So, Labour’s Lucy Powell states live on radio that Labour’s 2015 general election pledges are carved in stone, but nonetheless breakable! Awkward? Fear not…
The good old BBC runs with her “denial” of that which she plainly said! It seems those “world class journalists” are prepared to give her a pass EVEN though she wasn’t misquoted in any way!
BBC – “an unfortunate slip”.
Says it all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3068429/Labour-sexism-row-men-women-segregated-party-rally-critics-accuse-selling-values-votes.html..lucy powells labour party.
Pienaar has just explained, on Five Live, that it’s not what she intended to say. Once again, Labour’s BBC come to the rescue, telling us what she really meant.
That’s OK then!
The ‘promises’ are so vaguely worded as to be practically meaningless, meaning he can claim to have achieved them whatever he does.
Take ‘a strong economic foundation’. Red Ed could wreck the economy (and will if given the chance), but he could say:
‘Things might look dicey on the economic front, what with the double digit interest rates, the soaring inflation, the crippling taxes and the brain drain, but I’ve built a strong economic foundation. Re-elect me and, by golly, in five years’ time we will be the envy of the world’.
And don’t get me started on ‘An NHS with time to care’! As opposed to what? A health service that doesn’t doesn’t have time to care for patients and therefore, by definition, isn’t a health service?
And it just says “control immigration”.
They only have to stop one person coming in and they can say “we’ve controlled immigration”.
Yes, it is the vagueness of it that is the problem for me too.
They only have to deliberately let one more person in and they can say “we’ve controlled immigration”.
it means even less than that, they could increase the numbers and still claim to be controlling it , having control does not mean less.
have you noticed that the media are getting all wound up about red eds future coalition with the snp if he gets elected,but i think there is a bigger hidden danger here and that is red ed and the liberals forming a coalition, i think nick clegg is nothing but a politacal prostitute who will jump into bed with anybody because of his lust for power,have you seen nick clegg on the tv trying to present himself as a man in the middle ground in politics,who is he fooling,he is about as left wing as a fidel castro road sign,this man is desperate for power and i think the big story after the election will be red ed and nick clegg forming a even harder left goverment excluding the snp.
Indeed. Clegg has had me in stitches every time he tries to say how he would put the brakes on Labour spending. His record over the last five years shows anything but.
I have no idea what the Dems stand for. I don’t think their voters do either.
My guess is that people vote for them because they have lefty leanings, but don’t want to vote Labour or Green (perhaps because Labour is run by a socialist who looks and acts like a nerdy sixth former who’s trying desperately to appear cool, and the Greens have policies that make you wonder if someone wrote them when on an acid trip).
Their policies are a very strange mess of half digested ideas that add up to no cohesive programme whatsoever. Clegg seems to be getting something of an easy ride from the BBC recently. I get the feeling that despite never forgiving him for the Tuition fees (classic example of their phoney outrage), Auntie sees a possibility of him and Millipede forming a coalition and has amended its position accordingly.
Strange – fairly easy to access this if you dodge the craven attempt to sign you up as a Party member:
http://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto
Hi stuart. I think that’s less of a worry. Clegg could not make Miliband more disastrous. Lab/SNP would be a disaster. The SNP core hates the English and the Union and they have gone full leftard with their anti-‘austerity’ Marxist policies. However good an actress Sturgeon thinks she is, she can’t hide this hatred. Whilst I might think Clegg is a posh intellectual bantamweight with no foresight, he could only temper Miliband’s rank idiocy.
It won’t happen though. I can’t see Labour beating the Tories in the marginals. On Thursday in the LabCon marginals, the swing voters will think of their wallet, think of Balls and Miliband, and put their x in the Conservative box. There might be many dumb folk out there, but not that many.
Vote UKIP.
You were doing so well until the last sentence!
Obviously not a swing voter who can make a difference to the outcome yourself.
Do I sound like a swing voter? Yes, I’m in a marginal, but not ‘top 25’.
The Conservative (who isn’t), voted to redefine a meaning of the word ‘marriage’, without mandate, and thinks HS2 should be publicly funded. They are but two relatively minor issues which determine which party will get my vote.
Vote UKIP.
I have been severely dissapointed with the tory’s refusal to acknowledge the benefits of tories in seats that the tories cannot win, voting UKIP.
The Sun, even encouraged tories to vote Lib Dem, where the Lib Dems challenge labour, but not for them to vote UKIP in dozens of seats where UKIP challenge labour.
So please, let’s not have fake exasperation with people requesting that voters vote UKIP to stop Miliband, when the tories have done NOTHING to stop Miliband in his own constituency. Only UKIP can directly defeat Miliband there.
I only hope that tory voters in Doncaster North realise this and do the decent thing and vote UKIP.
The focus on Milliband and the SNP is a prime example as to how the BBC is bias in favour of the Tories.In fact the whole time the BBC have acted to keep the issues out of the public gaze .the issue of our so called economic recovery for example and the rise is house prices for another.By not addressing these and many other topics the BBC has successfully dumbed the election down in favour of assuming the 5 years of Toryism are a success . In my opinion they have been as successful as Mr Grant GreenSchaps get rich quick business.
I see it differently.BBC is bigging up the idea of a deal between Labour and SNP.They constantly go on about the arithmetic not adding up for Cameron .Giving the impression that ONLY Miliband can be PM.
In fact this is not confined to the BBC it’s across the media and pollsters.
manwithclap
Thanks…..Saved me saying it….
Ha ha Moco ……you about as funny as Eddie Izzard.
Take it from me Thursday is going to be a very disappointing night for you and your hypocritical, lying class war warriors.
My spies viewing postal votes openings so far have some very good news for my desired result.
What a Loadofcrapabus! Which country do you live in?
Well molesteronaschoolbus escaped from a small mobile research facility code named ‘Labours pink battle bus ‘ and now spends it’s day split between it’s 2 homes .
One a replica winter palace [made of straw, no shock there !] where it lives in a perpetual October 1917 and where it plays hunt the non beliver in the bath with it’s model of the Battleship Potemkin and the other is his week day accommodation at the Jimmy Saville memorial caravan behind the bike shed at BBC Salford !
Would that be the labour wimmins bus that was not used to ferry women to those vile segregated labour meetings? I wonder why not?
MOCO, did you see the survey results that whizzed past me, was it yesterday? 70% of people think the BBC have been biased in favour of Labour during this election. Wish I’d kept a note of the source. Have a hunt around, you may find it easily enough on the ‘net.
What happens if Prick Clegg loses his seat? What happens if,as the polls suggest, his party are wiped out? The lib dems have zero credibility left, surely even they won’t be so brazen!
It’s a worrying scenario though, we’ve seen the witches of leftwick in a group hug, (no men allowed), and even though the support of wee jimmy, the Welsh dragon and the forgetful Green koala bear is virtually lib dem sized joined together they could make up the numbers with liebour to form a gvnmnt, they all want a piece of the action!
Politics is becoming a farce in the UK, I would rule nothing out this week, one thing is for certain though, the rock is utterly worthless, liebour will literally say and do anything to get voted in, they will smile to your face and sink the knife deep when your back is turned…remember ‘bigot’ Brown. They are scum.
if the tories win seats & votes then Clegg will decide to run with them. Ironically tories should vote for lib-dems in red-yellow fights and lib dems (and UKIP) vote for tories in red-blue fights. Those 3 parties control more than 50% of the votes and effective tactical voting would obliterate labour. Just remember – a LibDem MP might (probably will) join with the Conservatives – a Labour one won’t.
It just gets more and more like “The Thick of It” with each day. I can almost hear Malcolm Tucker cursing the cloth eared bint.
It really irritates me when the Liberal Democrats and certain Tories like Matthew Parris talk about the ‘Centre Ground’ which is where in their conceit they place themselves politically.
Attention smug Onanists – it is not for you to deem yourselves to be on the centre ground. We the voters will decide that, thanks very much.
The worst part of all this is not that she’s a useless party stooge, but having said it, instead of either apologising or making some excuse, she attempted to blame other people for miss quoting her.
It doesn’t matter though, she could tell her constituents that Labour would make them all homeless to make way for immigrants, and force them to be their house slave, and they’d still vote her in !
Oh lord it’s Ted Miliband….Obviously it’s from ITV because al-beeb would never dream of embarrassing their hero..
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2015-05-05/exclusive-ed-milibands-first-ever-tv-appearance-as-a-fresh-faced-student/
Good grief, it’s Howard out of The Big Bang Theory,
He apparently changed his name to Ed, from Ted, after he unsuccessfully applied to join the Bullington Club… Which explains a hell of a lot about why he is the way he is.
At least they’re not carved in cast-iron or we’d really have reason to doubt….
The suppressed fury in the populace is positively monumental….Does anyone honestly think they actually grasp this?
I’m really not sure.
I think the bbc and liebour are in for a shock. Tony Livesey was on the 5 live around the country politics show, all impartial of course, this afternoon, during it he visited a factory and interviewed three young workers.
Straight away I thought, ‘bbc planted brainwashed lefty yoof who listen to Russell Brand’..how wrong I was. One voted tory, one voted UKIP and the other was undecided but was veering towards lib dems!!
When asked about the economy they all said they were better off and didn’t want to rock the boat. Livesey even rolled out the old cliches, no money in pockets, living crisis..blah,blah,blah, but to no avail.
He then went on a walkabout desperately looking for someone to ‘balance’ the argument..not one person mentioned liebour, you could hear the desperation in Livesey’s voice.
It actually gave me hope that there are many people who just don’t listen to the bbc bull, the quiet majority who don’t feel the need to tell everyone how progressive and righteous they are and clap like lunatics at every soundbite.
The bbc admit now that the undecided’s are going to make the difference, lets hope they are deciding on Tory or UKIP, I think people remember what a disaster liebour really were.
seems like stuart could be right,channel 4 news has just reported ed millband has offered nick clegg a coaltion pact to keep the torys out.