A bad news day for Labour, as the Tories get positive

Woody

About bloody time the MSM started to expose this rotten, mendacious, stinking barrel of rotting fish of a government.

TomTom

Whatever the issues around Sharon Shoesmith the trademark behaviour of New Labour Commissars to vilify individuals as "hate figures" redolent of '1984' is so reflex and so repeated that it is psychopathic.

Balls is such a clone of Brown that their coming together is almost'black magic' and their ability to attract the Damian McBride and Charlie Whelan figures to their clique is downright evil

davefromluton

Interesting that earlier in the week Labour were targeting Osborn as the weakest link and that again he finishes up wrong-footing them on a tax issue.
Perhaps he would like to consider abolishing National Insurance and integrating it into the tax system. He could than catch all those rich pensioners who don't pay NI.

emil

On the bad side will probably mean the election delayed until June , giving an extra 4 weeks to get all those postal votes in place...

Percy

You wait till Bob Crowe engineers a rail strike for election day.

patrick

Finally the penny drops and all the journalists who have allowed this lying Prime Minister and his thicket of Hyena's to so comprehensively ruin this Nation should hang their heads in shame.

Even our dear Fraser calls Brown's lies 'Brownies'.

They are not just ordinary Lies, they are Brown's Lies.

Irene

Let's hope the MSM stay on this track - which is the right and honest one IMO

annassasin

I don't like to brag..

A week ago thursday (if that makes sense) I commented in the Times, that the Tories had reached the low point in the pre-election campaign. All the comments at the time were of doom and gloom, however I could see the light and the news agenda changing, and BINGO.

There may be trouble ahead, Dispatches investigations, fox hunting, etc. The mood is changing and Gordon is now seen as a lier. The latter fact bieng crucial.

Reg511

BBC bias

Vulture

As Mel Phillips has pointed out elsewhere on this site, and Ed West and Gerald Warner have echoed over at the Telegraph, the Big Society idea ( Dave's wheeze of last week) is directly and openly inspired by the writings of a dead amoral American Marxist called Saul Alinsky, who, in his book "Rules for Radicals", recommended sending state trained and paid 'activists' to take over 'communities' and turn them into revolutiuonary cells.

Obama is an Alinsky-trained and acknowledged disciple; as is Ms. Dunn, the Maoist Obamaite currently over here advising the Tories on their campaign.

IN simple terms, what this means is that all three of our mainstream parties are now signed up to the Gramscian 'long march through the institutions' Marxist agenda.

I know the Conservatives are traditionally the stupid party, and Dave and his clique have taken full advantage of this to impose their 'Red Tory' game plan.

Bottom line: it doesn't matter whether the Tories or Liebore win the election. The long march through the institutions has reached its desired destination. If you don't believe me, read Mel, Ed and Gerald.

Gawain

The Labour body language and imagery on the BBC yesterday was also quite interesting. Shots were shown of Brown and Mandelson looking grim and leaden at a meeting with small business representatives. The press conference for the release of their smear on the Tories tax and saving plans looked defensive . They looked cornered and defensive. There is also a report on conservativehome this morning saying that the League Against Cruel Sports has been ticked off by the Charity Commission for dabbling in anti Conservative politics. So even the Labour fifth columnists are having to justify themselves. I just wonder if Gordon will wait until June.

Any Colour but Brown

"emil

On the bad side will probably mean the election delayed until June , giving an extra 4 weeks to get all those postal votes in place..."

I think the other parties have sussed that one. All returns of postal votes will be investigated thoroughly. The massed votes of the WWI & WWII dead for Labour will not pass unnoticed.

chris as usual

@Reg511
Since you bring up the BBC, I will add to your comment.

The BBC are demonstrating already in the campaign that they are incapable of bias, and use front people who are not up to it. They should clearly distinguish between news (and try to get that balanced properly) and political comment. I will go further. They should only put non-election news in the bulletins, and make it quite clear when they are dealing, separately, with election politics, and further, when that 'news' becomes pure political comment over which they have editorial control, people should be told that this is just what it is, someone's opinion.

Why, oh, why do they continue to give air time to useless failures like John Prescott?
When will David Dimbleby cease showing off?

If they don't behave properly in this election, I can see a big clear out as a major possibility as a result and quite right too.

Richard

Andy Coulson finally earning his crust then?

Don't crow too soon peeps there is a long way to go. I think you should look at exactly it is that you need to do to get a majority and then look at how much progress you have actually made.
I remember when Bush was going for his second term and all the chat and blogs predicted a drubbing.....when reality kicked them in the head he was returned with an increased majority for another 5 years.
Remember this is the warm up before kick off the game doesnt start until next week.

mike

All this stuff will be forgotten when we make the walk to cast our vote. Do we want to stay with those we know, or do we want the posh fellows to once again rule our land. I'll stick with Gordon for now, I remember how it was, most who post here don't, you'll be sorry.

Stevie

Actually Reg theBBC are still spinning in desaration for Nulabour. This very morning Victoria Derbyshire described the business leaders backing Osborne as 'Tory Donors'. The BBC have got a lesson coming their way and about time.

Michael Booth

According to the Mirror group...
'Labour produced a document saying there was a £22billion "credibility gap" between what the Tories wanted to spend and how much they planned to raise'.

So, if the ZanuLabour lexicon describes £22bn as a 'chasm' I wonder if Coffeehousers could suggest an adjective to describe the current state of the National Debt and deficit?

Ben Wright

But all of the Big3 parties have set out there stall to do nothing because they are too busy with political gimmicks which they believe will win them an election.

Labour are proposing a 1% National Insurance 'tax' hike which will cost jobs, the Conservatives claim they will have this rise while offering huge tax breaks. And how? Through 'efficiency savings.' And which government has ever successfully delivered those?

We need to address, as your article mentions, a crippling £167bn deficit and a spiralling national debt.

Jury Team say we need to limit government borrowing to within 10% of total spending instead of the crippling 25% which we have at them moment. Take a look at their policy: http://www.juryteam.org/p02-govt-borrowing.php

At last a sensible policy which makes a change from Labour focussing on National Insurance and the Conservatives attempting to play a 'three card trick' with public money.

TomTom

Now Brown switches on to Christians and No10 Spin Machine says how wonderful they are. To show the full insincerity he conflates all Christians with The Pope.

It would appear his father raised his little Marxist rather badly in assuming all roads lead to Rome

Andy

Micahel Booth - a 'Bruin'?

Moraymint

Yes, let's hope that the mainstream media (BBC excused, as usual, of course) keeps tightening the rack on this travesty of a government.

Let's further hope that, come election day, the government's reputation is finally shown to be what some of us have known it to be for many years: inglorious, deceitful and spectacularly incompetent.

Maybe soon after that we'll see the EU start down its own road to self-destruction ... Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has the Greek debacle nicely summed up here:

http://tinyurl.com/yf4bcsw

One wonders just how long our national and European political castes can keep this up? The sooner we expose and destroy our current political class and replace it with a new political order, the better.

I'm thinking of a political class underpinned by the philosophies of the likes of The Better Government Initiative, Migration Watch UK, The Taxpayers' Alliance, The UK National Defence Association and, dare I say, good ol' Dan Hannan's "The Plan - Twelve Months to Renew Britain".

As Henry Root would say, "Here's a pound - let's go!"

toco

If Sharon Shoesmith is awarded compensation not only should the deceitful and thuggish Ed Balls resign he should also be ordered to repay the taxpayers for any amount payable.If he is short I am sure his wife Yvette('don't call me pretentious')Cooper will be able to help out.

Kinglear

Mike you say you remember how it was?
You mean, we weren't at war, we had an improving economy, the debt was going down, taxes were stable, you were better off, the numbers of strike days per year was at an all time low, people took responsibility for their actions?
Oh yes, terrible wasn't it.
Every voter should have to write down a list of things each election day and have it archived ( dead easy with the internet now) and they can then get it out and look at it when the next election comes round. If your better off, keep with the same party, if worse vote for change.
Oh, and by the way, we didn't have over 5 million BRITISH people un or underemployed that are costing people who have a job billions upon billions

Nicholas

mike: "I remember how it was, most who post here don't, you'll be sorry.

What a ridiculously presumptuous comment. Wind your neck in, troll, because I do and I'm sure many of the other regular posters do too. I remember the unmitigated disasters of successive Labour governments since Attlee and this present one is certainly an exception. The worst of the lot.

Your predictable anti-Tory mythology counts for nothing here. No more Labour re-written history please! You are as deluded as that other Great Big Pain in the Arse, Little Richard.

Stupid Labour trolls camping on blogs to get in their eleventh hour soundbites. You've had your turn, you've had your ride, you've had your chance to lord it over us with your champagne socialist corruption, sleaze and nanny state. You are heading for electoral oblivion and good riddance.

Simon Stephenson

Ben Wright : 12.10pm

"Labour are proposing a 1% National Insurance 'tax' hike which will cost jobs, the Conservatives claim they will have this rise while offering huge tax breaks. And how? Through 'efficiency savings.' And which government has ever successfully delivered those?"

What I'm waiting for, Mr Wright, is a politician who is prepared to get up and say:-

"Professor Parkinson was right, you know, and the way we are going to achieve efficiency savings is to go into the Departments of State and eradicate every piece of valueless activity that has been created over the years through neglecting the warnings of his Law (see below)"

Not until I hear something along these lines am I prepared to give my vote to anyone.

http://www.heretical.com/miscella/parkinsl.html

Ron Todd

This story highlights the growing divide between the public and the wealth creating sectors.

In the public sector only the lethally incompotent (or those that speak ill of any of Labours client groups) get the sack. And the incompotent if they have been part of the establishment of people who know the right people that can get them the right job they can then ask for and expect to get a massive payout.

Paddy

Mike: I certainly remember how it was and it wasn' a pretty sight.

The sooner this lying, cheating pathetic excuse for a Government are wiped out the better.

My only worry is: Mandelson and Balls (as we speak) are trying to fix the vote.

Brown will either resign before the electio(because he's frightened of defeat) or he will have to be taken out of Downing St. kicking and screaming.

Ben Wright

@Simon Stephenson When politicians use a bit of honesty and say what they can can't do - i.e you can't give people money you haven't got - the Conservatives. And you can't destroy jobs through unnecessary National Insurance 'tax' rises. We don't need a Professor - we need less people playing political gimmickry.

Nigel T Packer

Ah 1997 I remember it well. Security, growth, low taxes, Then the devil raised his head and told us we needed to remove those that were bring the prosperity and replace them with New labour. The end of boom and bust, buy my Gold and you won't need that pension pot.

In the run up to the 1997 election Saatchi and Saatchi produced a video for the Conservatives. It was shown to John Major to decide if it was right to air just before the election. John Major considered the content would offend Tony Blaire and his religious beliefs and it was shelved.

Take a look at it and remember those times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxzBr-Wihg

If the film had run I think it would have stopped the new labour movement at that time. John Major was too nice.

TrevorsDen

The Indy's story of 'lies' not 'misleading' over the charity VAT is utterly beyond belief. Utterly disgraceful.

Balls' stitch up of Ofsted and Shoesmith is - well, utterly beyond belief. Utterly disgraceful. Not only remember dodgy dossier, remember Dr Kelly !

emil

Ah yes Mike I remember

Those terrible times when evil shopkeepers could sell goldfish to children without fear of punishment, when it wasn't more lucrative to scrounge on benefits rather than work, when big brother didn't have cameras everywhere and our bins weren't microchipped, but emptied weekly (oh and our laws were made in London, not Brussels) heaven forbid we should ever have to go back to such austere times again.

A pensioner

"The Haiti story could undermine Labour's claims to be the Party Who Care." You mean the 10p tax fiasco didn't, Pete?

Emil - how do you define a "rich" pensioner? £6.5k a year? That's when we start paying tax - and you want to increase it?

chris as usual

@Moraymint

Nice comment. The clearing of the stables will be more important than the "deficit".

JONNY

Why do you bother Richard?

Stevie

JONNY-because Unite pay him to, that's why.

TGF UKIP

Vulture, I fully agree with you and would most strongly recommend all Coffee Housers to read Mel Philips' piece on the true nature of and the menace that lies behind "community organisers."

It is yet another attack on the nation state from within, exactly the same as is the EU and Labour party regionalization agenda.

Nobody, and especially, it would seem, not the credulous hacks who write for the Spectator appears to recognize and accept that Dave and his mates are a party within the Tory Party - entryists no less than were Militant were into Labour in the seventies and eighties.

Did ever a party more richly deserve the sobriquet of The Stupid Party.

JohnBUK

Mike "...you'll be sorry"! Blimey we already are, believe me. Yes, let's have 5 more years of this expert on the economy - actually it'll last 2 months before govt. bond-holders decide otherwise.

Kel

Why does everyone especially the conservative buggers keep blaiming labour for the debt? IT WAS AMERICA AND THE BANKS! it WOULD HAVE HAPPEND NO MATTER WHO WAS IN POWER! if we want to suffer the wrath of margaret thatcher again then yey, lets vote conservative!