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In the very early days of the coalition and the austerity programme in 2010 I singled out the YouGov “who’s to blame for the cuts” tracker as a good monitor – because placing the blame on the “past lot” has been such a key part of coalition rhetoric. It is one that I have gone back to regularly especially when milestones are reached.
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@Scrapheap EVENS the Cons in Rochester, how much?
In this context, the figure should be 30%, not 3%
FPT: A pink van, because it's for women? Bit surprising from Labour.
http://order-order.com/2015/02/10/labour-unveil-crap-budget-battle-bus/
@GuidoFawkes: What do you feel when you see a pink van @Ed_Miliband? http://t.co/9ZxvBXG7Ls http://t.co/jyapRWBD8d
That would be just too perfect
@MrHarryCole: errr RT @HarrietHarman: @Kevin_Maguire @GuidoFawkes blue = Tory!!
@MrHarryCole: @HarrietHarman @GuidoFawkes what does pink equal?
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11781662.Green_could_be_the_new_red_in_Redcar/
That is a doctored picture Scott?
Oh good, you have seen the actual van?
or even the original picture?
The first step requires attaching blame squarely to government policy. If the public see it as a 50:50 split between the government and the opposition then I don't think they are going to be that receptive to listening to the second step.
This seems to be what is happening in Ashcroft's focus groups. People agree with quite a bit of the criticisms that Labour has of the government, but they simply assume that Labour's answer is to spend until the money runs out. They aren't listening because they feel they have the measure of what Labour are about.
I bet the van doesn't look as good as the mirthmobile.
A slightly less confusing question is "who do you hold responsible for the economic collapse between 2005-2010 (hint: it wasn't the current government of steadfast guardians of economic growth who have taken tough choices when implementing their long term economic plan for the benefit of all). Was it a) Labour scum under that prat Gordon Brown and that war-monger Tony Blair with help from assorted kitten-stranglers or b) the Coalition Govt.?"
I am doing my best Fraser impression here claiming we are all doomed and Labour are just embarrassing. Mandelson must be looking at this target rich environment and the failure to strike with disbelief and no doubt all of his usual cynicism.
Will jack Dromey be driving the All Wimmin Bus?
"When are Socrates and Audrey allowed back to play?"
They're both auditioning for parts in the remake of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfO4FmvHwi8
For some reason Bab's Cabs pink taxi sprung to mind when I read that Guido post about Labour's pink van.
Indeed - party on dude..!
@GuidoFawkes: LABOUR CHAOS: first it was a pink bus, now @GloriaDePiero says its "cerise" and @HarrietHarman says "magenta". Can't they agree on anything?
Mr. P, maybe it's fuchsia?
Everyone is calling the demands Greece is making reparations, but reparations are a fee charged to the loser to make good the damage that the invaders did, but this is not reparations, it is calling in a loan.
On n March 14, 1942 the Greeks were forced to make a ruinous a war loan of 476million Reichsmarks to Germany, not a pfennig of interest or principal has ever been paid.
In 1939, there were 10.86 Reichmarks to the Pound (http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/exchange.html)
Therefore that loan was worth approximately £43.8 Million pounds in 1942.
Using the Bank of England Inflation calculator, that sum was worth £1.8 Billion for the principal alone.
Add in interest and you are looking at tens of Billions. No wonder the Greeks are p*ss*d off.
At what time may we expect to hear His Masters Voice?
Still, it explains Ed's diary clash today.
Rochester and Strood for Tories has gone from "Throw kitchen sink at it" to "We'll win it back easily in May" to quietly dropped as a target
You don't buy all that 'the greeks are victims bullsh8t do you? The euro gave the Greeks a life style they could only dream of and they bought boats and BMWs.
Now the bill for that is coming, they want some other person to pay?
The Germany owe them money?? do me a favour
http://www.postimg.org/image/n7h0yoaht/
Labour should have had the courage of its convictions and used a white one.
Give me a break.
Here's my free tip for Labour: stop sneering at women you don't understand (T Hunt, pay attention), stop condescending, stop patronising. And stop assuming that the only thing women voters care about is childcare - as if women's only real role relates to children.
Given Labour's record when faced with real children needing care I'd take my chances with Herod.
Where was the picture used taken from?
It cant be the original, and there are more clues if you look closely.
"At a briefing for Westminster journalists, Ms Harman said that while Labour would be highlighting policies on issues such as childcare and domestic violence, David Cameron and the Conservatives had nothing to offer female voters."
Leaving childcare [don't have any, but it's my understanding men play something of a role in children's creation and lives...], a large minority, circa 40% or more, of domestic violence victims are men attacked by women (obviously it also occurs in homosexual relationships).
Claiming it as a 'woman's issue' is not only inaccurate and unhelpful, it's harmful. It's very hard for a victim of domestic abuse to come forward, and perhaps even more so if the victim is a man. Instead of shouting about fallopian-deprived apes making things horrid for her ovarian sisters, Harman should try engaging her brain.
Edited extra bit: story link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31376622
Wider audience for Labour's pink bus. Mandelson and Campbell knew how to avoid such crap, and Blair won 3 elections. Why can't Ed recognise that.
The reaction to this has pretty much killed its chances of ever actually appearing in the wild.
Whey the hell do Labour need a van specially for women, whatever colour it is? Do they have some special van for the old? Or for Northerners?
What patronising twaddle - a party that thinks all members of some group all think in the same way and have the same interests and need to be bought off with special sweeties for that group. Women and childcare; men and well, what?, ethnic minorities and immigration, etc etc.
Just behave like grown ups and treat us as grown ups.
Honestly, Labour were once a serious political party with politicians one could respect, even if one disagreed with their views. Now they have all the gravitas of a first year students' union composed of people studying sociology.
To be honest, both sides would probably benefit from masterly inactivity and keeping their powder dry.
Hope they aren't going to let Harriet drive it given her record. DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM....
Perhaps it only ever existed as an internet spoof?
The chances of labour specifying a custom shade of red for election vans is pretty remote.
Usually they are standard lease vehicles with stick on transfers.
Well, there's your problem, right there.
Not to mention the fact that there are problems with domestic violence against women in some communities whose support Labour is anxious to get. In those cases, violence against women is overlooked on a prolonged and heroic scale, in case it should upset the males of the tribe.
twitter.com/patrickwintour/status/565209160066039808
If it wasn't that I'd be sure to be the kiss of death I'd predict a surprisingly good election for Labour. Though I haven't met many anyone impressed with Ed yet I've come accross a surprising number who don't rate Cameron