Brexit and key issues

[roverstillidie91]

Makes you wonder with the looming GE whether Labour will acknowledge the big elephant in the room.

Brexit.

What do people on here think the big issues are that Labour should be confronting?

I would also say the NHS and the public services. Need a wealth tax to pump more money into those and bring back which was previously pubic services back into public as privatization hasn't worked.

[Ldr]

NHS is an issue without doubt but a bigger issue we face is social care, the amount of delayed discharges we see due to patients not having a safe environment do be discharged to is clogging the system. By safe I am referring to the care packages needed at home, such as bath hoists, stair rails not just carers coming in x times a day. The whole system is a bit like a shower with a plughole clogged with hair atm

[roverstillidie91]

NHS is an issue without doubt but a bigger issue we face is social care, the amount of delayed discharges we see due to patients not having a safe environment do be discharged to is clogging the system. By safe I am referring to the care packages needed at home, such as bath hoists, stair rails not just carers coming in x times a day. The whole system is a bit like a shower with a plughole clogged with hair atm

Everything has a domino effect like you say when 1 thing is broken it leads to other things breaking down.

It is the same with the NHS in relation to the chronic vacancies which at 1 time was 100,000+? People get confused with the industrial action for pay but it is mainly the conditions and their job they are striking for.

They may mention they are putting extra money into the NHS however it is going to private companies. Ring a bell? Water, Railway, Energy etc this is all following the same pattern.

With the waiting list when X person is waiting for an operation because of the understaffing essentially if someone is unfit for work they stay off work longer so they aren't being productive.

If the NHS was run properly then if X person didn't have to wait for as long then they would be able to return to work sooner.

[Glyn_Wigley]

They may mention they are putting extra money into the NHS however it is going to private companies. Ring a bell? Water, Railway, Energy etc this is all following the same pattern.

The government continually play the public for mugs by always including in the figure that they say they've spent on the NHS the millions/billions thrown away on dodgy PPE contracts - not one penny of which the NHS has ever seen. And which the government has shown no interest in clawing back.

[danumdon]

The last thing Labour should be looking to prioritise is anything to do with Brexit right after the election. That's all for another day(year)

People will want to see the early shoots of recovery from a torrid period that many have had to endure, big ticket items that will just cost taxpayers more will not be welcomed. They need to be smart and think even smarter.

Things like restructuring health and social care so people can see things like waiting lists coming down and better responses to social care, should be achievable relatively soon.

If they could get the teaching profession to work with them to raise standards all around, this would be a massive boost to a large number of younger people who are growing up in a time of massive change all around them. Education is a precursor to a great many things in society and it needs to evolve in the correct direction. Too many kids leaving education not ready for the real world that has suddenly hit them, some financial and budgeting lessons and advice for leavers would not go amiss.

An attempt to fix the housing market so young people can hope to be able to get on the housing ladder should feature large.

Some restructuring as to how local council's achieve their legal requirements needs drastic action. If they're to be presented with a larger devolved budget then the whole structure of the means to distribute this needs attention, far too many councils are failing in their duties, not just through a lack of budget but with incompetent management, needs urgent attention.

Basically don't hit the ground with big demands of more of taxpayers money, that will go down like a lead balloon. Needs to see some smarts from them.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Makes you wonder with the looming GE whether Labour will acknowledge the big elephant in the room.

Brexit.

What do people on here think the big issues are that Labour should be confronting?

I would also say the NHS and the public services. Need a wealth tax to pump more money into those and bring back which was previously pubic services back into public as privatization hasn't worked.

They can't.

Brexit has utterly poisoned our politics.

It is hugely economically damaging, and is a millstone around our economic necks until the day we come to our senses and reverse it.

But that day's not yet. There are too many members of the Brexit Death Cult still around who would scream "Betrayal of Democracy" if Labour dared to raise the prospect of us Rejoining. Even though Rejoining is supported by a big majority of the population, raising the issue is the one thing that would reinvigorate and reunite the xenophobic Right. It's the single thing that could lose Labour the election.

So we cannot even discuss the single best thing that would improve our economic future.

Any surprise that Putin so supported Brexit?