howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sadly Philip is right the blues cannot win this election(they haven't won in 23 years) but the reds can lose it. Clueless Ed and his cabal are incapable of understanding ordinary people and talk to them without ever listening. The promotion of Lord Prescott says it all, Ed has decided that he needed a bluff working class geezer in the front line to win over voters teetering towards UKIP not realising that Prescott lost that tag back in 1997 and is seen as a wealthy free loader nowadays. Making climate change an election issue shows how out of touch the red hierarchy are.
If Alan Johnson had agreed to be dragged back into the firing line then the reds would have coasted into power without even needing another party to form a coalition.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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True, Howard. The modern day labour party needs to apply for an arts council grant. It's not a political party anymore but represents unreconstructed agitprop akin to the 1980s. Climate change heading it's most urgent issue to tackle, followed closely by ensuring that the fox hunting ban stays. Apart from that they churn out the policies of a sixth form common room and always end up on the back foot - years away from what is happening in the real world.
Talk to any labour candidate and listen to them ape the twitter feed from labour HQ. All nonsense and every single policy they put forward veers towards the surreal.
Having said that the tories are no better having signed a tripartite pact with labour and the liberals making climate change the most important issue in the world ahead of the Russia crisis and even ISIS.
Which leave me and millions of others in the position where they will not bother to vote at all which is, let's face it, the safest option.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Climate change is an election issue for champagne-socialist Guardianista academics.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Novel campaigning in Deal today.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Singing for his supper.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Desperation.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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As the campaign hots up the Reds were out in St Radigunds and Buckland yesterday, today in Middle Deal.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,658
I saw some of the Labour lot together with Claire (I think) scurrying along my road the other day, I assume they were posting leaflets but as they bypassed my house completely who knows.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Justine Miliband in town with Clair to rally the troops
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCfgUWNW8AAmG7I.jpghoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Team Clair in town this morning looking very upbeat, UKIP also had a stall outside the Town Council offices.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Big Issue Sir? Have a nice day.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Many of the Labour election offers seem to be trying to make people more State-dependant; Many of the Conservative offers are more about giving people a chance to step up and make a better life.
Whilst I do appreciate that there are a lot of people who really do need support and help - and they should continue to get that help and support, it must still the case that that being dependant on the State will keep people down.
Roger
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Clair needs to leave Prosser behind he does her image no good, much like Ed putting Blair on a soap box, bad idea
Arte et Marte
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I am on the head office mailing list for both the main parties. I've noticed that until the campaign started in earnest, most of Labour's emails were about policy, particularly the NHS. Now they're mostly begging for money.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I'm on all the mailing lists, UKIP are the most demanding of all of them for dosh although I believe they have cut their standard membership from £30 to £15.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The new in statement of the labour party for the election.
We will ensure unscrupulous employers pay the minimum wage!
The Labour policies of mass migration have ensured workers wages have been forced down to the minimum wage.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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My understanding was that they were planning to clamp down on employers using overseas agencies who paid people the minimum wage of the country the workers came from.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that's the way I saw it to howard.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Amongst other things today Clair visited the Aylesham Heritage Centre for their May day event.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Here in Eythorne the tally of party propaganda mailing/deliveries to date is as follows: Tories 3, Labour 1, UKIP 0, Lib Dem 0, Greens 0.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson