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Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges (www.joe.co.uk)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Sharing this mainly because it pointed me towards FullFact's Government Tracker, which looks handy. According to them, only one pledge has not been kept, on the National Wealth Fund:

“Capitalised with £7.3 billion over the course of the next Parliament, the National Wealth Fund will have a remit to support Labour’s growth and clean energy missions”

And three others are 'Off track', while six are 'Unclear or disputed'.

Those that have been achieved include:

delivering an extra two million NHS operations, scans and appointments, recognising a Palestinian state, introducing a Football Governance Bill, ending the use of offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax and abolishing non-dom status.

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dare you to hold up a piece of paper saying "I support Palestine Action" in your local town centre then.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It's deeply wrong for numerous reasons and I posted stuff against it on this very sub at the time it was happening. But it not does constitute 'censoring any opposition to the policies they don’t have a mandate for'. As I also said to !HumanPenguin@feddit.uk, this sub probably couldn't exist at all if the government were doing this.