With the dropping of the Disability Rights pledge Keir Starmer thinks Labour is just about ready to deliver their simple message that won’t get bogged down with quibbling about finances and implementation. Their only pledge is that they are not Tories.
A team of Labour tacticians are checking to see if they have unequivocally dropped every pledge ever made by the Labour Party. At the party conference in Liverpool Vicky Foxcroft, shadow minister for disabled people, confirmed that the Party had dropped its commitment to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Party apparatchiks are checking through pledge lists to ensure they have all been removed. They are checking in case other things count as pledges such as the Scout Oath. If they count as oaths then they will have to drop those as well.
Marriage vows might also have to be dropped just to be on the safe side.
Scrapping private schools’ charitable status. Dropped.
Ending the two-child limit for benefits. Dropped.
Scrapping tuition fees. Dropped.
Increasing income tax for the top five per cent of earners. Dropped.
Nationalisation of public services. Dropped.
Freedom of movement. Dropped.
£28 billion ‘green prosperity plan’. Dropped.
No new North sea oil and gas. Dropped.
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