Labour manifesto

Subject: Labour manifesto

On the eve of the Labour Parties manifesto some of the ideas are percolating out like steam from a kettle. Nationalisation. Municipal built housing. Different targets for taxation. Larger amounts of money spent on the NHS. Significantly more money spent on Education. The list is comprehensive and differs from the Tories by the way that it is inclusive not exclusive. It's a plan to make the infrastructure comprehensive for the bulk of the people not the for the exclusive benefit of the well off. It deals in a radical turnaround of a ship of state which has sailed into the ideological backwater of privatisation as the only answer, where the incentive to build a house is to put profit first before the needs of the people at large. Our insistence that only the 'free market' can provide an end result, predicated by the avoidance of the fact that money distorts everything. The will to do the right thing is lost in the intervention of profit and avarice. 
This compulsion to allow everything to be driven by private money is a con. 
The houses that are built by market driven builders are priced by a market that puts them beyond the means of the majority. The few that are built with a reasonable price tag, supposedly to conform to a national or municipal requirement, that a percentage of new build housing is affordable is often side channeled and somehow never get built as part of the new estate. And when affordable housing gets built or houses appear on the older estates they are snaffled up by the housing speculator who, after a lick of paint puts them on the market to rent, a rent often paid through the benefit system. 
So in effect, as with the low paid wage exploitation in so many of our industries, where the wages paid  are insufficient to allow a person to pay cover their bills and the government has to step in and in effect supplement the employer by topping up the wage, so it is in the housing market where often the taxpayer actually pays the private landlord.  
The system is a scandal, a con contrived by conservative government to stimulate middle England.  Instead of paying this horrendous bill to 'private enterprise' we have instead to reverse Mrs Thatchers plunder of the countries stock of housing and build new stock controlled by the municipalities for rent only. We have to envision a country which takes its responsibility seriously and one of the first of these is to House its people. The second is educate those people and whilst I accept great strides have been made since I went to school the inequality between private and public education is a disaster since it determines the life chances of both groups, to the detriment of the majority. The influx of migrants has added to huge pressure on Schools and the Heath service, an artificial pressure the adherents of immigration don't seem to acknowledge. Only a massive upgrading of the system both health and in education can remedy the falling standards.
Where does the money come from. 
Well the Tories have persistently reduced taxation across the board. It has followed the American model of allowing earnings to be largely kept by the individual on the assumption that profit will enhance society at large by expansion in the business sector and the creation of new jobs. The fact that many of theses jobs have to be subsidised by the public purse is seen as incidental. 
The infrastructure, roads, education (excluding the private sector),  health (excluding the private sector), policing, refuse removal and the administration of local government have all be paid out of a dwindling pot of money. The ideological blind spot of the conservative has always been the preservation of individual wealth and not recognising  the contribution of that part of our society which goes to work each day to provide these services. To the Tory everyone is an entrepreneur,  those that aren't don't count, they are discarded as being without ambition, lazy, stupid and illiterate, the Dalits or Untouchables  within our society.
Corbyn's life long challenge has been to change this ideology of self centred preservation to the exclusion of all else and whilst this manifesto seems radical to the established theocracy of neoliberalism, it actually harks back to the days of Clement Attlee's government acknowledged to be one of the best most inclusive governments this country has ever seen.