Labour have already announced that they have stolen the Tories plans on Inheritance Tax and non-doms – and now they’re at it again.

This policy that Andy Burnham, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has just announced shows that Labour has no ideas or policies of their own. He claimed in an interview in the Telegraph today that there is a “moral case” for promoting the traditional family through the tax system – despite rejecting the policy in July when it was proposed by IDS, claiming that it would “discriminate” against some families.

So either they have decided that, actually, it doesn’t discriminate or they just don’t care that it does. Neither scenario is good for Labour.

What this shows is that Labour really do have no unique policies of their own. Brown is not leading the country but following the Conservatives. Osborne hit the nail on the head when he said:

Brown is obviously trying to shoot the foxes of Tory policies by claiming that he has the same. But considering that people are already pissed off at the fact that the two main parties are so close together in all but rhetoric, Brown’s attempts to make them even closer again will just disillusion people with him and his so-called “vision” for the country.

Stealing policies is one thing, but at least try and put some time between the policies you steal and longer between when they were first made and when you steal them. Labour just look even more weak, ineffective, and vision-less the more they poach Tory policies. Brown’s trying to win over the middle classes – he won’t this way. They are cleverer than that.

Image: Andy Burnham
Sources: BBC – article 1, article 2, article 3; The Telegraph