Question: It infuriates me,nearly every day, to read that Labour do nothing but condemn the work of the coalition and oppose nearly all the spending cuts that are necessary (yes - there are a few we could do without) and are a result of the Labour legacy. It seems to me that Labour have lost touch and did nothing but spend, spend and spend. Cuts are essential and it wouldn't have mattered who would have been in government - so don't deny it! Unfortunately, it is us as young people who are going to bear the burden in the future!! And secondly, I note that Ed Milliband won the Labour Leadership and was quoted saying that they were out of touch and he was the one to unite the party: well can I say that all candidates (but Diane Abbot) were a member of the last Labour government and could do something about - they did not, no point in blaming Gordon Brown for everything. Furthermore, John Prescott lost the treasurer election because of trade union votes and Ed won because of Trade Union Votes - Have Labour abandoned the centre ground and moved to the left??? I await your reply.
Asked by william to Ted, Jane, Elaine, Alastair on 28 Sep 2010 in Categories: General.
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As you would exepct I disagree with you. The UK is currently out of recession and that is due to the action taken by Alistair Darling – and is jeopardised by the more savage cuts which will be introduced by George Osborne. The previous Labour government did say that they would have to reduce the deficit, but we wanted to wait until the economy had recovered further. Ed Milliband was elected (narrowly) through the votes of individual members of the trades unions, not by the block vote of trade unions. I certainly don’t blame Gordon Brown for everything, I had a lot of respect for Gordon. But there would be no point in not admitting that although the Labour government did many good things – minimum wage, tax credits etc. we made some mistakes such as on Iraq and civil liberties. I don’t think we have “abandonned” the centre ground but we had seemed to have lost the confidence of many traditional Labour voters and we need to regain that. Also I personally wasn’t keen on the “New Labour” title will be quite pleasedd if Ed drops the new bit!
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Yes, they do go on a bit, but as a Scottish nationalist I’m not really interested in a bun fight between the two biggest English based parties- Labour and Tory. They’re like tweedledum and tweedledee to me None of them have the best interests of Scotland at heart and the sooner we break free from London government the better. Yawn!
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Morning William. We shall have to wait to see what Mr Milliband does with his party. I think he has a very difficult time ahead of him, because he is in that position through the final round votes of the associate (union) members. The unions will believe they have a right to a place in the sun, while he has to keep the parliamentary party warm and sweet, and they are MPs because they attracted people to vote for them who are not naturally very left leaning. (Most of them voted for his brother David; they will be feeling a tad uncomfortable)
With reference to the coming cuts. You have put your finger on the issue. It is your generation that will be paying off debts incurred by mine. Mr Darling steered a proposal through Parliament to cut the deficit (not the debt) in half in four years. That did not seem overly ambitious, bearing in mind that the debt is nearing a trillion pounds. It was clear that he recognised the need for (a wee bit of) action. The Coalition thinks it needs to be quicker.
I have been interested in the level of approval in the coalition: the public really rather like it when politicians concentrate on substantial argument. Unfortunately, the press is less keen.
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