Ed Milliband really is a numpty...
- Thread starter Havana_UK
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Yes....but look at the lock in prices on those long term deals.....not saying what labour are proposing is correct or right for the country, but to say because you can get a lock in now, labour aren't offering anything different is wrong.
As a home owner a 1 year lock in seems the best and then shop around (although EDF whom I am with seemed to offer a good deal a few months ago so Im locked in till April 2014 on 2011 prices by extending my lock in)
Are labour saying its a lock in at whatever market price is in 2015, or are they setting a price cap - this wasn't clear in his speech and they are completely different - the former is election bravo meaning nothing as we can all get it now, the latter is a return to price controls and a reduction in the free market.....
wouldn't have happened if it weren't for labour though so they will claim it as a victory and proof they can make changes that impact the population
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...re-rising-but-now-you-can-fix-until-2017.html
Telegraph said:
Not unless Labour want to unveil the time machine they achieved it with?
they will claim it anyway most of their voters will be blissfully unaware
when are you getting your freeeeeddoooom anyway? seems to be a long time coming
It's kind of sad that he's going to lose an election against a government which is almost universally despised. That takes some doing.
Universally despised? I'm not quite sure you understand how the democratic vote works...
At least he pulls his phrases around to sort of answer the questions in that one, and also adds a few new sentences here and there. Miliband's was just hilarious in that he ignored each question completely and said exactly the same thing each time, just back to front occasionally!
Though ultimately i agree, they are all mostly weasels.
Just switching to America here for the moment; Whether people agree with Obama's policies or not, at least he is a damn fine statesman and a very VERY good and articulate public speaker. He actually comes across as an intelligent person and it is quite clear that he IS a very intelligent man.
To put Milliband in the same boat as Obama, as a potenital leader of one on the worlds largest economies is frightening in the extreme.
The guts of what he's saying, over and over again, is "Labour is different to the current government".
Many people are having a crap time under the current government, so many people find "different to the current government" an appealing message. Throw in some content-free statements that pretend to be promises (we'll do this, that and the other...but we won't explain how) and it's a winner.
It doesn't have to be true, it just has to be politically useful. People don't really expect truth from politicians who are trying to get (re)elected.