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First the shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Labour Party would vote in favour of chancellor George Osborne’s so-called fiscal charter (the charter would legally prevent governments from spending more than they bring in in tax revenue when the economy is growing). And then, yesterday, McDonnell appeared to do a complete U-turn. Labour will now oppose Osborne’s charter.
And so our question to you is: should this have been Labour’s position all along? Is Labour right to oppose the chancellor’s fiscal charter?
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55 Responses to “POLL: Was John McDonnell right to reject George Osborne’s fiscal charter?”
MammysLittleSoldier
Labour should have opposed it from the off…for the leadership to announce they were going to support it and then change their minds is embarrassing – makes it look like they don’t know what they are doing. Why on earth were they going to support it? What a shambles.
Alex Mason
Really? No VAT, or council tax, or TV licence or fuel duty or NI or Alcohol duty or Air passenger duty…
Cole
I didn’t vote for the Blairite. There’s no reason for Labour MPs to take orders from thuggish Corbynistas. They were properly selected by their local Labour parties and elected to parliament in May on Ed Milibsbd’s manifesto.
Cole
Unfortunately there’s unlikely to be a Labour government with incompetent fools like Corbynistas and Ronald McDonnell making prats of themselves. It’s interesting that some Corbyn supporters are already realising they made a terrible mistake.
Cole
They’ve still got to appeal to around 12 million people to win an election.