Red Ed's plan to devalue Parliament and bypass the Opposition

The authoritarian instinct of Red Ed Miliband were on show today - when he laid an elephant trap for UK democracy with his proposal to allow the public to question the PM.

Such theatre would compete with PMQs, and help bypass MPs and especially the official opposition.

After all it was Tony Blair who abolished twice weekly PMQs - Miliband is just working out how to rig the system to his advantage ( maybe a ban on bacon sandwiches will be next ).

Miliband has no choice - so he also has no credibility

Allegedly Ed Miliband is facing up to the fact the states finances are wrecked, though not admitting it's labour that did the wrecking mind you.

Perhaps he has no choice. If he doesn't say this none then the prospect of a Labour victory in 2015 could force a financial crisis on the UK. It's the only thing for him to say tho get elected - given that the prospect of his elevation to pm causing a run on the pound would probably stop him getting into office.

Hence how can anyone believe him ?

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.

The very last thing Labour are being is honest on Immigration

There's loads of stuff floating around about #RedEd's attempt to get himself of the hook for mass immigration causing mass pain to Labour's core voters.

As Cranmer points out this really doesn't look very genuine, on reflection.

Rememberer when Brown was told that 90% of new jobs were going to immigrants ? He just ignored the point and called people who raised questions bigots under his breath. ( How common this left wing approach of never engaging in arguments but just shouting down those with a different view is ! It seems to me to be a pathology associated closely with left wing political beliefs. )

We had Hillary Benn on the radio this lunch time trying to give #RedEd credit for starting the debate and calling for honest discussions. He then followed with dishonest assertions straight afterwards on the benefits of immigration that many other have at the very least questioned.

We all know why Labour promoted mass immigration, and its the same reason Labour debased the electoral system allowing mass systemic voter fraud with postal voting. It was to win elections, every time. Its the same reason they bulldozed the anti-English devolution settlement through.

But don't take my word for it read what is reported from a Labour insider of the time,Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. And also here "'Dishonest' Blair and Straw accused over secret plan for multicultural UK".

The only reason little sixth former Ed Miliband is at all sorry is it might stop him becoming Prime Minister. Labour need their feet holding to the fire on this issue - and their utter contemptible hypocrisy made clear to the whole country.


They have lied, and they are lying now. Frankly I don't think you can expect anything else from them on this subject.

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.

The voters are showing little loyalty as their is little leadership

The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today.

The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. That means RedEd gets all the credit, and the fickle public start to buy into his whole crackpot leftwing good/bad capitalism 6th form argument. Perhaps George Osborne has just twigged this, but his intervention is way too late. This is were the triangulation and modernisation of what used to e the Conservative party falls flat on its face. ( Just as it tragically did in 2010. )

The wider story is the mob is fickle, spooked and willing to change its mind - especially if it see the herd heading in a particular direction. After all, apart from thinking things through - which lets face it isn't a popular voter preoccupation - what else do people have to go on.

There's a vacuum where there should be leadership - telling people that bonuses get taxed at 50% and then spent on stuff which mostly boosts the UK economy and is based on services given to those outside the UK !

This really is not going to go very well, unless some of the Conservative leadership start growing a backbone.

( This author takes it as read that having Lib Dems in any coalition is like have saboteurs in your ship - eagerly trying to kill everyone. But its no excuse everyone knows what sort of people they are so Cameron should be putting them in places where they can't do too much damage - unlike DECC ).

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.

Something is going on with Labour's economic truth denial policy

Apparently Ed Balls is almost about to admit that there might have been a tiny little itsy bitsy structural deficit, which could (just technically amongst less generous commentators mind you) have been considered to have happened whilst Labour were in power. ( Apparently its in the New Statesman somewhere ).

So Denial not working for the two Eds so well then ?

My guess is Labour have been stung by the torrent of abuse they have received for supporting the public sector dinosaurs and their rent a thug supporters on #march26.

I bet the private polling is in.

I bet they realise people have seen through their lies and deceit.

So we'll perhaps be getting a new position shortly.

They had better move quickly before Portugal really blows up and the public become even more incredulous of Labour Debt Denial policy.

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.

The Debt Labour have hung around our necks

Less Tax + no cuts = more debt

Announcements from Labour so far:

• Cuts are evil - kitten murdering Tories and making too many and too soon.
• Unpopular taxes are evil - like VAT ( even though they planned to raise it also )

How are they planning on funding this fools paradise ?

Debt

And of course the plan to get elected is to deny this fact.

Annoucing what you are going to say before you say it is damaging out democracy

But only because the media reports it.

A new trick was invented in the days of New Labour. To ensure that no opposition spokesperson should get a look in on an announcement they pre-announced speeches.

Those who wanted to react had nothing to react against. They needed to wait for the text to be read out to be sure nothing would get changed at the last moment. By that time the key message was out unchallenged in the media and the story was old hat.

A great move for all those spin doctors, but its destroyed debate.

Today we have Ed Miliband pre-announcing an attack on the future of the English NHS ( delivered perversely from the Welsh Labour conference - the Welsh NHS thanks to its more socialism model kills far more of its victims than event the English one does ).

Its all designed to sent out unchallenged sound-bites into the media. No wonder politics is in such an awful mess these days. ( And lets be clear all sides now do this ).

Labour's new debt and history denial strategy

At last Red Ed has woken up the idea that Labour's selling our children and us into debt slavery has been a little unpopular.

So like Red Len on the radio earlier in the week he has a new re-write of history that will let Labour say it will do something, but their only mistake was to trust the evil capitalist banks who murder kittens round the clock in the docklands. ( Even though the banks in trouble where all Labour heartland banks with close political connections to Labour. )

So perhaps they didn't 'rebalance the economy' enough. Perhaps there wasn't enough blaming of the banks. But let nobody remember the structural deficit that Labour started as soon as Brown shock of the Tory spending plans two years in. Let no one remember the failure to reform or the deceit of rising educational standards when we now know that was a very cruel deceit at the expense of our youth.

Yes Labour can't bring themselves to admit what wen't wrong, but they are rather worried the general public are going to understand. So a new lie is required from Gordon Brown's closest of allies who has been imposed on the Labour party by the Trade Unions ( which means public sector trade unions - they who ensure our public services can't imp[rove and will drag us to the depths of economic destruction socialists dream about drowning us all in so much. )

Read the Guardian article on the new lies Ed Miliband has approved and weep....

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.

Vacant RedEd spots a bandwagon to jump on

Lets remember that Labour introduced tuition fees ( and they were always going to go up, the initial level was the level they thought they could get away with ).

Now feckless #RedEd has spotted a bandwagon to take his blank piece of paper on to try a shamelessly grovel for votes from naive middle class teenagers and students.

But even the feckless RedEd can't avoid the fact that Labour destroyed the country's finances and "there's no money left". So RedEd, when he's not actively considering perhaps saying something, maybe to the students, admits there would have to be something like a graduate tax.

Frankly there would be virtually no difference.

The questions are will RedEd get the jumping on bandwagon flack any Tory would get in these circumstances ? And will any one point out the plank in Labour's own eye on this ?

And anyway isn't it time someone told the children that things have to be paid for, and by the way the grown ups have taken out a stupendous loan in their name which they will have to pay back for the national debt that will make tuition fees look like a picnic !

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 )