Sorry really does seem to be the hardest word for Labour!
Ed Balls is now saying that Labour supports a pay freeze for Public Sector workers and won't seek to reverse expenditure cuts.
On Public Sector pay he said:
And on the expenditures cuts he said:
There was some additional waffle and some luke-warm support for the other Ed but nowhere does he say Labour was again wrong on the economic issues - nowhere. I have scoured the leftist blogs (its okay I was wearing disposable gloves so I don't think anything rubbed-off) - but nowhere do I see the S word.
As I said earlier, Labour can apologise for the 1848 Irish potato famine, they can apologise for the UK's role in the slave trade but economic failure, failure to adequately regulate the banking sector - nothing to say sorry for, according to their leftist vision.
Ed Balls was at the very heart of the incompetency that was Labour's economic 'policy'. Not on the periphery, he was an economics advisor to Gordon Brown (sorry for using such bad language) and then he became a government minster, all the while, being one of Gordon's inner cabal.
Labour supporters must be in a whirl - how can the cuts be wrong one minute (per the 2 Eds) and suddenly ok the next. Same for the pay freeze. Flip-Flopping in Westminster used to be confined to MPs and their second homes but now Ed Balls has brought this into a core area of Labour policy.
Can I expect them to support my campaign to get Grantham to properly recognize Margaret Thatcher?
Ed Balls is now saying that Labour supports a pay freeze for Public Sector workers and won't seek to reverse expenditure cuts.
On Public Sector pay he said:
It is now inevitable that public sector pay restraint will have to continue through this parliament. Labour cannot duck that reality and won't. There is no way we should be arguing for higher pay when the choice is between higher pay and bringing unemployment down.
I know there will be some people in the trade union movement and the Labour party who will think of course Labour has got to oppose that pay restraint in 2014 and 2015. That is something we cannot do, should not do and will not do.
And on the expenditures cuts he said:
My starting point is, I am afraid, we are going to have keep all these cuts. There is a big squeeze happening on budgets across the piece. The squeeze on defence spending, for instance, is £15bn by 2015. We are going to have to start from that being the baseline. At this stage, we can make no commitments to reverse any of that, on spending or on tax. So I am being absolutely clear about that.
There was some additional waffle and some luke-warm support for the other Ed but nowhere does he say Labour was again wrong on the economic issues - nowhere. I have scoured the leftist blogs (its okay I was wearing disposable gloves so I don't think anything rubbed-off) - but nowhere do I see the S word.
As I said earlier, Labour can apologise for the 1848 Irish potato famine, they can apologise for the UK's role in the slave trade but economic failure, failure to adequately regulate the banking sector - nothing to say sorry for, according to their leftist vision.
Ed Balls was at the very heart of the incompetency that was Labour's economic 'policy'. Not on the periphery, he was an economics advisor to Gordon Brown (sorry for using such bad language) and then he became a government minster, all the while, being one of Gordon's inner cabal.
Labour supporters must be in a whirl - how can the cuts be wrong one minute (per the 2 Eds) and suddenly ok the next. Same for the pay freeze. Flip-Flopping in Westminster used to be confined to MPs and their second homes but now Ed Balls has brought this into a core area of Labour policy.
Can I expect them to support my campaign to get Grantham to properly recognize Margaret Thatcher?
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