"You can't trust politicians, they say one thing then do another."
That right there, is a sentiment shared by many people. But it got me thinking, if you can't be sure what they'll do, what you can be sure of is what they've done, specifically their voting records from parliament.
So i had a look, and went to the effort of making a chart of a few key issues and how both Corbyn and May voted on those issues.
Now i don't know about you, but i'm damn sure which of these two i'd rather have making the decisions as PM.
After reading through both these parties manifestos fully and looking through the expenditure plans of labour compared with the conservatives it makes me back labour 100%.
Just some more of the things labour have promised:
- Scrap student tuition fees
- Lower the voting age to 16
- Re-introduce the 50p rate of tax on the highest earners (above £123,000)
- Income tax rate 45p on £80,000 and above
- More free childcare, expanding free provisions for two, three and four year olds
- Guarantee triple lock for pensioner incomes
- End to zero hour contracts
- Hire 10,000 new police officers, 3,000 new firefighters
- Moves to charge companies a levy on salaries above £330,000
- Raise minimum wage to "at least £10 per hour by 2020"
- Deliver safe staffing levels and reduce waiting lists
- End hospital car parking charges
- Reverse all NHS privatisation
- NHS will receive more than £30bn in extra funding over the next parliament
- Cuts to bereavement support payment will be scrapped, as will the bedroom tax
After looking at the expenditure as I said I support the methods they will use to gather the money for this.
The reason I also feel so strongly about this is because I don't come from a well off family really at all, and my family have and/or are suffering some of these situations right now. For example my father working as a hospital porter has recently been moved from working in the NHS where he is guaranteed a pension, and a set amount of hours over to a private company where he is loosing his pension and a zero hour contract, meaning he could not go to work for a week and we'd be screwed.
Alongside this my grandmother is suffering from the problems of being on a low pension, and is not getting that triple lock, nor free services that labour want to reintroduce in their time in parliament.
Then there's the education side of it, with labour wanting to introduce the National Education System this helps provide free education to all. Now at the moment my area is going to be suffering HUGE cuts to education funding (-£24,982,235) a year, which is 670 teachers who would loose their job in my area, this could lead to things like my sixth form being closed, or teaching assistants being made redundant...
Alongside this there is tuition fees to which my cousin is still suffering with the debt of, as I imagine many of the people on here are as well. I would love to not have to pay tuition fees and if they could implement this it would be brilliant, now as much as many of you say "they can't do it, it will never happen"to me personally it makes a lot more sense to vote for the party that are at least going to attempt it compared to the Torys who have stated they will be increasing university fees per year.
For more information you are welcome to read the shortened version of the labour manifesto I made for a politics project:
http://vote.shaynorman.com/
Now I'm certainly not saying that labour is flawless and that they are going to "Make the UK great again" all I'm saying is that, from a working family's point of view, it makes loads more sense for my family to vote labour where they are aiming to support us than to vote conservatives where they have announced policies that will make it harder for my family to get by.
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