Agenda 2019

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/02/david-miliband-development-spending_n_5550533.html?ref=topbar David Miliband Praises David Cameron For 'Sticking To His Guns'      The brothers Miliband.   Milliband major and Miliband minor, both support Tory policies in many areas. The Labour party chose minor instead of major, but it doesn't really matter as either would have made little difference. When it comes to political choice in this country there is not much to choose between any of the parties. All offer essentially the same programme with only small variation at the margin.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/17/prime-ministers-questions_n_5167986.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Prime Minister's Questions Noise 'Puts Female MPs Off From Contributing', Speaker Says Commons Speaker John Bercow struggles to keep order Questions to the Prime Minister. The weekly excursion into the world of “Yaboo” politics where each side of the House of Commons can indulge themselves in mindless baying and snide remarks from one side, no doubt shouted in order to provoke reaction from the other side to draw the “referee” Mr. Speaker to intervene with “Order, Order” or a phrase that Mr Bercow has taken to using over recent years of “The honourable member should calm down”. Questions to the Prime Minister now demonstrates for around 30 minutes each Wednesday, everything that is wrong with British politics and why, generally, there is such disillusionment amongst many people in this country with the political structure. Scoring cheap politi...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/02/pmqs-david-cameron-ed-miliband-muppets_n_5075307.html?utm_hp_ref=uk PMQs: David Cameron Calls Ed Miliband And Ed Balls 'The Two Muppets'    Pathetic behaviour by so called "responsible adults" in the weekly pantomime of PMQ's. The kindergarten of the House of Commons, brings politics into disrepute and feeds contempt for "politicians" into the public perception of running the country. These predominately public school constructs on both sides of the Commons, have brought their childish antics directly from the "playing fields" into Westminster, and actually believe that they are really clever, "landing blows" on their opponents and making political capital with insults, jibes and patronising comment, all to a background of baying, ya booing and raucous laughter from the back benches. An appalling weekly spectacle, which becomes even more ghastly every week...

  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.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/11/bob-crow-dies-52-rmt-union-leader Bob Crow, RMT leader, dies of suspected heart attack at 52 Bob Crow, RMT general secretary   Robert "Bob" Crow (13 June 1961 – 11 March 2014)  A great loss to the trade union movement and to Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) in particular. Bob Crow retained the values and the historic principles of the Labour movement as true representatives of working people and their families in this country. Unlike the Labour Party which has, over the past decades,  drifted further and further to the right of the political spectrum, Crow would not abandon the traditional roots of the Labour movement  in pursuit of short term popularity and personal advancement.

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/27/unite-labour-possible-funding-cut  "Unite" to consider cut in affiliation fees. Len McCluskey  general secretary of Unite    The Labour Party was destroyed by Blair, Mandellson, Brown, Campbell and the other conspirators of "New Labour", many of whom still sit in the Commons today. Len McCluskey is stating what many trade unions are now accepting as fact, rather than the rhetoric of Miliband minor and the rest of the party "leadership" are trotting out in seeking to preserve their positions. It is time that the TUC and all affiliated organisation followed the lead of Unite and dumped the Labour party completely.

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/10/ed-miliband-tuc-speech-lukewarm-reception Ed Miliband's TUC speech receives lukewarm reception   Having watched the whole of Ed Miliband's televised speech to the TUC yesterday,(10th September 2013) and the subsequent session of planted questions, it was noticeable how restrained the delegates were in their responses to the Labour Party's leader. This is not particularly surprising when you consider that Miliband's offering was more froth than content and that the speech was full of cliche, feeble attempts at humour and patronising remarks about the "backbone of Britain",  "the vision of our founders"and "hearing from the people who are your members" and at the end of a twenty minute performance, a reference to his  " vision" of a one nation Britain .  A poor performance which offered little, other than a vague reference that a future Labour government would legi...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-unions-should-realise--this-isnt-an-attack-8805135.html     Donald Macintyre is off target when he suggests that "The unions should realise - this isn't an attack"   Donald Macintyre: Independant   Miliband seems to have forgotten, or is conveniently ignoring, what many other Labour party leaders since Clement Attlee, have also ignored. The relationship between the Labour Party and the TUC, and the wider Trade Union movement, is an historic one dating back to 1900. It should be a relationship where the Parliamentary Labour Party, (the MP's) should have as its primary objective the representation and well being of working people in this country. The same objective in fact as the TUC. In this context, “working people” is used in its wider definition, to include employed and unemployed, the disabled, the sick, benefit claimants in fact the whole spectrum of society. Over recen...

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/17/labour-policies-len-mcluskey Labour must shift policies or risk ruin, says Len McCluskey     Trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse is a very futile exercise. Len McCluskey, and the rest of the trade union movement, should recognise and accept, that the Labour Party, as the party of working people, is dead and that no amount of "reforms" or attempts at persuasion will repair damage done over the past decades and compounded over recent months by Milliband and the rump "Blairites".  Stuck in the morass of the so called centre ground, indistinguishable from either from Conservative or Liberal Democrat, Labour is destined to become a marginalised collection of tired politicians with few policies and little support. It is time for the trade union movement to move on and field its own candidates to give an alternative to the current, no real choice political menu.     ...

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-next-coalition-why-ed-miliband-needs-to-get-nick-cleggs-number-8621776.html Peter Hain say that Labour must start making overtures to the Lib Dems   Peter Hain with Ed Milliband.    Peter Hain off on another "frolic of his own". The Labour Party getting into bed with Clegg, (or any Leader for the time being of the LibDems), who has prostituted every principle, commitment or pledge that he or his party may once have had, is a concept too odious to contemplate. The LibDems are have lost all credibility and support, apart from a rump of Liberals and are probably doomed to political oblivion at the next election. For Hain to even consider some form of coalition suggests that he has lost the plot. Should Milliband be persuaded that a coalition or even some form of loose arrangement could be created, then he runs a considerable risk of alienating even more of the traditional Labour vote.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/27/david-milibands-resignation-tories-_n_2961783.html?utm_hp_ref=uk David Miliband's Resignation Signals Labour 'Lurch To The Left', Claim Tories The Milliband brothers.   Conservative MPs have seized on David Miliband's decision to quit parliament as evidence the Labour Party is "lurching to the left" under the leadership of his brother. (Huffington Post 28th March 2013) Tory bigots doing what Tory bigots always do when seeking to divert attention away from their own incompetence and ineptitude. The "reds under the bed" cliches have been around for decades and are as shallow now as they have always been. Moreover they are fallacious and puerile in suggesting that Labour has "lurched to the left". If that were the case, the party membership would have increased by thousands overnight as all those disillusioned activists who have left the Labour party in droves since 1990 and ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/18/leveson-david-cameron-press-regulation_n_2901113.html?utm_hp_ref=uk David Cameron Tells Tory MPs He 'Called Ed Miliband's Bluff' On Leveson. Prime Minister Cameron. No matter how you view it, self regulation is self regulation which has proved to be at best ineffective in the majority of instances where such regulatory bodies operate. A Royal Charter to back up press regulation, or press regulation with statutory underpinning may seem diametrically opposed positions, but in the bizarre world of Westminster political intrigue, both options are in fact the same thing. Of course, there are those who may believe that a solution such as this, is no more than a fudged up compromise by two, or is it three, protagonists who have "bottled it". That may however be a bit cynical. Cameron, Clegg and Milliband. On television last night, on numerous channels, first Cameron then Clegg and finally Milliband appeared and...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/29/david-cameron_n_2211388.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics  Cameron and  Clegg Split Over Legal Underpinning Of Press Regulation Lord Justice Leveson unveils his report   Cameron's "statement" in the House of commons yesterday (29th November 2012) in response to the Leveson report, was pathetic as were his "answers" to subsequent questions. It was not only Milliband who was shaking his head in stunned disbelief. The cracks and splits in the coalition were abundantly clear as soon as the deputy prime Minister began to speak in his own unprecedented response to the report. Clegg's statement was diametrically opposite to that of the prime Minister in the fundamental area of legal under pinning of press regulation. Another area where the Conservatives and the Liberal democrats are uneasy bedfellows. It is not surprising that Clegg and his LibDems are crumbling away from this disastrous rag bag coali...