This isn't going to go well

Oh dear, it seems Theresa May is really Ed Miliband in disguise. ( See "Conservative" manifesto for details. )

No wonder so much Conservative effort has been put into trying to kill UKIP off, they are trying to close the escape hatch for their principles free market, pro-freedom leaning membership.

I doubt it will work.

Also as Theresa heads left its worth remembering she's just blazing the trail for the even more left wing Labour govt that will one day replace the Conservatives.One day they will thank her for all the concessions and push further towards the socialist disaster they so fervently wish to deliver us all to.

PS Blogging very light to to real politics at ground level - it takes up a lot of time. I'm still tweeting away though.

I suspect there will be much to blog about as the real Theresa May makes herself known ...

Labour: the flood gates open were opened to win more votes

Why is there a shortage of housing in the South East ?

Why can't our youth get jobs ? (ok the Labour education system has a case to to answer here also.)

The answer to both is Labour opened the floodgates to immigration and they did it to germander future elections.

A bit extreme ? Do I need to put my tin foil hat back on ?

No because we all know this as it was reported in 2010. See here.

So when Red Ed gets out his dog whistle for white working class votes today remember he's just misleading you straight to your face (political lying)  about his past and future intention.

PS Note that the BBC ( in particular Radio 4 Today ) buys it all - doing its usual biased trick of reporting on something that is going to be said, so not allowing comeback from those who have a different take on events.

RedEd will fail on his half baked education ideas

More apprenticeships ? Skills for those that need them ? Who could argue against that ? ( Well nobody of course - and each government in its turn tries to do something on these lines ).

Why do they fail ?

Because these schemes are usually half baked and in the pocket of the educational establishment, whose main aim is the detention of 50% of the over 16 population who should be in work, having been taught the basics of who to read and add numbers up in the previous 11 years of full time education.

But then RedEd's policy isn't serious - its just all about cynical manipulation and triangulation. His focus groups will have approved it as most likely to deceive voters.

Labour have *never* understood the world of business. They're legions of state sector employed only / professional political class just see technical things as the stuff the unwashed do.

Its business as usual from the British political class and is most cynical chapter the career Labour politicians.

Labour need to face up to just how bad Ed Miliband is

Just watched Ed Miliband walk straight into the eager left wing sixth former elephant trap laid out for him by George Osborne on the 50p tax rate.

What's worse, for Labour, is how he did it. He seemed to think he was addressing the young fabians - not parliament and the nation. All the old class war type calls were in there - but he seemed oblivious to the fact that the messages he was putting out were putting of the voters his party - if it had any sense - should target.

Labour lack all credibility on financial matters. ( That's what wrecking a top world economy in 13 years does for your reputation. ) Ed should have sounded humble, agreed with a few points but tacked Osborne on growth.

Instead we got the I'm standing to be president of the student Labour club address.

I've seen some tweets from normally sane Labour people praising young RedEd's performance - they must have their fingers crossed as they type. ( Which is surprisingly difficult as I've just tried it. )

Surely they realise he has to go don't they ?

PS At least two items from my budget wish list ( neither of which I will personally benefit from ), and a few other things that I will ( esp tax threshold increase ). So I'm broadly happy - but would like to see the state rolled back faster.

Brown and Miliband(jnr)'s cowardice left many innocent people open to having their privacy violated

Ah how have I come to that conclusion ?

Well first let me tell you an abridged personal story.

Many years ago I was the victim of an assault by someone I knew, but wouldn't be seeing again. The question was do I involve the police ? The temptation not to and get the whole thing out of the way was immense, but then I remembered that the same character flaw that had cause the incident I was involved in would no doubt lead to other people suffering similar assaults - so I called in the police as I felt it wouldn't help me, but was my duty to protect others.

A similar thought process of civic responsibility should have been going through Gordon Brown's mind when as chancellor he was told of the appalling breaches of privacy carried out against his family ( the Brown's son Fraser with whom we all had great sympathy - as I said at the time ).

What he hasn't understood is it was his duty to act, not just for his own sake, but also for the other victims he would have known would follow.

He had the authority, considered the issue. He even says now he was in favour of a judicial enquiry, and yet he didn't act. Its not hard to speculate why.

Ed Miliband was Gordon Brown's close disciple and in the cabinet when these things were discussed. ( I don't know if he was in the particular meeting when they were discussed ). He had the opportunity to protect the public, murder victims, the families of dead soldiers and airmen, but he chose to do nothing.

And now we have the hypocrisy of Brown and Miliband launching their crusade against New International.

They have a lot of questions to answer. The only question is with News International cowered who's going to ask them ?

Update: Its starting

Questions are being asked about Brown's version of events.

Andrew Neil has been helpfully putting the boot in all day: see this, this and this.

On Ed Miliband's lukewarm condemnation of the teacher's strikes

I've just placed the following comment on Ed Miliband's blog in answer to his half hearted objection to strikers making him unpopular blog post here. Will it make it through the Labour censors ?

Ed, the problem I have with this post is that it seems to just be opportunist. You know that strikes holding children and parents to ransom will be very unpopular and anyone who associates with the NUT and ATL will be unpopular too. So your distancing yourself. ( It would be helpful if you condemn the moral failings of these Unions in using children’s education and parents ability to work to blackmail the government with. You might also pass on some home truths to public sector workers about the apocalypse in private pensions that the last government presided over and how there will never be the political support to condemn those who earn the nations wealth to poverty whilst the public sector gets fantastic pensions which are paid for by crush the poor private sector workers with taxes. )

The problem is you don’t recognise Labour’s culpability. Labour ran the structural deficit. Labour mishandled the financial sector. Labour bleed private sector pensions to death whilst turning on the fire hoses of spending on unreformed public services to buy yourself votes with. Labour placed us all in the terrible debt we now face. You need to confess that Labour were responsible for these massive failures and show you understand what went wrong. The Debt Denial policy and the cowardly refusal to explain where you would be forced to cut just won’t do.

Greece is the fate that awaits us under your current approach – lets hear some fresh thinking starting with a recognition of reality and some very humble apologies for the disaster Labour created and the Coalition is having to try and fix.

I suspect you’ll chose denial instead, but go on surprise me.

The DeadEd society swings into action

Those of us on the right have been going easy on #RedEd over the last few months,

Why ?

Because we realise the monumental mistake Labour has made in allowing another unelected leader ( if you ignore the Unions ), and specifically Ed Miliband to become leader.

The game has been not to rock the boat too much before Red Ed can become a two term leader of the opposition.

However it seems the Balirite wing of the Labour party don't intend to allow things to go on that long (shame that). The slow motion assassination of another Labour leader has started. The finger prints are unmistakable - the leak of the highly damning Ed Balls papers. ( Frankly those of us without scales in front of our eyes always knew Ed Balls for what he is now proven to be and didn't need any leaks to tell us. ) If this had been from Conservative sources it would have happened when it was too late to replace #RedEd before the next general election.

Now the Guardian and Observer are getting a whole raft of the "time is up for Red Ed" type articles, and his brother leadership acceptance speech ( which he didn't need thanks to the fraternicide ) has appeared in the Times ( aledgedly since the Times disappeared from the world a while ago into its own little bubble ). Labour members can read what leadership would have looked like by the brother that doesn't hand out blank bits of paper as policy ideas or apologies for the past.

Can Labour save themselves ?

Personally I hope not - I'd rather see an ongoing civil war with no clear victor. But its going to be entertaining anyway and they have bought this on themselves just as they have brought ruin on the heads of everyone in this country.

I will be getting my bowl of popcorn ready for the show ...

The TB GB's part II rated 18
(Those of a delusional left wing nature may find a lot of what's about to happen very upsetting - look away now Polly Toynbee .)

Update: This article by Dan Hodges is worth a read - I have to say very hopeful for those of us who dispise the waste and destruction that Labour governments always bring.

And for Sunday there's reports of the Ed vs David fraternicidal relationship.

The bad press is piling up - see Guido using the Dead Ed meme with his summary of Labour's car crash Sunday press.

The question is being asked how many years Labour are going to be in navel gazing mode for ( please let it be > 20 ! ).

March for pampered privilege and debt denial with Red Ed and the TUC

Here we go. Those sharp minded people at the TUC ( like Bob - tax email to solve the financial crisis - Crow ) have organised the most exciting thing in any leftie's entire life - a protest rally.

They are marching against "cuts".

Of course since trade unions are now almost entirely public sector trade unions what they mean is reductions in the public sector. After all the greatest reduction in manufacturing industry ever in the UK happened under the last Labour govt ( what you don't remember the TUC marches then ? Surely some mistake ! )

The BBC has been doing its eager best to boast interest - running sympathetic pre-event stories etc, after all the freezing of the licence fee impacts them also. ( To get an idea of how over staffed and careless with public money just watch the number of correspondents they send on almost any junket you care to look at - also check out BRMB's offer of running BBC WM at half the price !)

Those of us who live in the productive sector - whose pensions have been drained by Gordon Brown's stealth and then slashed by Brown's mates in Banking, if you didn't lose your job - know all about cuts.

As do those pensioners who see their savings (which they paid tax on #UKUncut parasites take note ) sucked dry by negative real interest rates and the need to live of their capital.

But the privilege and gold plated land of the public sector suffered not a bit. Now they are being asked to join the rest of us in reality, and their reaction and that of the low life Labour councillors who slash vital services whilst keeping high paid council junkets and political projects to feather their own nests with.

In short the march today is all about selfish people being selfish.

No one should be taken in by them.

Lets get this straight the banks are the symptom not the cause

#RedEd's is straight back to Labour's shameless denial of history tactics as they try to brain wash their supporters that the structural deficit Labour ran to bulk up the unreformed public sector ( mostly to buy votes and pay for the ambition of one certain recently ex-prime minister ) didn't cause the ever increasing debt rates our country now has, which are causing us to sell our children's future so we can be selfish today !

This really does matter. ( I had a "I get it" about the debt - stop going on tweet from a reader yesterday - but this is so important that I will keep going on about it. ) The right needs to win this argument. It is not good enough just being correct - we need to ensure the electorate understands and accepts why that is the case. The left's aims are the opposite - to make the harm worse by denying the facts and spreading easy solutions based on ignorance and frankly evil deceit.

Gordon Brown allowed a debt bubble to grow in the UK. It was great for him, as he taxed the transactions that it created, and spent them bribing the general public with their own money to vote Labour. He didn't undertake the moral requirement of improving efficiency as he needed to buy of the public sector unions for his own ambition - and as in now being realised again its the public sector unions that ensure public services are inefficient and unaffordable.

Then Brown stepped in to save banks from Labour's heartlands ( not the city of London or the South East note ! ). The Chelsea Building society would have been allowed to go tot he wall, but not Northern Rock, RBS, HBOS. A perfectly good English bank was pressured into destroying its shareholder value to rescue a local bank of Brown and Darling.

But will Labour admit any of this and apologise ( and indeed manifesto writing and Brown supporting dead beats like Red Ed Miliband should resign ) ?

Not a chance. They will lie instead. Rather than put country first they will rail about cuts in the hope of getting their ministerial limos back.

The problem is that we aren't making nearly nearly enough noise about their guilt and despicable behaviour.

Further reading:

"Did high-spending before the boom turned to bust (which wasn’t supposed to happen, you’ll remember) have anything to do with the size of the current deficit?" - Iain Martin over at the WSJ on #RedEd's taking the Gordon Brown line.

"The crash from an Austrian perspective" - Fraser Nelson at the Coffee House

Dead beat Ed tries to shift the blame by denial

#RedEd is repeating his theme (behind the Times paywall) that the massive national debt built up by Labour never happened. Yes despite the fact that we have reported examples of how Labour ran a structural deficit during the good times ( created by the good management of the previous Conservative govt I might add ) just for the tactical electoral advantage of being able to campaign on what the evil kitten murdering Tories would cut.

We would be in crisis without the bank problems - in fact in many ways the unsustainable debt bubble people like Brown used to fuel their own selfish personal ambition helped cause the banking crisis ( assisted by some of Bill Clinton's Democrats legacy in the US on mortgage lending policy ).

Labour is out to rewrite history and just straight lie to people faces - just as they did during the Brown and Blair years.

They, and in particular Red Ed, are debt deniers and liars.

For more details see here.

Christmas is just about rest - no Christ or Christians apparently

Ed Miliband's message ignored Christians, the Church, and the birth of Christ. Given his Jewish roots you'd think he'd know a bit more about the foundations of Christmas.



At least he gets his kids names right on the autocue.

PS Are there any more vacuous politician Christmas messages out there, or this the worst - this year ?

Sorry socialists I am trying to be nice to you - look on the bright side your new supreme dear leader is getting more coverage ! ( Happy Christmas. )

Questions for #RedEd

And they're going to keep coming thick and fast now ...

After all #RedEd wrote the Labour manifesto that promised to reduce the deficit - so surely he knew about the planned Labour tax rises and cuts even if he didn't put them in the manifesto ?

H/T to Leftwatch at Conservative Home

Labour's new unelected, by their party, leader

So its #RedEd, the son of Marxists and prodigy of that genius Gordon Brown.

Not that he won the support of Labour's MPs or even their membership but because of the role public sector Unions play in their parasitic relationship with Labour and the state #RedEd gets in.

Now perhaps he's not an idiot and will stab his Marxist and left wing friend in the back ( quite likely if he wants to win power ), but he's better start sharpening the knife as he has his party conference to address and they will be demanding pure fantasy and now apology for the criminal negligence of their recent regime's running of the country's finances.

We will see - very shortly.

PS If I was David Cameron I would congratulate David Miliband on winning the most votes and Ed Miliband on getting the Unions support.

Ps Just picked this up from Conservative Home ( above )

If Red Ed wins - Nick Clegg's future is nailed to the Coalition mast

The bookies and punters are starting to say that Red Ed Miliband - son of the infamous marxist and brother of banana man may win with the Union vote.

If so Labour's approach to the Lib Dems will be clear. They will need to oust Nick Clegg as Lib Dem leader. ( Banana man could have enticed him to coalition with Labour, but not the head banger Red Ed who wants blood to revenge the humiliation of his sponsor Gordon Brown at Clegg's hands. )

So the left will work at splitting the Lib Dems apart ( with Red Vince Cable, Simon "the straight choice" Hughes and when not delayed by the "rail timetable" Kennedy to play with it shouldn't be too hard. After all most Lib Dem activists are really horrified by the burden of being in power rather than the postcode opportunist politics they love as a hobby. )

The Conservative aim here should be to try to offer the Orange book liberal minority in the Lib Dems a new home.

One day Nick Clegg may yet be a Conservative minister.

Labour's new leader is already an accomplished liar and coward - ( unless its Diane Abbott )

How do I know this ? Well listening to Steve Richards’s first edition [link only valid for a few days] of his programme on the Brown years in No 10.

We hear ex-minister talking about the lies with the election that never was.

We know that things were terrible in No10, with Brown moving between despair and rage - and that was on a good day. We also know that none of the narrow minded selfish careerists put country before their own ambition and tried to do anything about it.

We know that factions briefed and lied against each other.

We know that Brown lied directly to the camera about the election that never was and that it was the middle class of southern England who saved the country ( I think those of us in that category can all have a little pat on the back for that one. )

Combine this with the cowardice that all the main candidates except perhaps David Miliband have show over the massive crippling debt they run up and the structural deficit Brown introduced just ( remember this ) to make it hard for the Tories at the general election. ( This is on record when Brown was talking to a Clinton adviser who asked him why he was running a deficit in the good times and Brown answered to make life difficult for the Tories at the election ).

Brown and co got of lightly over their tactical attempts to copy the Conservative inheritance tax proposals, which they then shamelessly tried to attack latter. ( My guess is that the thing that scared Brown and his Labour skivvies was the impact on the key voter group they were denying was tipping their election date considerations ).

No one who was in Brown's government is morally fit to run this country and unless Labour have a strange turn and election Diane Abbott then it means the next Labour leader is already damaged goods.

Sometimes we have very short memories in politics - but the moral corruption of the last Labour government should be a memory many of us keep alive for a very long time.

Labour try to have it all ways - the spin is back

As part of Gordon Brown's carefully crafted plan to decieve the public about his true nature the Brownian spin machine is now in running at full tilt.

Supercasino - just say no. ( Can anyone remember Gordon I want to save my job and lack the courage of my convictions Brown objecting before ? ).
American (We're not going to be slavish friends but give the yanks the benefit of our half baked socialism and naive view of the work that gave you CND amongst other things - but then the boy Miliband is on TV saying we didn't mean that at all - after pocketing the support from the public.)
Housing (re-announce loads of things - make brief statements. Start trying to blame the financial industry for the coming house crash - does anyone remember Gordon Brown boasting about interest rates in the last 10 years or fixing the bank of England by measuring inflation in a different way ? )
England ( or in NuLabour spin speak the British Regions - and all the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs will be busy legislating on Gordon Brown's priorities that apply only in England. )

So let no one doubt spin is back - in fact you have to start wondering if Gordon Brown wasn't the force behind Labours spin and character assassination campaign at the start ..... Maybe thats why we have Ed Miliband giving out his Meme's about David Cameron having to shore up the right etc ...spin, spin and more spin.

If only they took their responsibilities in government half as seriously as making sure they continue to have access to all the goodies and money that government brings them.