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Not if your pay has been frozen and CPI is 0%Keep up, wages are rising faster than inflation.
Not if your pay has been frozen and CPI is 0%Keep up, wages are rising faster than inflation.
Not if your pay has been frozen and CPI is 0%
Michael Foot was a brilliant orator who stood by his principles , if the daily nationals with a rightist agenda slag you off there isn't much you can do about it.
I don't disagree with the first bit but to claim "if the daily nationals with a rightist agenda slag you off there isn't much you can do about it" is disingenuous. Foot's vision of a socialist Britain - whilst deeply intellectual and worthy I am sure - just didn't earn broad support. Gerald Kaufman famously called the 1983 Labour manifesto "the longest suicide note in history."
I don't disagree with the first bit but to claim "if the daily nationals with a rightist agenda slag you off there isn't much you can do about it" is disingenuous. Foot's vision of a socialist Britain - whilst deeply intellectual and worthy I am sure - just didn't earn broad support. Gerald Kaufman famously called the 1983 Labour manifesto "the longest suicide note in history."
Interestingly, many economists are predicting just that. The gdp growth slow down that we saw last quarter was predicted about a year ago. It was that reason that the labour and tory manifestos looked like cross dressing. Labour couldn't over promise and bribe as they really believe the economy will tank.
I'm not saying they're right, but just saying thay eminent economists do think this will happen and that austerity has impacted our ability to withstand it.
Do you have an article about this by chance? Sounds interesting
Again I have answered all this, you only have to read.
And you seem to have confused a temper with my mild frustration at your inability to read and/or interpret opposing points of view. I'm sure it's not your fault, I think you must do it subconsciously.
But I can only imagine how you'd react to people ignoring your dreary lecturing you like to dress up as intellectual thinking. And believe me, it's hard work reading your posts. I really struggle to believe you're a journalist to be honest. You can spell but your writing style is woefully lacking any sort of bite, beyond an ability to grate that Katie Hopkins would be proud of.
Peter Oborne's attack is two years old now but it's a fair assessment.
I will never, ever understand this idea that David Miliband has any value as a politician: to my mind, he's' the epitome of a talentless party hack. For all his faults, Ed is miles ahead of him as a statesman and today's interview is a reminder of his inadequacies
I think the one very positive thing we can take from the past few days is that 22,000 people have signed up to join the Labour party since last Thursday night. This is reminscent of the numbers that flooded into the SNP last year in the wake of their referendum defeat. The SNP were able to turn the disappointment of defeat round very quickly by using the energy of their new activists to make a difference in their communities - Labour must now the harness of the energy of their new activists
I think the one very positive thing we can take from the past few days is that 22,000 people have signed up to join the Labour party since last Thursday night. This is reminscent of the numbers that flooded into the SNP last year in the wake of their referendum defeat. The SNP were able to turn the disappointment of defeat round very quickly by using the energy of their new activists to make a difference in their communities - Labour must now the harness of the energy of their new activists
We must have a representative democracy in this country, not this shambles we have at the moment. We are the laughing stock of the world.
The perfect man to make mincemeat of the Cameron/Buffoon Boris reign of incompetence and elitist spite over the next five years.
The NHS will be the No1 issue for the British public and there is not a man in Parliament better equipped and with more passion to lead the fight to save Britain's best loved institution.
Andy will sail through the Labour leadership campaign given all the Tony Blair soundalikes will end up acheiving backing from the Tory press but from sod all else.
Best footballer in Parliament too so shitty rags like the Sun are going to have to think up new lines other than too geeky, too nerdy etc
To my fellow NSC lefties, we've had a few days licking our wounds but enough of that - the fightback starts now and we never give up!!!
The days of the NHS privatising, fox hunt restoring, human rights abolishing shower are numbered
after watching him on the Andrew Marr show this morning, I think you might just be right, best of the bunch
He seems a nice chap, with the others falling by the wayside, backing out etc, he seems the only choice. The Labour party are in a mess, and they felt they were in a position to run the country.........
Just wait til the Tories realise they will have to elect the philandering buffoon with way more skeletons in his cupboard than poor Chuka, then you will see a proper meltdown