Tomorrow's strikes enjoy two-thirds support.
That exceeds even Labour's 10-point lead over the Conservatives, which is just as ignored by the universally Blairite, and therefore pro-Cameron, media, as surely as is the fact that the other Coalition party's lead over UKIP is within the margin of error.
Ed Miliband should take this opportunity to make himself the only voice of two out of every three voters. And he should ask why we must suffer a commentariat which bears no resemblance to public opinion, even if that (rather than technological change) does make it far less important than it used to be.
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Absolutely. Though the state is too big, there is no reason to validate the private sector theft of pension funds and 'borrowing' from worker compensation by stirring up envy about the deal given to public servants. There are times when I wish I was in a union led by Bob Crow--he can drink and eat what he likes as far as I care, so long as he does his job by his members with a great deal more fidelity than most chief executives.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that we have a state choc-full of relatively useless people in hoc to privatised and outsourced companies ripping it off, but we're going for the teachers, legal aid, and cleaners whilst air-bombing the middle classes with benefits, negative interest rates and mad schemes (and throwing money on the european fire).
If business values freedom--abolish the department of business. And of culture, media and sport. Call export subsidies that and not overseas aid, and stop regulating education. That'd save £15 billion. Making the Railways a passenger co-op under Network Rail would save many billions more. Create a flat tax or series of flat taxes, lower than now but with no loopholes or get-outs, and watch small business flourish. We could abolish HMRC, pledge future national surpluses to the national insurance fund, and make investment bank boards' liability unlimited. We could dump stupid carbon taxes and the green delusions and reopen the mines, and give those men in those devastated cities proper work and something to be proud of. We could nationalise the worst universities and make them into a university of Britain under the Open University, on the same lines, whilst privatising the best and letting them pay us taxes. We could turn the post office into a bank with a digital account given to every citizen and let the 'real' banks offer some sort of service if they wanted to do retail.
But no--that the Conservatives won't do. So we're back to kicking the poor and those who make the country work, and huffing and puffing about pensions most of us will never see.
Especially amusing is the sight of Dan Hodges trying to reinvent himself as a proper Labour man. He was given the gig specifically because he wasn't one, so you have to wonder how much longer he can last.
ReplyDeleteYour comments are much better than his post, as always. Your comments on Hannan's are also at least as good, which Hannan himself has had to acknowledge.
Your comments on Peter Mullen’s today are a million times better even though you agree with him. Why does nobody ever mention that that great "traditionalist" is a divorcee remarried civilly to the parishioner with whom he conducted an affair that led to him being censured?
Reading you below the line is the only remaining reason to read Telegraph Blogs and is rapidly becoming the only reason to read Coffee House, either.
It beggars belief that the likes of Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch, Stephen Pollard, Oliver Kamm and Andrew Anthony are still employed. As for Gilligan, he has gone from the man who revealed the dodgy dossier to the Boris-licking cyberstalker of some local politician in the East End. How are the might fallen. I see that even you have given up posting superior material under his blogs. No wonder no-one clicks on them anymore, your "comments" were the only things on the page worth reading.
ReplyDeleteLoving the way you are riling them on this point over on Brogan's risible blog about how much trouble Miliband is supposedly in. How will they report the now inevitable Labour overall majority in 2015, by not mentioning it, or by announcing a Tory victory?
ReplyDeleteThe latter, I expect. They announced a Conservative victory after that party's defeat in 2010, and then they carried on doing so with such relentlessness that eventually even the Queen had to give in.
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