It is quite a challenge to boil down the Labour manifesto to its 10 silliest ideas, but here are my nominations:
1. ‘Within a decade we will reduce average full-time weekly working hours to 32 across the economy, with no loss of pay, funded by productivity’ – as well as introducing four new bank holidays on national saints’ days and establishing a Working Time Commission to advise on raising holiday entitlements. How we are going to find the time to build Corbyn’s new Jerusalem I haven’t a clue, but it is greatly going to add to the cost of the NHS and other public services
2. ‘Introducing a legal right to collective consultation on the implementation of new technology in workplaces.’ Having claimed that it is going to pay for a 32 hour working week through productivity gains, Labour now wants a Luddite clause to enable workers to block labour-saving technology
3. A promise to end driver-only operation of trains by putting a guard on every train.
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