PIP is neither a sickness benefit nor a barrier to work, in the latter case quite the reverse and created by the Conservatives on that understanding, but how many times do those points have to be made? What if all the youths on benefits did indeed take up litter picking or what have you? Where would the money for the arms companies come from then? Andy Burnham has in any case ruled out "defence" spending at the level the lack of which was what officially caused John Healey to resign from Keir Starmer's Cabinet. Yet look at Healey now.
And if he has them, then Burnham's plans for council tax and for stamp duty may be right or may be wrong, but they do not call for a General Election. Whatever, if anything, Burnham has in mind, then it will be nothing that the Labour manifesto had ruled out. By contrast, the Poll Tax had been in the Conservative manifesto that had won a landslide in 1987, but as soon as its implementation threatened to lose that party's MPs their seats, then they ditched both it and the Prime Minister behind it, restoring the rates in all but name. That was one of the most flagrant breaches of a manifesto in modern times, and had it not happened, then the Conservative Party would have been wiped out, surviving today, if at all, as a website run from someone's house.
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