Dear Ed,
Cameron's photographer???? Is that really the most important issue for those 6 precious questions?
"Mr Cameron, do you think poor students will be deterred by tuition fees of "9000 a year?
"Mr Cameron, where exactly will the 200,000 people shunted out of wealthy areas by the Housing Benefit cap go?"
"Mr Cameron, Was it a defeat to have to pay a 2.9% increase to the EU budget?"
"Mr Cameron, Is the immigration cap going to harm business?"
"Mr Cameron, how many sick and disabled people will suddenly have their benefits stopped after one year?"
"Mr Cameron, Are you actually going to be ABLE to stop paying child benefit to families with a higher rate taxpayer or is the measure, indeed "un-enforcable"?"
You can use those free of charge next week Ed.
sadly labours leader is not yet up on the facts of life, we need to explain them to him.
ReplyDeleteI mean for god sake if you take all the great people Labour called in to be special advisor's at a cost of 139 million like our Dearly beloved Freud, Sugar and i could go on for hours, Cherie hair dressing bills the abuse of expenses.
But yes Cameron photographer is now being paid by the poor poor tax payers, never mind a few disabled people committing suicide will pay for that.
Robert....I think there is a danger of getting carried away here, taxes are paid by individuals and organisations, and in the context of a photographer, your allusion to the, 'poor,poor' taxpayers is a bit OTT, there might be a billionaire or two, out there, who like the idea of lay-public representatives and visiting groups having their photos taken with the PM, I don't mind at all, and as for a few disabled people committing suicide, paying for it, well, I hear what you say but, a bit extreme don't you think ! :-)
ReplyDeleteColin - Are you there? I guess you must read as you commented so quickly on the cerebral palsy comment.
ReplyDeleteI just read this, and after our discussion a while ago, I thought you'd be interested. Whoops Gideon...
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/markets/article.html?in_article_id=517586&in_page_id=3&expand=true
Sue,
ReplyDelete:( What is Ed playing at?
Eoin - I daren't say too much, but if he isn't genuinely angry, worried and motivated at the moment, he shouldn't have gone for the job imo.
ReplyDeleteIt felt like a boys club to me today. "We'll play the game, but it's all about scoring points."
When will it be about principle and passion again Eoin?
I must have gone to fast I though people would have got it.
ReplyDeleteCameron's photographer will not be taking photographs, he has become a special adviser to the Tory Party on matters of media, he will be getting about £90,000 to £110,000 in wages, yes you have it from the tax payers. Remember those same tax payers Blair and Brown felt the disabled cheats and scroungers were hurting so badly claiming benefits while they should be working.
Now then to day Ed The Eagle Miliband asked a question about the special advisor's even thought his own party spent a total of nearly 1 billion, this includes a fund to be used for the media, which was used to inform the media about all those disabled people who cheated, scrounged, and were in fact work shy, remember Blair saying it's not fair for a GP to place people onto benefits, even thought Blair knew we all have to go through a medical from the DWP or the new ones from ATOS.
I've explained it the best I can.
ED Miliband wrote speeches for both Blair and Brown on welfare.....
I get the horrible feeling that nobody in government - on any side of the House - is actually paying any real attention to what matters.
ReplyDeleteThe poor - and the soon-to-be-impoverished won't just fade away gracefully.
I think Ed as probably playing the Daily Mail card. When Jacqui Smith was first MP to have her expenses exposed in the media Cameron made some comment along the lines of he always asked himself the question 'how would it look on the front page of the Daily Mail.' The Daily Mail ran with the photographer story on it's website and Cameron took a real kicking in the comments posted below the story.
ReplyDeleteBy keeping the story in the public eye Ed is probably hoping that the DM will keep banging on about it as well. I think if he had asked any of the other questions you have suggested the Daily Mail would have just ignored him.
I'm sure you're right Crispin, but that just says it all about where we've got to.
ReplyDeleteThis feeding frenzy has switched people so far off, we seem to be missing the point too often.
Up and down the country, people are howling with outrage and fear.
I'm starting to get worried by EM's performance as leader.
ReplyDeleteI was neutral when he was elected but.....
Labour will pull ahead anyway as people see for themselves what the cuts mean , but the annoying thing is I get the feeling we could be doing much better.
How long can we keep saying 'it's still early days'...?
If you were a proper leader you wouldn't need to have any help in writing a speech on the sick it should come naturally from the heart
ReplyDeleteanyone in politics who cant right a compassionate speech on welfare is a con man and needs kicking out I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life even my daughter who is 17 can write a superb speech on many subjects just like i could when i was her age
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ReplyDeleteJulian said...
I'm starting to get worried by EM's performance as leader.
I was neutral when he was elected but.....
Labour will pull ahead anyway as people see for themselves what the cuts mean , but the annoying thing is I get the feeling we could be doing much better.
How long can we keep saying 'it's still early days'...?
he is not much of a leader and struggles with his focus
He should be forceful and direct and be clamping down on all sorts of things in which would make a difference to the country
more social housing proper sentencing for criminal's oversees tax avoidance bad customer services which affect all business in the UK and so many other things that crop up in our daily lives
and leave the sick alone and don't bully the week
focus on what matters and was is right but more importantly what makes common sense so everyone understands