Ed gets a pasting

Wookster

ILW wrote: »

I heard the interview, and Miliband was incapable of coming up with a single alternative to what the current government are doing with the exception of saying "we would go for growth" which he could not substantiate. It was getting embarrasing, and Evan Davis is I believe, a labour supporter.

It was excruciating. Every sentence reminded me of what a lightweight he is. Asked about opposing cuts, he disagreed saying that he had supported 3 programs, one of which included a high speed rail link (can't remember which) which was valued at £300m. Just goes to show how utterly uncomprehending they are of the scale of the deficit!

DervProf

The credit card bill is huge, the monthly interest is massive and the current lifestyle is adding large amounts to the balance. Labour want to reduce the Sky subscription (cancel the film channels) and possibly switch from Waitrose to Sainsbury's while waiting for a (big) pay rise.

The conservatives/lib dems are cancelling Sky and shopping at Aldi. They are also selling the Jag and getting a VW Polo.

baby_boomer

Ed's also getting a pasting on his forthcoming marriage.

Apparently he never got round to tying the knot because he was too busy.

So is he now less busy with an extra baby and his leadership of the Labour Party ?



Or is he rather pathetically kow-towing to the Daily Mail?

ILW

I do not with anything Ed Balls says or does, but at least he seems more of a leader. Milliband is obviously not. (As Brown) Not that I would vote labour after the complete hash they made of the last decade or so.

CloudCuckooLand

Labour just don't get that "halving the deficit in this term" means our total debt is still going to be increasing throughout a second term, that paying the interest on that debt is already above the entire Defence budget, and will just go on growing for another 9 years.

Its not just about what would they cut now. Which they do not know (or admit to).

Its also about what they would cut then, when 30%+ cuts might be necessary. Which they dare not even mention.

Of course its all moot, as the markets would have hammered the UK long before the end of this term, let alone the next one, if we weren't doing what we are doing.

ILW

I wish the bloke would get his adenoids fixed.
What is it with labour that lately they seem to keep picking people with odd manerisms to be their leaders.

chewmylegoff

given that their pool of prospective leaders is fast becoming a bunch of nerds who went straight from school to uni to political researcher to safe parliamentary seat, it's becoming more and more unlikely that any of the parties are going to be able to magic up a leader who isn't a bit of a weirdo. you'd think they'd still be able to find someone who didn't move his mouth like wallace from wallace and grommit though.

B_Blank

CloudCuckooLand wrote: »

Labour just don't get that "halving the deficit in this term" means our total debt is still going to be increasing throughout a second term, that paying the interest on that debt is already above the entire Defence budget, and will just go on growing for another 9 years.

Its not just about what would they cut now. Which they do not know (or admit to).

Its also about what they would cut then, when 30%+ cuts might be necessary. Which they dare not even mention.

Of course its all moot, as the markets would have hammered the UK long before the end of this term, let alone the next one, if we weren't doing what we are doing.

Agree

HAHAHAHAH @ Ed Miliband if he thinks he could get away with his half the defecit over 4 years plan. The markets would politely tell ed, either you cut it all within 4 years or you will pay 7% to borrow money and go broke!

The debate isnt how fast you cut the defecit. We simply have no choice on this, and ed miliband saying we do is either imcompetent or dishonest. The debate is HOW we cut the defecit (the proportion of tax rises to spending cuts). The truth is labour would raise income tax, vat, inheritance tax and stamp duty just to keep the Diversity Officers in place. Or just to keep paying the civil servants thousands of pounds more than they are worth every year.

Labour are unelectable!

Graham_Devon

ILW wrote: »

I do not with anything Ed Balls says or does, but at least he seems more of a leader. Milliband is obviously not. (As Brown) Not that I would vote labour after the complete hash they made of the last decade or so.

Trouble with Ed Balls, is, as a political commentator likened him the other days, he seems closer to Alistair Campbell, labour spin doctor, than he does to a real MP.

Every word he seems to utter is an attack or seriously spun. To the point recently of all out lies. Even in the face of people telling him it was complete fabrication that he could reduce VAT on the fuel element, he kept on saying it.

He'll most likely end up as labour leader though....for all the wrong reasons. Labour don't seem to be too concerned with politics, and seem more concerned with totally trashing the opposition by whatever means neccesary. So for them, Ed Balls would seem a great leader.

B_Blank

chewmylegoff wrote: »

given that their pool of prospective leaders is fast becoming a bunch of nerds who went straight from school to uni to political researcher to safe parliamentary seat, it's becoming more and more unlikely that any of the parties are going to be able to magic up a leader who isn't a bit of a weirdo. you'd think they'd still be able to find someone who didn't move his mouth like wallace from wallace and grommit though.

True. So many lightweights in parliment to be honest. Including Cameron. He is a nice guy, of that I have no doubt, but he is so inexperienced.

I want the PM to be someone who has extensive business experience. If they are to run UK PLC then I would like them to have run something in their lifetime!

Another one I CANT STAND is DOUG ALEXANDER - the shadow foreign secretary. He is so awful. He is just a spin machine who sucked up to the top guys and got given a safe labour seat and now is shadow foriegn secretary (how???). It makes no sense. He is so annoying.