Ed Miliband is not a great speaker. Nor is his brother. But he did all right.
It was a pity that he did not mention the deficit. He should have pointed out that George Osborne had increased it by more than all Labour Chancellors put together, including Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling.
It was a pity that he did not mention immigration. He should have pointed out that that it had increased by a record 38 per cent this year.
It is not "a core vote strategy" to appeal to support for the NHS. Oh, for a core vote encompassing everyone of that mind. Whatever the BBC might think, those comprise a great deal more than 35 per cent.
It is not "a core vote strategy" to appeal to support for the NHS. Oh, for a core vote encompassing everyone of that mind. Whatever the BBC might think, those comprise a great deal more than 35 per cent.
His commitment to carbon-free electricity did not negate his prior commitments to the coal industry and to the NUM, because of how coal is now burned, especially in countries that now do it better than we do, which is rather a lot of them.
And like Ed Balls, he talked about "devolution to the cities and counties of England". We are pretty much looking at both the boundaries and the powers of English local government as they existed in 1978.
Except that devolution while the EU makes 70% of our laws and controls our borders just means gutting Parliament of what little powers it still has so we can be Balkanised into regions of Europe. The only "devolution" we really need is devolution of power from Brussels (which strips more of our sovereignty away every day). But strangely enough that's the one form of "devolution" that is never on offer.
ReplyDeleteFunny, that.
Your celebration of the fake "devolution" the Europhile think tanks ceaselessly propose shows you have no idea who really governs our country or what this is all about.
There can be no real "devolution" in the EU as we no longer run our own country.
You need to read more than one journalist.
DeleteEven reading him properly would be an improvement.