the full employment thing has less popularity because no one has any interest in being seen to propose to pay people to do nothing,
You seem to be agreeing with Thatcher and the big business bosses that British business (and the government) needed to be 'slimmed out' in the 80s and beyond.
There's loads of work around - people are working two jobs just to pay then rent, loads of council employees have gone so litter isn't being collected and footpaths aren't being cut and parks aren't being kept as well as they were. Ever since '79, millions of people people have been got rid of and the workload transferred to the people staying or the work just isn't being done.
Even though productivity has gone up steadily wages haven't, the money has gone to the bosses instead. We need more nurses and people building homes and smaller class sizes with kids being taught by proper teachers. We should be making sure peoples' houses are well insulated and they have solar panels and battery back up. We should be making renewable equipment in Britain. There's loads of things around Britain that need doing to stop it turning into a shithole.
and the student fees has political sympathy, but its not in the top five of anyones list, and no one is going to choose students over housing or NHS spending,
So you agree with the tories and lib dems on this one, too. Quantitative easing (always assuming people would buy the bonds after brexit but you'd think they might - I would with any spare cash) would mean you don't have to do it or housing or NHS spending because you'd be doing all of them. It's a disgusting policy to saddle poor and lower-middle-class kids with tens of thousands of pounds of debt before they even get into a job (rich kids no problem) that will hang over some of them for 20 years. Particularly after our generation has benefited from free education and then pulled the drawbridge up again.
it fits fully in the nice to have catagory - but the rest of it could be written in the personal manifesto of any Lab MP from Yvette Cooper leftwards.
The blairite way of raising money that nearly all? labour MPs signed up to was to privatize it using PFI, I could quite see a 'centrist' giving it another round. She's come out against quantitative easing so how do you raise the money? 'Blooper Cooper threatens HUGE tax rises on hard working people - that's YOU' would be all over the papers.
Corbyns problem has never been his domestic economic agenda, its him personally, his defence/overseas agenda, and his baggage. the polling supports that - when people are asked about anonymised policies they, from all over the political spectrum, give high approval ratings to the policies you've outlined above. however, as soon as you put Corbyns name next to them you may as well have suggested drowning puppies while getting your knob out in a junior school, the approval ratings for those polices nosedive.
its him, the electorate - and i take this from polling and my own doorknocking experience - don't like him. they don't trust him or like what he stands for and who his friends are in the defence/security/overseas sphere, and they don't think he could run a whelk stall, let alone a government, in the domestic sphere.
And after the pasting corbyn has had in the press any labour mp you'd choose to name would soon enough be "like suggesting drowning puppies while getting your knob out in a junior school". Photos of bacon sarnies, them not bowing deeply enough at a commemoration, them being anti-semite because they want israel to stop building settlements on Palestinian land. Six months of that and it would be 'Last person to leave Britain turn the lights out' again.
You wouldn't trust any of them with a whelk stall after the Mail and the Sun got after them. To me it's policies that are important, not personalities.
If Labour's ratings don't improve I think I'd like to see him hand over some months before an election to someone younger but it would have to be someone that supports his policies and doesn't just pay lip service to get power and then get on with Business as Normal. I doubt there are too many of those tbh. They'd be what you'd accuse of being Corbynite groupies or cultists.
