Thegambler …… Ah now I understand what you think is electorally “strange” about dodgy boundary lines favouring Labour; it’s that you don’t understand that whether the voting turnout in 10%, 60%, or 100% - it takes a shed load more votes to give the Conservative Party a majority, which gives Labour an unfair advantage in ANY general election.
Now lets add some 'meat' to your incorrect throw away statements above, you clearly know little about.
Re my thoughts on a hypothetical Labour handling (or the coalitions) of the Royal Mail sell-off, they wanted to under Mandelson but I believe he could not do it for two main reasons; Labour would not guarantee the Royal Mail pension fund deficit of around £9 billion (that Osborne did) and the trade unions – as explained in the first link below.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/politics/2042121-The-Royal-Mail-Sale-kafuffle
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2042436-Why-are-the-government-being-blamed-for-the-Royal-Mail-share-price-being-set-too-low
Re Labour’s banking, financial and economic mess; in 2010, it was already too late as the damage was done and I can guarantee that the Conservative would not have done the same, as they’d either been doing the OPPOSITE to Labour e.g. trimming the Public Sector to what we could afford throughout the 1990’s, or Brown’s new policies from 1997 directly contributed to the financial and economic crash.
Brown taking away Financial controls that were solely with the Bank of England and formed a TRIPARTITE of the BoE, The Treasury (Brown influenced) and Brown’s newly formed and totally overstretched Financial Services Authority (Brown influenced), WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE or CONTRIBUTED for bank lending growth multiplying and the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
www.theguardian.com/business/2011/dec/12/labour-regulations-city-rbs-collapse
Don’t take the FSA’s or my word for it, ask Mr Gordon Brown who had thought we was a financial demi-god who had “cured boom and bust”, yet gave us the largest boom and bust, on his and most of the current Labour shadow cabinets, watch.
metro.co.uk/2011/04/11/gordon-brown-i-made-big-mistake-on-banks-before-financial-crisis-650630/
Labour/Brown’s reckless spending on unreformed public services that could have been better spent for votes, was diametrically opposed to the Conservative policies since Thatcher, and certainly in 1997 – and books were being written about it well before 2010.
www.taxpayersalliance.com/economics/2009/09/new-book-reveals-the-total-cost-of-gordon-browns-mishandling-of-the-economy-as-3-trillion-or-3000000.html
Re Housing, Labour were told in the Barker Report of 2004, WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING ABOUT LABOUR’S SECRET IMMIGRATION PLANS to “diversify” the UK, that we were not building anywhere near enough homes – but chose to spend all that money above of the like of Quango’s, with their apparatchiks getting patronage with £100,000 plus salaries.
www.theguardian.com/money/2004/mar/17/business.housing
But THIS is what Labour left; read this Shelter Report and tell me WHO DID NOT PLAN AHEAD, a Labour Government will £trillions to spend, a Report in 2004 telling them to build a lot more and a secret immigration policy that was to let in 2.5 million new citizens to find accommodation – or the Coalition inheriting a £157 billion annual deficit, massive accumulating National Debt who in desperation, seeing several hundred thousand bedrooms free, was more worried about the 1.7 million Labour left NEEDING ROOMS?????
england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns/why_we_campaign/the_housing_crisis/what_is_the_housing_crisis
That is why there are rising home prices, based on demand, NOT Osborne’s attempt to free up a ‘log jammed’ housing market, where people could not move as banking finance wasn’t available – as governments were telling banks to SHRINK their balance sheets and LOAN MORE 9which grows their balance sheets) in the worst recession in over 80-years.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/1977704-UK-Interest-Mortgage-Rates-WHO-S-in-control
Re the Rich and taxation, without you qualifying ‘sweetheart deals’ you’ve heard somewhere, all I can say is that under the Conservatives, the rich are paying far more taxes than under Labour – which I can qualify, even if you can’t – and on the “Who runs Britain” link below, it explains Labour’s agenda with their (now mainly past) rich ‘sweethearts’ and why Brown lowered Capital Gains Tax to a tapered low of 10%, versus Osborne’s current 28%, likely to go higher/closer to the top rate of income tax, where it should be.
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/10/a_speculators_budget.html
“Who Runs Britain?” by (the BBC’s) Robert Peston
www.socialismtoday.org/122/peston.html
Back to this thread, JUST THE LABOUR RECORD MENTIONED ON SEVERAL ISSUES ABOVE PROVES, Labour can not campaign on the past record, and without detailing any new policies – is why Labour will conduct a ‘negative’ campaign, mainly based on ‘class’, as they do when trying to deflect from their own incompetence, past and present.
