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25 September 2013

Milliminor and the Labour Party that is, Back to the Past, a 'lurch to the left - whatever you want to call it.

Back to tried and failed mechanisms that guarantee only to push us deeper and faster into an economic crisis worse even than the slow motion disaster of the now defunct so-called New Labour government.

Lets see.....

A prices policy on utilities that will discourage essential new investment and will result in 'power rationing' - blackouts in other words.

A land-theft policy transferring the ownership of undeveloped land into government hands perhaps resulting in expensive unsold houses where people do not want to live or, more likely a wasteland.

Fiddling around with an already too complex tax system to make it even more complex - lots more room for evasion there then.

Nationalisation - a way to create inefficient, loss making and expensive monopolies.

Government by diktat - private business being forced to serve the needs of government to a degree not seen outside war-time in this country.

This lot will damage economic growth, wipe out investment, increase the deficit, drive up interest rates and push unemployment to levels as yet unseen in this country.

Milliminor's Great Britain would make the current Greek economy look like a beacon of prosperity.

Mad totally mad. A speech and a set of policies designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of ignorance and stupidity.

Once again Labour is setting about making itself unfit to govern to a degree not seen since Michael Foot's day.

This is simply power - more power to the centre, more power for government to control our lives. Politicians who think that they and their civil servants know better than all of us and somehow imagine they can buck the markets without consequences. This is also about distrust - Labour do not trust the people and think they must take control. On the contrary, those who are least to be trusted are those politicians, such as Milliminor, who think they are the fount of all good and wisdom and want to gather more and more power to themselves.

Guest 710 wrote:
For the briefest of moments I thought to trawl back over the years to locate the particular Barry-Blog from which the above was culled, but no.
There is simply nothing here that we do not get the opportunity to peruse on an all to regular basis, nay, incessant basis.
I am reminded of the animation, "Rex the Runt". For one of its characters does no more than interject the terms:'Trousers!' or 'Spaghetti!' into every conversation.

But, hey-ho. It is The Conference Season. The three or four early auditions for a virtually unheard of 'X' factor. Each of which takes place in some establishment which, to all intents and purposes, appears to be a satellite of the Broadmoor franchise.

Still...much more fun to come.
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
i watched the edited highligts and ed clearly won over the hall, it remains to be seen how the electorate respond. the important thing to remember is that if the party delegates are happy they will go out door knocking and all the other things that help win elections.

i doubt if dave's speech will have the same effect.
Guest 655 wrote:
The blind leading the ignorant and blind... so of course he will 'win them over'. Mad and crazy left wing stances will always win over that audience - the same mob of ignoramuses who worshipped at the feet of Michael Foot.
Guest 710 wrote:
Michael Foot?

We have done oh so well without him. (?)
Guest 655 wrote:
We did very well indeed Tom. Until the ''slow motion disaster of the now defunct NuLab government''

This just demonstrates how unfit Labour are to run a pee up in a brewery let alone a country.
Guest 710 wrote:
I usually write 'we' this way when I an trying for irony Barry, it's just more grown-up.
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
you can always tell when barry is rattled, irrational outbursts of vilification rather than reasoned argument.
Guest 696 wrote:
Miliband has shown he has learnt to count to five, and this is the problem: he now thinks he can run the economy.

His proposed law on obligatory recruiting of an apprentice for every foreign worker is a total sham, would probably contravene EU law and end up in a Court in Europe, and is proof that he has not the guts to campaign for an end to EU membership, while implicitly acknowledging the damage caused by such membership.

His energy policy is embarrassing, embarrassing that it came from the leader of a party with millions of voters. Unless he is a fortune-teller....

Yes, probably a fortune-teller, that's what his policies and his public displays amount to.
A fake healer.
Guest 655 wrote:
Howard - this is perfectly reasoned argument.

Milliminor fully deserve all the contempt that can be poured on him and his wretched pathetic party.

Every single period of office Labour have served resulted is an economic disaster - that is a fact.

If you want to be poor, if you want to lose your job, if you want the UK to be a backward third world country within 20 years, vote Labour.
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
blind, ignorant,. mad, crazy and mob of ignoramuses is hardly reasoned argument barry, have you wondered why your party has not won an election since 1992?
Guest 696 wrote:
Ed Sillyband wants to force developers to build millions of houses on farm and woodland, or confiscate the land and do it through the State.
Hopefully this Loony-left joker gets nowhere near Government.

Councils can't even afford to adequately cover social services, social structures, such as NHS and education, are crumbling under sheer weight and numbers, water-shortages can become manifest in next to no time with a lack of rain, the future energy policy of this Country is undecided, and here we have a null-wit preaching sheer idiocy.

This man's ideas are just a poor joke, he's a hand-wringing stereo-type of all that is utter madness from the Labour bust-and-gone-forever policies.
Guest 655 wrote:
Howard - I say it how it is but perhaps you need to focus on the reasoning I make behind my very apt descriptions and contempt for the left, socialism and Labour in particular. I do that often enough having critiqued Brown's economic record extensively - I don't spare Osborne either incidentally.

But perhaps you see in what I say only what you want to see.

When I do my due diligence on investments I look at the track record of performance alongside the disciplines, procedures and controls that inform the way an investment is managed.

If you carry out that same process on the Labour Party - the details of which I often address in exactly the same way I identify the shortcoming of investment managers, you can come to only one conclusion.

Only a complete moron could possibly think that voting for Labour would provide good economic outcomes. The evidence is in their words, past actions and past outcomes by them and also others who have tried the same failed interventionist methods.
Guest 696 wrote:
Unless I missed something, Millyband has not even addressed the Public Debt issue.
His policies would send Britain straight down the road Greece went.
His social policies - inundating the countryside with houses everywhere - would lead to mass-public borrowing to cover council-budget bills and in general all bills connected to basic infrastructure.

The Public Debt would soar.
And the energy-supply system would crash, both through overburden and through blind State interventionism.

People should be aware, when listening to Labour jingle-bells, that the economy and the money within it and the infrastructure cannot be handed over to be the "governance" of Labour politicians.
They haven't got a clue!
Guest 696 wrote:
Ed Milliband was standing on the bridge of the ship when it smashed against the rocks in 2008.
On what grounds does this man now stand to be reelected into government?
Is it: "let me do it again?"

Who in their right mind could vote that Labour lot in again?