My modest proposal
One of the things that the UK desperately needs is a massive improvement of the National Grid, so that you can put power into the system from thousands of green energy projects. Labour has a plan to do that and the headlines which followed were along the lines that “Labour plans to cover the countryside with electricity pylons. “
Replacing petrol and diesel cars with electric ones by 2030 is now “Labour’s plans to hit car drivers”, strange it was successive government’s plan until Rishi Sunak smelled some votes in burning the planet.
Building enough homes, which the country needs to do after 13 wasted years will now be “Labour will concrete over the green belt”, if not “Labour plans to concrete over the whole country”.
The cynical purpose is to try to put Labour on the back foot and make them defend policies that can be portrayed as unpopular.
It is, however, nice to see Labour propose something the Tories will have to defend. A commissioner to root out covid corruption is an obvious policy, that every party should support.
This is one policy that the Tory party may have a problem stealing from Labour. If they had had any sense they would have done this already, but instead they wrote off the billions of pounds of missing loans rather than ask for it back.
My own proposal would be to split up the thousands of missing loan repayments into handy bundles and give them to hundreds of accountancy firms, lawyers and debt collectors and let them keep 10% of the money they recover. Oh and charge every one found to have kept the money with fraud and disqualify them as company directors immediately.
I am sure if you arranged that and gave companies a 3 month amnesty to hand back the money before they are hunted down and prosecuted, the cash would flow in.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media