Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

hays stop talking tosh. Watch Labour gain a 5% lead in this weekends polls.

Hays do you want a gentlemans bet say a tenner.????

The public won't even understand his speech. That's really his trouble. He thinks an attempted intellectual argument will sway the public.

Ed Miliband unveils Labour pledges on deficit and NHS

Leader pledges that if party wins election it will cut deficit every year while securing the future of the health service



Patrick Wintour, political editor


The Guardian, Thursday 11 December 2014 11.34 GMT





Ed Miliband has unveiled the first of Labour’s five election pledges, promising to cut the deficit every year and secure the future of the NHS.

The full pledge reads: “We will build a strong economic foundation and balance the books. We will cut the deficit every year while securing the future of the NHS. And none of our manifesto commitments will require additional borrowing.”

In a speech on Thursday, the Labour leader sought to capture the middle ground on the deficit, saying he would not follow the Conservatives’ plan for cutting total public spending to 35% of GDP. Instead, he promised to reduce spending in most departments year-on-year until the current deficit was eliminated.

He said Labour was engaged in a fight for the soul of Britain, and asserted that Tory fiscal plans would result in the disintegration of public services.



more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/11/ed-miliband-labour-pledges-deficit-nhs

England cricket team trying to snatch another defeat from the jaws of victory!

"He thinks an attempted intellectual argument will sway the public".

Hays hays yes your right again, thats 2 times in two day well done.

That must be a record for you.

DB - nah; england now home and hosed .... root just whacked a 6

What ever happens in the polls Labour won't win the next GE all the time Milly is leader... The man can't even convince his own face he's telling the truth so its a no brainer that the general public don't trust him either.

Labour are behind on the economy by 3 to 1. Miliband's speech won't have changed that.

Shortie labour will be in power with the SDP who lets face it ARE labour but all in name , in fact they are more left wing than labour.

That will suit me after this lot under Camoron.

Now dont get me wrong Shortie I have voted twice for the Tories in the past BUT this present lot!!!!!!!!!! I ask you. NO CHANCE.

I bet if Davies was leader of the Tories they would have a 5 point lead at least. (and different front bench) not posh boys.

Hays do you really think the average sweaty builder and white van man gives a toss or even knows that fact. Stop talking silly.

The average sweaty builder thinks Milibland is a geek and an idiot.

Shortie, post 52743 - absolutely right. Miliband doesn't look comfortable in his own skin. Labour's Chris Leslie couldn't answer any questions posed by Andrew Neill on the Daily Politics show today.

The average sweaty builder would probably make a better leader of the Labour party than the present incumbent.

GOD as just spoken on Twitter........

Ed Miliband ‏@Ed_Miliband 28 seconds ago
Our economic plan: Sensible reductions in spending, not the Tory slash and burn of public services.

Hays the average sweaty builder and white van man thinks YOU are a geek and an idiot.

He may well be deluded into thinking he is god.

He can't be god as he doesn't believe in god.

Haze,

He shows a characteristic which you are obviously short of.

Looks like Dave as been on the pies and sauerkraut via his trip to Auschwitz.........

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