Course it doesn't help poorer, working people mate.
Some folks would clearly rather the economy slide into the abyss at the hands of the party who took us to the brink last time. One of two things will happen - either Labour will not honour many of their promises (just like they did 1997-2010) and destroy the recovery or they'll have to make cuts and will wind up hurting the people/services they claim they exist to help.
It makes me laugh that the party which claims to be so against privatisation within the NHS introduced so much of it via PFI etc. That fact that some people still fail to see that fact says as much about their grasp of reality as it does Labour's integrity.
They bang on about the top rate of tax being too low yet, IIRC, it's higher now than virtually the entire period they were in office, being changed only just before the last election. How's that for Labour duplicity? They raise pathetic stuff like this at election time because they know the usual suspects will fall for it.