Bbc qt audience member mocks labour for taking uk ‘forward to 1970s'

The Labour Party unveiled its manifesto on Thursday ahead of the crunch general election on December 12. BBC Question Time debated the manifesto, with one audience member accusing Labour of

“radically taking the UK forward to the 1970s”. The audience member asked: “Is Jeremy Corbyn and Labour looking to radically take the UK forward to he 1970s?” The question was greeted with

laughter and applause from the audience, before BBC host Fiona Bruce said: “It was the launch of your manifesto today which, I don’t know what you make of that response, applause and

laughter, what’s your answer to the question?” Labour MP Richard Burgon replied: “It’s not about going backwards, it’s about going forwards. Our country can do so much better than a decade

of Conservative and Liberal Democrat austerity. “When you look at the way our NHS has been brought to the brink, when you look at the way that the use of food banks is so multiplied. “When

you look at a rotten rigged system where those at the very top are doing very well, but people in Bolton are being held back, I think our country can do better. READ MORE: BBC QT AUDIENCE

MEMBER APPLAUDED AFTER LASHING OUT AT LABOUR MP ON TAX “There’s a housing crisis, a health service crisis, there’s a crisis of debt. Wages now are less in real terms than they were a decade

ago.” The debate follows Labour launching its general election manifesto on Thursday, in which Jeremy Corbyn launched an attack on the “billionaires, the super-rich and the tax dodgers”.

Speaking in Birmingham, the Labour leader said: “Labour is on your side. And there could scarcely be a clearer demonstration of that than the furious reaction of the rich and powerful. “If

the bankers, billionaires and the establishment thought we represented politics as usual, that we could be bought off, that nothing was really going to change - they wouldn’t attack us so

ferociously.  “The billionaires and the super-rich, the tax dodgers, the bad bosses and the big polluters - they own the Conservative Party. But they don’t own us. They don’t own the Labour

Party. "The people own the Labour Party. That’s why the billionaires attack us. That’s why the billionaire-owned media makes things up about us.” In an attack on the Prime Minister, he

added: “Boris Johnson is trying to hijack Brexit to sell out our NHS and sell out working people. “The Conservatives want to use Brexit to unleash Thatcherism on steroids, to inflict more

pain on the very communities so viciously attacked by Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s, to benefit the billionaires and the vested interests they represent. “That’s why Johnson is

preparing to sell out our NHS for a US trade deal that will drive up the cost of medicines and lead to the runaway privatisation of our health service. £500 million a week of NHS money -

enough for 20,000 new nurses - could be handed to big drugs companies as part of a deal now being plotted in secret.”