The Defence Secretary, tries to label Labour & Miliband as weak on defence alleging that Labour would not replace Trident. Due to the unnecessary and scurrilous allegations made, the issues surrounding Trident are lost in the noise and the debate becomes one of character, which Miliband wins again!
This is a storify I made at the time and have transferred it to this blog and published as at the date created. …
RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian warplanes in UK airspace. Just as well the UK collaborated with the French and Italians since it was they who wanted an air defence variant; mind you we lack a ground attack ‘plane.
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What Ed said when launching the manifesto, the tag line is, “We believe that Britain only succeeds when working families succeed” but the obverse is that just because it’s working for the few, be they rent takers, landlords, entrepreneurs or press barons doesn’t mean its working for everyone, in fact it’s a proof point that it isn’t. NB A leader of the Labour Party said that, although his words are better than mine.
I also like the line that Cameron strongly stands against the weak, and also does the opposite.
Miliband points out that the NHS needs staff, which will be provided, Labour will prohibit profit in the NHS and repeal the Tory’s Health and Social Care bill which is also their platform for privatisation. No wonder the Tories offer to fund increases in the NHS; it’ll go straight into the pockets of the privateers and finance houses.
Some who abandoned Labour over the war in Iraq might want to see what Ed says, the lessons have been learned. We’ll not act alone again.
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Labour launches its Manifesto with the tag line, “We believe that Britain only succeeds when working families succeed”. In his speech at the launch, Ed Miliband further makes the point that the obverse, that just because it’s working for the few, be they rent takers, landlords, entrepreneurs or press barons doesn’t mean its working for everyone, in fact it’s a proof point that it isn’t. N.B. A leader of the Labour Party said that, although his words are better than mine. It’s the first time in a long while that the Tories are going to have to argue why it’s in the interests of the majority that the economy is structured in the interests iof the rich. It’s an end of consensus that “trickle down” works. …
They’ve made a film of the legal case around the “recovery” of Klimt’s “Woman in Gold”, and by recovery we mean the judicial transportation from a public gallery in Austria to a private collection in the USA. I am torn between being fascinated by the story and outraged by its outcome. …
I watched “Johnny Mnemonic”, again over the weekend. I had forgotten that Gibson had the screen writing credit. Johnny is a short story, published most recently in “Burning Chrome” and gets three paragraphs in “Neuromancer”, the first of his “Sprawl” trilogy; in the film the book’s Molly becomes Jane, played by Dina Meyer, who doesn’t do it for me although to my mind it’s mainly the writing. Molly Millions is hard core, street samurai. The film is also more broadly inspired than just the short story, borrowing a number of ideas from Gibson’s Virtual Lights trilogy. It’s almost as if Gibson didn’t expect to get another chance on film. …
Oh Non Dom we’re not! Miliband announces that a Labour Government will abolish so called #non-dom #taxrelief and the Tories defend the rights of ultra rich to avoid paying their fair tax share. #ge2015. The story spirals out of the Tory’s control, becomes more about tax avoidance by the rich.
This is a storify I made at the time and have transferred it to this blog and published as at the date created. …
By the end of the day, the attempt to paint Labour as nuclear disarmers, has turned into a debate on personal decency, started by Fallon’s disgraceful personal slurs about Miliband’s fratricide. The Tories, of course, come off worse.
By the end of the day, the attempt to paint Labour as nuclear disarmers, has turned into a debate on personal decency, started by Fallon’s disgraceful personal slurs about Miliband’s fratricide. The Tories, of course, come off worse. …
I was out on the doorstep tonight, campaigning for Vicky Foxcroft, Labour’s candidate for MP in Deptford. I met a number of interesting people and these are my notes, thanks to those who spoke to me about tactical voting, the middle east, racism, welfare and Labour’s representation of its core suport, the working class. …