Interesting PMQ's. Ed Miliband's attempts to link Energy prices to his cost of living stick enabled Cameron to come back and highlight this Government's record pulling the poorest workers out of tax, freezing council tax and fuel duty. It also then opened the door for Cameron to bring Labour's own record in Office on fuel duty, council tax and that removal of the 10p tax in comparison. I would have added in the continued low interest rates that have kept mortgages manageable during these austere times. These are effective policies that this Government has implemented to help with the cost of living vs a promise from Ed Miliband.
Miliband turned the ball away from the Government goals and dribbled it all the way back down the pitch to his own goals, and then he struck it squarely in the back of the net. We ended up talking about the last Labour Government's record in Office, not something that Miliband can defend. Someone from the Scottish Lab team in Holyrood should have given him the heads up on why this strategy is a gift to Cameron. I saw Salmond take up the invitation in the last Scottish FM questions.
Subnormal interest rates are not a good thing. It rewards the reckless at the expense of the prudent.
@Tim I'm sure the BBC News reporter said- he was a little known minister...
As for Cameron's green tax stuff, he still appears to be wedded to it - gas, electricity, petrol, diesel, fuel duty...Does he have the gumption to scrap them?
Will a market open up on which Labour Front bencher is first to apologise over plodgate?
Have the Prime Minister and Home Secretary apologised?
Labour is not involved -- that's the point many on pb miss.
I got arrested once. Police lied under oath and their false statements resembled each other. Cost me a great deal. Fact is, they do it and sometimes they do it for no rhyme or reason other than self promotion. When they get caught for similar as Mitchell had then I cannot help smiling. As I said, when they stitched me up, "it's not like this on the Bill is it?" Oh how they laughed.....
What I can't get over is the number of papers and commentators questioning why Cameron didn't release the CCTV immediately - I've heard and read nearly nothing else.. tim, you found the KEY issue, as ever
Ha! Ha! The Con MP on WATO came armed with the unemployment stats (down 19%) for the Labour MP, Gloria De Piero......she's stayed on to talk about the Fabian Society plans for Labour spending.....absolutely guarantees the pensioner's triple lock.....
What I can't get over is the number of papers and commentators questioning why Cameron didn't release the CCTV immediately - I've heard and read nearly nothing else.. tim, you found the KEY issue, as ever
To be serious, there is almost certainly more footage that has not been released.
''He's been criticised in the past for not following up with ideas that work, he'll carry on long after we are bored on here, but thats when it starts to sink in among the public. You can sense the Sun knows that''
Are you saying the Sun supports Milliband now simply because he proposed a fundamentally dishonest price freeze in energy prices? goodness me, Trevor Kavanagh's got way more sense than that.
The Sun's just using ed as a stick to beat the government because it knows this is something that really concerns its readers.
Cameron's painted himself into a corner on this, as you've pointed out, but that isn't going to stop the right wing media trying.
Re; the topic and vote share, doesn't a leading and respected poller say that it is the share of the vote and its consistency that matters rather than the day to day fluctuations in poll leads that seem to generate so much shrieking and hysteria here ?
And it was Roger who first awarded it to Dave.....
I may agree with Cameron lacks answers on living standards but bringing on little lord Fauntleroy George eaton does make me laugh,the guy is so up miliband he should get a job as a labour spin doctor.
I would pay more attention to Forsyth or Fraser than Isabel
I think Isabel is right - the price freeze/50p tax are economically illiterate policies which sound good....they do need to come up with a good "retail offer".
they do need to come up with a good "retail offer".
Wrong. The last thing Cameron should be doing is getting into a price war on undeliverable living cost promises with ed.
The public will see through it, just as they see through offers to consolidate loans, transfer bank accounts, switch energy suppliers and even place free bets.
You might save initially, but they always get it back in the end. And Ed would get it back in the end - big time.
Well thats the Sun, Spectator and the News Staesman's verdicts dispatched then Hurrah for the PB Tories, Dave did indeed smash it out of the park and anyone who disagrees is biased.
God tim,you use to be better than this,now you going on ed did win PMQ's and trying to prove it = lol
I thought PMQs were a lot more heat than light to be honest. Cameron had a lot of stats at his disposal today, by far the best of which is the 1m jobs line.
Ed's attack on cost of living crisis really did not work at all. He did better on the energy issues by pointing out the support given by the tories to his energy bill. There is quite a bit more mileage in this one for him I suspect.
The hug a huskie line was just terrible.
Cameron clearly had the advantage today but not in a way that is likely to win him many votes. If he gets the 1m jobs line on the news it will be job well done. If he doesn't I suspect it was all a bit of a waste of effort.
For Labour MPs it was a bit of a come down. Rightly or wrongly Ed has been making the political weather since his conference speech. That may have ended.
@taffys - the governments problem is they are clearly winning on a pretty abstract concept "the economy" - but are floundering on a more concrete one "cost of living" - where a lot of their "wins" are things that didn't happen - Council tax increases, fuel duty & so on. They need a sharper story - and pronto.
What is the SUN to do. Hypocritical to the end, it will jump on the Miliband bandwagon a few weeks before it is absolutely certain that he is going to win. The it will announce that "It was the SUN wot won it". Cameron is dead in the water.
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W Mids police & crime commissioner Bob Jones backs his Chief & officers saying it's "Westminster Club" v police on the ground re #plebgate
A long time member of various policing boards and authorities.
Also a Labour man in what wouldn't otherwise be a highly political issue.
Labour is not involved -- that's the point many on pb miss.
We're going to need a list of who isnt a PB Tory soon.
When they get caught for similar as Mitchell had then I cannot help smiling.
As I said, when they stitched me up, "it's not like this on the Bill is it?"
Oh how they laughed.....
Case closed then......
And it was Roger who first awarded it to Dave.....
You can sense the Sun knows that''
Are you saying the Sun supports Milliband now simply because he proposed a fundamentally dishonest price freeze in energy prices? goodness me, Trevor Kavanagh's got way more sense than that.
The Sun's just using ed as a stick to beat the government because it knows this is something that really concerns its readers.
Cameron's painted himself into a corner on this, as you've pointed out, but that isn't going to stop the right wing media trying.
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Wrong. The last thing Cameron should be doing is getting into a price war on undeliverable living cost promises with ed.
The public will see through it, just as they see through offers to consolidate loans, transfer bank accounts, switch energy suppliers and even place free bets.
You might save initially, but they always get it back in the end. And Ed would get it back in the end - big time.
Ed's attack on cost of living crisis really did not work at all. He did better on the energy issues by pointing out the support given by the tories to his energy bill. There is quite a bit more mileage in this one for him I suspect.
The hug a huskie line was just terrible.
Cameron clearly had the advantage today but not in a way that is likely to win him many votes. If he gets the 1m jobs line on the news it will be job well done. If he doesn't I suspect it was all a bit of a waste of effort.
For Labour MPs it was a bit of a come down. Rightly or wrongly Ed has been making the political weather since his conference speech. That may have ended.