Labour's priorities seem so wrong
THE pound plunged in value again this week as news was released about a fall in UK factory output, adding to the concern that our balance of trade has lurched wildly into the red and our current level of government borrowing is worse than that of any other comparable country.
Yet the only thing Labour's letter-writing panel wants to talk about is Lord Ashcroft and fox hunting. I can well understand why they are too ashamed to join the debate on the economy, but their priorities must seem strange indeed to ordinary voters.
They also presumably want to divert attention away from the fact that an array of distinguished former military leaders, past permanent defence secretaries and even a former Labour cabinet minister have contradicted Gordon Brown's carefully scripted evidence to the Chilcott Inquiry — and again on Wednesday at Prime Minister's Questions — on his record of equipping our forces to fight the Afghan war.
Surely we can't go on putting up with this cheap and nasty spin?
Cllr Jeff Coates
Conservative city councillor for Cowick, Exeter
3 Comments
by Will, Mid Devon
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 10:50AM
“A plague on both their houses!
Tories deregulated industry and destroyed our manufacturing base, made us reliant on the financial sector so that when this collapsed it left us all in the sh... you know what. Sold off all our assets to be bought up by foreign companies and rich (Tory-voting) British investors. Perverted our education system to advantage academic types with nothing for the rest (elite, trickle-down theory etc). And New Labour have done nothing to change all that.
Let's have a hung parliament - there are quite few individuals there that I'd like to see strung up by their sensitive parts!
Go on, vote Lib Dem - you know you want to really.”
by Ed, Exeter
Monday, March 15 2010, 6:38PM
“Better a chameleon, than Labour politicians who have, for the last 13 years, spoken with a snake-like forked tongue. Just ask their own party MP Frank Field. He spoke the truth (as requested b Tony Blair), and when he did, he was sacked. This was an act typical of the New Labour commissars that we have had to endure. But, in 70 or so days, that will be all over.”
by Paul, Alphington
Monday, March 15 2010, 2:46PM
“Tory Councillor Coates should look at his own letter and note that he has not written a single cogent Conservative policy which is not surprising as there are no real policies only gesture politics orchestrated by the ex-PR executive David Cameron who at that time was described as a "poisonous, slippery individual".
Has the chameleon changed? I think not”