In relation to a post on his facebook page.
Why don't you then follow what most of the Icelandic countries have done, and make University tuition free. People need to graduate and not be worried about whether they will get a job and be able to pay their debts back. It has worked in Norway, Iceland and others. It was working fine in Australia until the National/Liberal party returned to power and trashed it.
Highly educated people need to assisted into brightening the future for others. The one thing Labour must not do again, is make themselves the same mistake of over borrowing. Also trying to stay away from IMF borrowing would be another good thing. A lot of the rich in the country are more than willing to pay their proportionate share of taxes, but under a system where they don't need to, they generally won't.
I have traditionally been a Labour supporter when I was in Australia, and when I came here, I saw a very weakened version of it in operation. It was depressing as a Labour government needs a good strong leader. I have seen you write and seen you speak, and there is a huge difference. You have a good potential sir, so please, bring that out. Also, since the Greens have similar policies to Labour, might I suggest in ridings where Labour candidates are under pressure to back Green candidates on a policy equality idea. That way, you will have decent environmental and social minded input from those who would refuse to Vote either the Left or Right wing of the same bird.
I emailed you a few months ago, and I hope that you took what I said, if you got to read it, on board. I am still undecided, and have not seen anything that is going to make me switch from a Green vote at the moment. A better outline of what you are going to do, other than vaguely written two or three liners will sway me back. I would like to see a coherent thought out strategy of how the Labour party is going to reduce deficit while at the same time increasing spending back into Burroughs and Disability as well as increasing the military and education sectors.
One thing I learned from one of the most hated men in the Australian Labour party, and in my opinion, one of the best we have had since Gough Whitlam, Paul Keating, was that a strong fiscal stance, an "somewhat" honest and informative lead up to election time with details and figures, not just sentences, and the willingness to bite the bullet on a lot of issues and admit past mistakes, will give you a better rapport with voters who are sick of feeling like mushrooms. This is the internet age, where we can go check the numbers for ourselves that we don't see in the press. We can go read actual economic policies from the last few hundred years in books and online, and not just read page 3 of the Sun or whatever Murdoch inspired paper you want to read.
Give us the respect that we are all a thinking electorate, even though we may not show it, we have an interest in it. Also, UKIP is an indicator of the distrust in the system. They won't be a threat too much, some seats will be gained, but unless you don't learn the lessons from pre-Cameron power, then they may have a better chance. UKIP is the sign of cancer in the body that is the voting public. It is an indicator of what organs are starting to fail, and the why it is failing. Figuring that out will give you a better understanding of what the British electorate needs in a few months time. We need a fully consultative and honest talk on compassion inspired immigration, we need to have a talk about disability, education and a free press. We need to have discourse regarding the inability of Westminster to come clean with the skeletons in its closets on institutionalized pedophilia and other major scandals that are happening in the press to distract us from the election. We also need to talk about the eroding rights of citizens with the net, the corporate takeovers of the NHS, and other institutions to companies such as Boston Dynamics, Monsanto and other US companies that don't need to be hired when we have British and Commonwealth as well as EU ones that can do the same. Discourse on the trade relationship between the Commonwealth would be a great road to keep moving a fantastic and mutually beneficial institution alive and modernized.
These are things that we need to talk about. Things that the electorate need to be informed about. I could keep writing, but I am afraid that I will wear out my keyboard.
Best of luck to the Labour party, what are you going to do to win back my vote?
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