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to think voting for milliband must happen to save the country

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suziepra · 01/08/2014 20:44

He will re nationalise the railway , end the bed room tax, increase state pensions, stop the cut and enable employment to grow.

www.lbc.co.uk/ed-miliband-live-on-lbc-94619

Must not for ed to sort out this mess and stop the nasty torys from making the rich richer and poor poorer

OP posts:
HollyGuacamolly · 01/08/2014 22:36

Does Ed Miliband actually even have any policies? I mean, what are his plans if he is elected?

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 22:38

drew attention to Labour's economic record when it was revealed by Laws at a press conference today.

Laws told reporters: "When I arrived at my desk on the very first day as chief secretary, I found a letter from the previous chief secretary to give me some advice, I assumed, on how I conduct myself over the months ahead.

"Unfortunately, when I opened it, it was a one-sentence letter which simply said: 'Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left,' which was honest but slightly less helpful advice than I had been expecting."

Thefishewife · 01/08/2014 22:40

Add message | Report | Message poster HollyGuacamolly Fri 01-Aug-14 22:36:35
Does Ed Miliband actually even have any policies? I mean, what are his plans if he is elected?

to eat more bacon butties lol

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 22:41
  • picnicbasketcase Fri 01-Aug-14 22:25:32

I am sure people do talk about these things but when that vote goes into ballot box I think their own lives, immediate worries and so on, will be the driver behind their vote, not visions of Eds face blending with Wallace.

Your comments on people voting for image remind me of the comments about why women should not get the vote, because it was assumed they would vote for who they liked the look of.

Which of course we all know is is un true.

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 22:42

what are his plans if he is elected?

To learn how to eat bacon butties?

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 22:44

Mumzy Fri 01-Aug-14 22:04:31

YY

I'd take take the vote away from people who are too stupid to think we collectively vote for a person or a party - we dont

YY

HollyGuacamolly · 01/08/2014 22:46

Labour is the Disney dad of politics.

They brainwash people into thinking that they can solve problems by throwing money (that this country doesn't have) at them.

picnicbasketcase · 01/08/2014 22:46

I hope you're right and I'm sure you are. I am of course awfully glad that women are allowed to vote, what with being one myself. I do hope you can find somebody else's posts to pick on now.

Bowlersarm · 01/08/2014 22:48

Nope, he's not for me.

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 22:53

They brainwash people into thinking that they can solve problems by throwing money (that this country doesn't have) at them YY

"Unfortunately, when I opened it, it was a one-sentence letter which simply said: 'Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left,' which was honest

VampireSquid · 01/08/2014 23:09

I grew up and in the past supported Labour. But now there is so little difference. I have no idea what they stand for, they have no meaning like they once did. Miliband is making them less popular. Maybe good working in the background, but as leader? No way in hell.

thecatfromjapan · 01/08/2014 23:15

I think it'll be less bad with Labour in. And it will stop whatever the Tories have planned for Episode Two. And it'll being an end to the disgraceful rhetoric around the Cuts.

But ...

They really could be promising us a whole lot more. Paying for higher education. More redistribution of wealth. I'd like that. Though I do realise that it can scare a lot of voters.

TheBloodManCometh · 01/08/2014 23:21

YABVU.
Pensions are one of the biggest causes of the deficit. Where's all this money going to come from?

thereturnofshoesy · 01/08/2014 23:22

i will vote for someone
some one that is not cameron
the muppet who takes money from the most vulnerable (whilst pretending he knows what it is like.......LIKE FUCK)
yet can hand out 2 million to a town cost their pier burnt down........
A prime minister who does not know about insurance.....is a very thick one
A prime minister who hates the vulnerable is a vulture

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 23:26

A prime minister who hates the vulnerable is a vulture

That will be in particular the delight that was Tony Blair then,

The full scale of Labour's failure to help the poorest in Britain was laid bare yesterday with revelations that hundreds of thousands of people were being plunged into deprivation even before the recession hit, and that the Government had been unable to make any impression on the numbers of children and pensioners in poverty

The admission came as official figures blew apart the Government's credibility on helping those struggling the most. They painted a bleak picture of worsening poverty in Britain even before the recession took root. The number of people living in poverty had climbed to 11 million by March 2008, a rise of 300,000 since 2006

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labours-record-on-poverty-in-tatters-1681047.html.

KnittedJimmyChoos · 01/08/2014 23:27

They painted a bleak picture of worsening poverty in Britain even before the recession took root. The number of people living in poverty had climbed to 11 million by March 2008, a rise of 300,000 since 2006 Shock

RandomDiva · 01/08/2014 23:39

Eh? Why is Cameron pledging ££ to a fully insured (and reinsured. And reinsured. And another layer of insurance on top of that). Pier?

Sixweekstowait · 01/08/2014 23:53

Random - you do really know the answer to that don't you?

Sixweekstowait · 01/08/2014 23:58

Knitted - that would be Laws who dishonestly claimed rent and had to resign but is now back?

RandomDiva · 02/08/2014 00:01

I used to be a reinsurance broker. Yes, I do.

thereturnofshoesy · 02/08/2014 00:03

RandomDiva

VOTES
the grey ones

RandomDiva · 02/08/2014 00:10

???

MeerkatTargaryen · 02/08/2014 00:38

Yabu. The country has the lowest unemployment figures in years. There are more frontline nhs staff than there were under the labour government (thank god as I've just qualified as a nurse lol).

The benefits system has had a much needed shake up to try to resolve the benefits culture that exists in this country. That is a great thing. The current benefits system was completely unsustainable. It's not perfect, my dad who is disabled was placed the work focus group and loses his benefit in September. He has been really ill this year with his heart so actually has more need. But i still trust the benefits system wholeheartedly.

I am still not 100% sure I want to vote for the tories again b it I thinks they've done a bloody good job considering the circumstances.

As for miliband, you just have to watch prime ministers questions to see he hasn't got a clue what he's doing. Would have been completely different if it's had been David.

Fuckalella · 02/08/2014 00:52

YABU. But TBH I would also rather poke out my own eyes than vote for Cameron and co. I just wish a politician would come along and actually do what they promised in their manifesto, rather than telling us all what we want to hear then doing the opposite.

GatoradeMeBitch · 02/08/2014 01:09

I want to be able to vote Labour - I certainly won't be voting for Conservative, Lib Dem's or UKIP - but I have no faith in Miliband. I don't see him being able to win an election. Surely they must have some candidates who can appear competent in public.