Labour Party Conference 2014

[North Banker]

Politics aside, this is one of the (only) highlights of the conference. Ed Miliband can't deliver a speech, but this man can. Sir, I salute you.

http://news.sky.com/story/1341399/mps-sob-at-keep-your-mitts-off-my-nhs-speech

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

So are you saying his memory isn't very good?

I was making a little joke that I thought you'd enjoy - I just want you to be happy x

 

[callan]

This a a complete non-issue.

Ed Balls covered PLP economic policy fully, in his brief as Shadow Chancellor, on Monday.

Nonsense....he forgot....,how can someone who wants to be prime minister forget something as important as this....he's a liability.

 

[callan]

I was making a little joke that I thought you'd enjoy - I just want you to be happy x

Thanks mate.....lovely humour.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Nonsense....he forgot....,how can someone who wants to be prime minister forget something as important as this....he's a liability.

Liability 1) Ed Miliband - tries to make a speech without auto cue and misses out a good few minutes so it clocks in at just under an hour but manages to pledge tens of thousands of extra staff for the NHS

Liabilty 2) Dave Cameron - uses auto cue so manages to deliver all of the words he intends to but is head of a government who have had to be taken to court to stop them closing NHS A&E units.

in example 1 Ed would be advised to at least take cue cards with him to make sure he has covered all that he intended to.
in example 2 Dave must remember not to close down A&E units or people die.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Did anyone see the interview with Nick Robinson? absolute laughable. Who in their right mind is going to vote in Ken McCluskey's puppet? Taking the Labour party back to the stone age which is fine by me.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Did anyone see the interview with Nick Robinson? absolute laughable. Who in their right mind is going to vote in Ken McCluskey's puppet? Taking the Labour party back to the stone age which is fine by me.

Wiki:
Robinson was interested in politics from a young age, and went on to study a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics degree at Oxford University, where he was also President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Starting out in broadcasting at Piccadilly Radio, after a year as President of the Conservative Party youth group, blah blah

I always find it difficult to watch him without questioning his impartiality.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Wiki:
Robinson was interested in politics from a young age, and went on to study a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics degree at Oxford University, where he was also President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Starting out in broadcasting at Piccadilly Radio, after a year as President of the Conservative Party youth group, blah blah

I always find it difficult to watch him without questioning his impartiality.

I can't stand the bloke but out of interest where do you go to find impartial opinion?

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

On Channel 4 news the senior Snow ripped Ed Miliped asunder.
Ed didn't have a single answer to budgeting and finance and it SHOWED so much it was painful to watch.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Wiki:
Robinson was interested in politics from a young age, and went on to study a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics degree at Oxford University, where he was also President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. Starting out in broadcasting at Piccadilly Radio, after a year as President of the Conservative Party youth group, blah blah

I always find it difficult to watch him without questioning his impartiality.

So a nodding dog would have been a better interviewer yes?
Believe it or not there are people whose political leanings are different to yourself. Some of them god forbid work in the media.
Hand on heart time, do you honestly think Labour are going to win with Ed Miliband? of course they will win again but with him at the helm?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

So a nodding dog would have been a better interviewer yes?
Believe it or not there are people whose political leanings are different to yourself. Some of them god forbid work in the media.
Hand on heart time, do you honestly think Labour are going to win with Ed Miliband? of course they will win again but with him at the helm?

I think you are deliberately missing the point - the BBC's main political reporter should be impartial, with Robinson's background that looks shaky.

Labour winning with Ed - I hope so, most likely outcome is a Lab-Lib coalition. Name a current politician you would like to see as the next PM?

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

I think you are deliberately missing the point - the BBC's main political reporter should be impartial, with Robinson's background that looks shaky.

Labour winning with Ed - I hope so, most likely outcome is a Lab-Lib coalition. Name a current politician you would like to see as the next PM?

I am not deliberately missing anything thank you. Robinson is the Political editor for the BBC. Who would you like to interview the leader of the opposition? I have never seen or heard cries of foul regarding Robinson's bias "tory" views but will certainly keep an eye out.
Cameron will be the next PM with a minority government.
Who would I like to see ? Me

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I am not deliberately missing anything thank you. Robinson is the Political editor for the BBC. Who would you like to interview the leader of the opposition? I have never seen or heard cries of foul regarding Robinson's bias "tory" views but will certainly keep an eye out.
Cameron will be the next PM with a minority government.
Who would I like to see ? Me

I would like the BBC political editor to not have held prominent positions in the young Conservatives as it makes me view his style differently to if I didn't know that. His smarmy Devil's advocate style doesn't draw me I either - all makes him difficult to watch.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Politics aside, this is one of the (only) highlights of the conference. Ed Miliband can't deliver a speech, but this man can. Sir, I salute you.

http://news.sky.com/story/1341399/mps-sob-at-keep-your-mitts-off-my-nhs-speech

Can't green you for this unfortunately (and I wish I could).Certainly the best thing I saw at conference.:thumbsup:

 

[Benfleet A1]

I personally thought it was the most choreographed speech of the conference.

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

Can anyone seriously imagine Balls and Milibland in charge of our great country? The fact that Red Ed 'forgot' to mention the deficit or immigration, arguably the two biggest domestic issues, sums up his sheer incompetence. All they come up with is soundbites and vague promises which, when probed, they can't spell out. He's a Marxist who hates his own country.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Can anyone seriously imagine Balls and Milibland in charge of our great country? The fact that Red Ed 'forgot' to mention the deficit or immigration, arguably the two biggest domestic issues, sums up his sheer incompetence. All they come up with is soundbites and vague promises which, when probed, they can't spell out. He's a Marxist who hates his own country.

The fact that Labour are ahead in the polls would indicate that at the moment more people can imagine Ed and Ed running the country than any of the other parties.
The fact that you state that he hates his own country renders your opinion pretty irrelevant.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

The fact that Labour are ahead in the polls would indicate that at the moment more people can imagine Ed and Ed running the country than any of the other parties.
The fact that you state that he hates his own country renders your opinion pretty irrelevant.

A lot will change their minds come elction time. I have great faith that most people at the end of the day are not complete idiots. By the way, I don't care if Robinson is a card carrying communist as long as he asks difficult questions and makes politicians look complete arses because they cannot answer straightforward questions.
If you want to be taxed to the hilt for crap "public services" then that is your prerogative.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

A lot will change their minds come elction time. I have great faith that most people at the end of the day are not complete idiots. By the way, I don't care if Robinson is a card carrying communist as long as he asks difficult questions and makes politicians look complete arses because they cannot answer straightforward questions.
If you want to be taxed to the hilt for crap "public services" then that is your prerogative.

Cost of living at the moment is so sky high that a bit of tax to make public services not crap would barely be noticed.

The level if debate on this thread is pretty low (myself included) and is just those of us with differing opinions spouting those without anything new to add so I think I'll give it a rest now as there has been an effort elsewhere to make postings less dull.

 

[Benfleet A1]

The fact that Labour are ahead in the polls would indicate that at the moment more people can imagine Ed and Ed running the country than any of the other parties.
The fact that you state that he hates his own country renders your opinion pretty irrelevant.

Labour are, at best four points ahead in the polls which is pathetic with a little over 8 months to go to a General Election. They haven't improved their rating after conference and it's generally considered that Milliband's performance was useless and had less bite than a toothless turtle. And that's coming from his own backbenchers.

Here's what I have found.

http://www.comres.co.uk/poll/1269/itv-news-index-labour-conference.htm

http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/nq311y09j7/YG-Archives-Pol-Trackers-Leaders-Perceptions-240914.pdf

http://www.ukpolitical.info/General_election_polls.htm

Not exactly setting the world on fire.