM
‘We will give the NHS the funding it needs, end privatisation, and never let our health service be up for grabs in any trade negotiation.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
‘We will ensure that refugees have the right to work, access to public services and will be treated humanely by government at all levels.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will end and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
‘We will end and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 2:37 PM
‘We will bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership to end the great privatisation rip-off and save you money on your fares and bills.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will replac(e) the DWP on day one with a Department for Social Security, which will be there to help and support people, not punish and police them.' – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM
‘We will replac(e) the DWP on day one with a Department for Social Security, which will be there to help and support people, not punish and police them.' – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will act immediately to end the hereditary principle in the House of Lords, and work to abolish the House of Lords.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 2:24 PM
‘We will act immediately to end the hereditary principle in the House of Lords, and work to abolish the House of Lords.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver improvements for rail passengers by bringing our railways back into public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 4:57 PM
‘We will deliver improvements for rail passengers by bringing our railways back into public ownership.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will change how politics is funded, banning donations from tax avoiders and tax evaders, and closing loopholes that allow the use of shell companies to funnel dark money into politics.' – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM
‘We will change how politics is funded, banning donations from tax avoiders and tax evaders, and closing loopholes that allow the use of shell companies to funnel dark money into politics.' – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will take urgent action to protect private renters through rent controls, open-ended tenancies, and new, binding minimum standards.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 28, 2024 at 3:55 PM
‘We will take urgent action to protect private renters through rent controls, open-ended tenancies, and new, binding minimum standards.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will introduce A Right to Food. We will end ‘food bank Britain’. We will ensure everyone has access to healthy, nutritious, sustainably produced food.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 5:49 PM
‘We will introduce A Right to Food. We will end ‘food bank Britain’. We will ensure everyone has access to healthy, nutritious, sustainably produced food.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will scrap Universal Credit. We will immediately stop moving people onto it and design an alternative system that treats people with dignity and respect.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 PM
‘We will scrap Universal Credit. We will immediately stop moving people onto it and design an alternative system that treats people with dignity and respect.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
A GREAT thread! It lists 33 progressive policies of the 2019 Labour Manifesto, reminding us of what we #CouldHaveHad & follows up suggesting #WhyWeWereStopped
🇬🇧 was CHEATED of a Progressive government. Right-wing Labour leaders SABOTAGED Labour's chances in the 2019 GE, paving the way for the coup.
🇬🇧 was CHEATED of a Progressive government. Right-wing Labour leaders SABOTAGED Labour's chances in the 2019 GE, paving the way for the coup.
April 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A GREAT thread! It lists 33 progressive policies of the 2019 Labour Manifesto, reminding us of what we #CouldHaveHad & follows up suggesting #WhyWeWereStopped
🇬🇧 was CHEATED of a Progressive government. Right-wing Labour leaders SABOTAGED Labour's chances in the 2019 GE, paving the way for the coup.
🇬🇧 was CHEATED of a Progressive government. Right-wing Labour leaders SABOTAGED Labour's chances in the 2019 GE, paving the way for the coup.
‘We will create a new UK National Energy Agency to own and maintain the national grid infrastructure and oversee the delivery of our decarbonisation targets.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
‘We will create a new UK National Energy Agency to own and maintain the national grid infrastructure and oversee the delivery of our decarbonisation targets.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will Deliver gender pay equality by making the state responsible for enforcing equal pay legislation for the first time.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 28, 2024 at 1:00 PM
‘We will Deliver gender pay equality by making the state responsible for enforcing equal pay legislation for the first time.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM
‘We will deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
‘We will lead the world in fighting 9environmental emergency), with a plan to drive up living standards by transforming our economy into one low in carbon, rich in good jobs, radically fairer and more democratic.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
November 27, 2024 at 3:22 PM
‘We will lead the world in fighting 9environmental emergency), with a plan to drive up living standards by transforming our economy into one low in carbon, rich in good jobs, radically fairer and more democratic.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped