https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/28/ed-balls-labour-minister-memoir Ed Balls new book condemns Jeremy Corbyn’s "leftist utopian fantasy” and remains in denial of his part in the decline of Labour over the past ten years. Conservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns celebrates Not very long ago, during the last Labour government, it was stated in the media and on television programmes at the time, that Ed Balls was the best economist that the Labour party had. Well, he did not read the same text books or attend lectures with the same tutors as I did. In view of his forthcoming excursion into the world of reality entertainment, we should perhaps hope that his Paso Doble and Fox Trot are better than his understanding of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/27/ed-miliband-energy-price-controls-freeze-big-six Ed Miliband to propose fresh energy price controls Miliband will tell the Federation of Small Businesses that he wants to create an open market economy where small businesses can grow and make bigger profits. Ed Miliband. The "policy" to control energy prices is popular amongst a large proportion of the public, (aka. voters). The only question is which, of the variants from each of the major parties solutions to achieve the same objective, will the voters select as their preferred option? Each segment of the Coalition, Miliband's version of Labour, and soon no doubt to be joined by Farange and his UKIP, compete with each other to offer what they hope will be the most popular solution to solve the problem and "deal with the broken energy market" and finally end the energy companies cartel in the supply and distribution of energy in this cou...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/26/ed-miliband-welfare-rebellion_n_5033370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ed Miliband Faces Labour Rebellion For Backing Welfare Cap Ed Miliband:. More at home in the Conservative party? The Labour leader Ed Miliband has ordered his MPs to back the cap on overall welfare spending. This instruction to elected MP's, or at least the reasoning behind the order, demonstrates how far the Labour Party and its leadership has drifted away from the traditional base and principles of the Labour movement. Were this directive, enthusiastically endorsed by Balls and supported by the entire front bench of the Parliamentary Labor party, based on any sound economic benefit, then there may, just may, be some grounds for supporting such a policy. However, there is no such economic reasoning and the Labour MP's at least the majority of them, will troupe into the "Aye" lobby in support of the ConDem coalition and their Tory m...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-to-pledge-a-job-for-every-young-person-out-of-work-for-a-year-9180102.html?origin=internalSearch Labour to pledge a job for every young person out of work for a year Labour Pledges Jobs Guarantee Extension for 50,000 Long-Term Young Unemployed The Labour Party of 2014, follows in the wake of the Labour Party of the last 25 years. There is, and has been for decades, a fundamental flaw in the philosophy and policies of a party which addresses the problem of unemployment generally and, in this instance youth unemployment in particular, with the myth that says we can use taxpayers money (no matter from where such tax money may be sourced), to provide employers with a source of "free" labour and then claim that the government is doing a grand job of providing opportunities and reducing unemployment figures.The reality of course is that the government, be it Labour, Tory or Coalition, is doing nothing of the s...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/miliband-plans-to-cut-off-the-hand-that-fed-him-with-ambitious-plan-to-rob-trade-unions-of-their-onethird-share-of-labour-leadership-vote-9065436.html Miliband ready to abolish the electoral college in which unions, MPs and party members currently have 33 per cent of the voting power. cynicism and hypocrisy Miliband going down "Blair Street" thinking that the Trade Union movement have nothing to do with the Labour Party. Miliband minor should remember what Blair and Miliband major and all the other anti union "Labour" MP's attempted to forget in pursuit of the populist vote. The Trade Union Congress formed the Labour Party. It was the Trade Union Congress together with the Labour Party (in 1945 at least) who took on the employers and the ruling establishment. I have argued before and repeat now, that the TUC and all affiliated organisations should dump the Labour Party and create a Party from t...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/08/ed-balls-nick-clegg_n_4561996.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ed Balls Says He Could Join Coalition With Nick Clegg Balls and Clegg Another reason why politics in this country and its politicians, are loathed and despised. The prostitution of principle (if they have any) for the acquisition of power, no matter how corrupt or contaminated such power may be. The people of the country are sacrificed on the altar of the ego's and personal ambitions of shameless and self serving men (and women) more interested in their positions, salaries and expense accounts and other perks rather than working people, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed and the excesses of businesses, banks and privatised industries. The cynicism and hypocrisy of this arrogant posturing was a contributory factor in my decision to leave the labour Party some years ago. The "power at any cost" philosophy which was becoming the o...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/13/bob-crow-labour-party_n_3591038.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Break ties with Labour and create a party that "speaks for working people". Like a married couple who have been arguing and bickering for many years, the TUC and the Labour party should recognise that they have come to the end of the road and that the best option for both parties would be a swift and preferably amicable divorce.I have been arguing for some time that the TUC should end the relationship with Labour and field its own candidates at elections under a manifesto which reprsents working people and social structure rather than the finance and business interests wwhich now are the main areas of concern of the Labour party. I left Labour many years ago when Blair, Mandelson, Campbell and Brown "reformed" the party and created a centre ground "one size fits all" political grouping indistinguishable from Tory or LibD...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/26/job-seekers-allowance-spending-review_n_3503645.html?utm_hp_ref=uk There is no choice between the parties. They both seek to retain the "status quo". Chancellor George Osborne This country is lost in a quagmire of right centre politics, dominated by the Conservative and Labour parties preaching much the same policies as each other, but with marginally different emphases. The Liberal democrats are in the same dreamland, but flit around trying to find an opportunistic perch, upon which to alight and barter their few seats in the house of Commons in exchange for a few cabinet posts should either of the other parties fail to achieve an overall majority under our present antiquated and blatantly unfair voting system. All the while, the people of this nation remain locked into a situation where they have little control of their everyday environment and even less prospect of bringing about any real ...
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/why-im-leaving-labour/ The terminal decline of a once great party. Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution: To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service . (deleted by Blair in 1995) They are all the same now I left Labour many years ago when Blair, Mandelson, Campbell and Brown "reformed" the party and created a centre ground "one size fits all" political grouping indistinguishable from Tory or LibDem and exchanged principle for populist expediency. Thatcher created a nation where "there is no such thing as society", greed and selfishness are good, hypocrisy is an acceptable characteristic and where th...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/06/benefit-reforms-cameron-welfare-_n_3029737.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Benefit Reforms Are Putting 'Fairness Back At Heart Of Britain' Says Cameron Wrong Cameron. Benefit "reforms" are generating division, self interest and hatred in Britain. Ensuring that society is divided against itself on the question of welfare, is yet another tactic in the "divide and rule" philosophy employed by the Tory's since 1918 and even before. This time however, you have gone too far as more and more people recognise the pernicious cynicism of Tory intent. Rothermere of the Daily Mail and even News International may provide you, Osborne and the others with a platform to peddle your hypocritical ""We are putting fairness back at the heart of Britain" deception, but for many the mask of Tory rectitude has been removed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/05/pm-osborne-linking-philpott-welfare Cameron backs Osborne over comments linking Philpott case to welfare. . David Cameron has strongly endorsed controversial comments by George Osborne, in which the chancellor highlighted the killing of six children by Mick Philpott to raise questions about welfare payments The Tory leader now joins Osborne in the slime of the sewers along side the Daily Mail. The stench of government malevolence now emanating from Downing Street, contaminates British politics and ensures that the divisions between those who have and those who have not, will grow wider and more bitter. The polarisation of society is inevitable and irreversible as the Tories pursue their campaign of contempt and injustice.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/04/ed-balls-osborne-mick-philpott_n_3015920.html?1365098757&utm_hp_ref=uk THE CYNICAL ACT OF A DESPERATE CHANCELLOR Chancellor George Osborne Consider carefully what Osborne said. "....subsidising lifestyles like that". How will Osborne, or anyone else for that matter, differentiate between Philpott and his family from Derby, and the Smith family of the same size living in Warrington? Is there an assumption that any family with more than a specified number of children, are automatically scroungers living on welfare benefits? Osborne is on very thin ice when seeking to make political capital out of this case. It was not the "welfare state" that was responsible for this crime, nor was it the Philpott "family" collectively. It was Mick Philpott and two accomplices who carried out this appalling act. Specifically describing Philpott, Judge Mrs Justice Thirlwall commen...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/04/ed-balls-labour-benefits_n_2407214.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ed Balls Tells Jobseekers To Accept Work Or Lose Benefits Shadow chancellor Ed Balls What is my former party trying to achieve? It seems to me that they have completely lost the plot. This is an old "policy" rehashed by Balls and Co in an attempt to make it look like something else. It is not new, or original or something that my Labour party should touch with a barge pole. Once again, Labour are offering "free workers" to firms for 6 months in the vain hope that at the end of the 6 months, the company will suddenly produce a full time position within the firm, as if producing a rabbit from a hat. Everyone knows (except Balls and the Labour party policy makers it seems) that firms will simply terminate the "free worker" and ask for another one from the local employment office. The evidence of previous experience vividly demonstrates...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/were-powerless-to-get-truth-about-bankers-says-key-mp-7923528.html Politicians have been virtually "useless" at getting to the truth behind the banking scandal, one of the MP's responsible for investigating the affair has admitted. This is the real reason why Cameron and Co are insisting on a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Banking Scandal rather than a judge led independent inquiry. It is a not very subtle ploy to ensure that the witness are allowed to ramble on at length, saying nothing, being asked weak, inane questions and ensuring that no one is any the wiser at the end of their "evidence". The Parliamentary "Inquiry", will ensure that the banks and their crooked practices, together with those of their employees, and the subsequent conspiracy to cover up the whole rotten system are protected from the full glare of public exposure for as long as it takes to bury the matter under heaps o...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/05/balls-osborne Balls and Osborne clash. Why does the Guardian again fail to provide readers with the opportunity to comment on specific issues? This time its the article "Balls and Osborne slug it out in dispatch box "thrilla". Ironically, this item vividly demonstrates why an inquiry into the banking scandal cannot be carried out by politicians with their point scoring politically motivated private agenda's. Collectively, the banks appear to have been involved in criminal activities at the expense of their customers and British tax payers generally. It may well be that politicians were actively involved in these alleged crimes and therefore should not be part of any investigation. The only solution that would have an iota of credibility would be an independent public inquiry.