Which way for Labour economic policy?

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Labour are in a fix, they know they need a new economic policy,  but they have the same old guys who failed with economic policy in govt, aided & abetted by the Union Leaders who sponsor them.
 
Until Labour can come up with a new credible economic policy they will not, nor should they, be elected to govt., it can be done but only with some radical thought and perhaps a look at what the Nordic countries have done over the last 20 years.
Check this article from the Economist http://www.economist.com/search/apachesolr_search/Northern%20Lights
 
We need an opposition that stops navel gazing and puts this country first, acknowledges the disastrous state of our economy and gives the electorate a genuine and credible alternative
 
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tlttf. Haven't you got anything better to contribute than just snidey comments? If you paid attention, you'd know that Labour has decided (wrongly in my opinion) not to restore child benefits to higher earners. Apparently, Cameron thinks that's a bad thing - yet it was his mob who broke their election promise and removed the principle of 'universality'.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jameskirkup/100220374/pmqs-david-camerons-confusing-attack-on-labour-over-child-benefit-cuts/

Of course, if Labour decided to restore child benefits for all, people like your pal from Jersey, and possibly you, would try to portray Labour as the party of the rich, however absurd that idea might be.

I can assure you Ivan I would never class labour as a party for the rich, equally I wouldn't class them as a party for the working class, simply a bunch of chancers.

".... the lies that the Tories have been peddling for the last four years about what happened in 2008-9."

Well they would say that, wouldn't they?

"Labour should also go on full attack and nail the myth that the Tories are any good at running the economy..."

Yes a bit more attack would not go amiss. Although when I mention it, those who know about such things appear to tell me that Miliband mustn't 'show his hand' too soon and all that.

I'll never get the hang of this politics stuff...

Fortunately, the Big Bad Wolf doesn't know where we are.

We're over here!! Whoooo! Over here!

I wonder if a return to the PRINCIPLES of the Beveridge Report, combined with an intelligent argument about how they can and should apply in today's economic climate, would adequately serve Labour's policy needs?

After all, we now have Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness all over again - I'd like to see some policies that address those issues, in a rational, non-judgemental and evidence-based way.

Or is that a bit too academic and geeky?