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Originally Posted by Product 13
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Well their strategy seems fairly clear. Throw mud at the opposition and fire bovine excreta at us with no regard for fiscal responsibility.
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Labour will offer guaranteed levels of public service with rights of redress where they are not met. It will pledge to let patients go private if they are not treated by the NHS in time and to double paid paternity leave to four weeks.
Mr Brown will insist that Labour is offering “no big new spending commitments”, making a virtue of the necessity imposed by the deficit. Labour has attacked Tory proposals for tax breaks for married couples and a scaling back of the planned rise in NI as economically irresponsible.
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The first paragraph is hysterical in the context of the second one.
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It will also promise to increase the minimum wage and outline new measures to tackle youth unemployment.
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Both of which will evidently cost nothing significant. Minimum wage increase and increase in paid paternity leave are both quite strongly anti-business measures. Brown appears to have sloughed off any pretence at being centrist now and is pushing a populist and potentially harmful left-wing socialist agenda with total ignorance to the costs of his bribes both to the public and private sector.