PEF - General Election 2019 Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges

With the country standing at a crossroads and the choices between the political parties’ stark, the result will determine the future direction of the country. [...] The levels of public investment in infrastructure and the corporation tax rate would remain well within the OECD range - and would put right the UK's uncommonly low levels of investment, which have been the lowest in the OECD for each of the last 20 years. [...] But that is not how tax works, and even given the terribly low level of understanding of tax that pervades the UK I suspect enough of the electorate realise that is the case to be indifferent to the promise. [...] While the Conservatives have deregulated decarbonisation, prioritising the competitiveness of the City over a green economy, and the Liberal Democrats have proposed the return of the Green Investment Bank as a very small part of an otherwise polluting financial landscape, Labour is offering a significant programme to decarbonise the financial system and re-orient private finance towards low-carbon. [...] A will be a It also states: We will maintain funding for fisheries across the UK’s nations throughout the Parliament and support the regeneration of our coastal communities; The Conservatives say nothing about the level of funding, and fail to mention the need to cover for the lost income from the CFP subsidies.