CV19. What would the Labour party have done?

[Wacky Racer]

We now see Labour party voters sticking the boot in blaming Boris and the Conservatives for their response to this crisis, but what could they have done any differently?

They still would have had to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds to help people out, during lockdown, otherwise there would have been riots, maybe they might have introduced it a week or so earlier, but I can't really see how things would have been handled much better.

This is a question aimed mainly at PH Labour supporters.

[StevieBee]

Wacky Racer said:

This is a question aimed mainly at PH Labour supporters.

The lack of replies suggest there's not many - or that they recognise that Labour would have done nothing substantially different.

As a non-labour supporter, I have been impressed by their restraint not to politicise the issue. The temptation must have been great. They have for the most part been doing what a good opposition should do - scrutinise, question and hold the government to account. This, it must be said, is at a party level - there are plenty of labour supporters trying their best to demonstrate all that is wrong with 'Tory Scum' in their usual joyless, shallow and unintellectual manner.

Fact is that the conservatives have been very Labour-like in their response.

[anonymous-user]

StevieBee said:

Wacky Racer said:

This is a question aimed mainly at PH Labour supporters.

The lack of replies suggest there's not many - or that they recognise that Labour would have done nothing substantially different.

As a non-labour supporter, I have been impressed by their restraint not to politicise the issue. The temptation must have been great. They have for the most part been doing what a good opposition should do - scrutinise, question and hold the government to account. This, it must be said, is at a party level - there are plenty of labour supporters trying their best to demonstrate all that is wrong with 'Tory Scum' in their usual joyless, shallow and unintellectual manner.

Fact is that the conservatives have been very Labour-like in their response.

Whilst Starmer has avoided politicising things too much, Dodds, Ashworth, Lammy and Milliband, to name four, have done their best to do so.

Their best isn’t very good, though.

[JagLover]

If elected they would have been coming into office in December and had many issues on their plate.

Therefore it seems a reasonable assumption that the key non ministerial figures would have been the same under both administrations.

PHE would have been the same, as would Sage no doubt.

Economic response would have been different and they would have no doubt seized the opportunity to nationalise vast swathes of the economy.

[don'tbesilly]

REALIST123 said:

StevieBee said:

Wacky Racer said:

This is a question aimed mainly at PH Labour supporters.

The lack of replies suggest there's not many - or that they recognise that Labour would have done nothing substantially different.

As a non-labour supporter, I have been impressed by their restraint not to politicise the issue. The temptation must have been great. They have for the most part been doing what a good opposition should do - scrutinise, question and hold the government to account. This, it must be said, is at a party level - there are plenty of labour supporters trying their best to demonstrate all that is wrong with 'Tory Scum' in their usual joyless, shallow and unintellectual manner.

Fact is that the conservatives have been very Labour-like in their response.

Whilst Starmer has avoided politicising things too much, Dodds, Ashworth, Lammy and Milliband, to name four, have done their best to do so.

Their best isn’t very good, though.

Dodds does nothing other than criticise, when challenged over what she would do she waffles and goes around in a circle to where she started, criticising what the Tories are doing, and in particular what Sunak has/is doing.

If Dodds is the best Labour have to offer as a shadow Chancellor Sunak is not going to be losing any sleep, and Starmer presents no threat with the likes of Ashworth and Lammy doing the same as Dodds, offering nothing substantive as an alternative but sticking an ill-placed boot into the fray.