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Ghost Dog

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5. Intelligent investment in modern infrastructure
Thu May 11, 2017, 07:10 AM
May 2017

designed and implemented using the latest techniques (including AI) and technologies, taking into account inevitable climate change and all 'externalities' where inputs into socio-economic systems come from limited resources in the planetary environment and where outputs from those systems contaminate that environment with waste, including excess heat, can help achieve:

- Keynesian stimulus
- Enable an 'industrial policy' to guide the overall economy
- Good quality jobs
- Social cohesion and stability
- Social and technological progress
- Environmental sustainability

In the energy sector, state-owned 'competitors' to the corps in each region would be a vital part of such future-focused infrastructure development.

I've gleaned a summary of the rest of the apparently leaked draft manifesto here:

Policies on housing, education, lift public sector pay cap, more police officers. Sure Start, early years funding, A&E waiting time targets. End the bedroom tax, work capability and PIP assessments; repeal of the Health and Social Care Act; no repeal of the Human Rights Act; suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Women “at least 50%” cabinet representation; extend abortion rights to Northern Ireland. Trident would be renewed; university tuition fees would go; no second Scottish referendum. £6bn a year for the NHS; £8bn over five years for social care; £250bn over 10 years on infrastructure.

On Brexit: "We will scrap the Conservatives’ Brexit white paper and replace it with fresh negotiating priorities that have a strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the single market and the customs union … immediately guarantee existing rights for all EU nationals living in Britain … reject ‘no deal’ as a viable … ensure there is no return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and that there is no change in the status or sovereignty of Gibraltar."

On immigration, it says Labour “will not make false promises on immigration numbers”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/11/the-snap-labour-leaked-manifesto-what-does-it-tell-us
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