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2. Actually, if Britain stays in the EU....
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 09:20 AM
Aug 2017

...then much of the Labour platform is actually quite affordable. The only idea that has had to be discarded for cost reasons is the extremely laudable but unrealistic idea of abolishing student debt.

However, Corbyn is as wedded to leaving the EU, and the inevitable economic suicide and collapse of government revenue that will follow as the Tories are. That's where the problems are for Labour's policy platform and funnily enough, it's a policy designed to try and appease the same sort of elderly voters who are being attacked in this video!

Also worth bearing in mind that the Tories platform was just as uncosted as Labour's, which made their "magic money tree" attacks on Corbyn during the general election a lot less effective.

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