Amused but not surprised to hear Union Baron, Len McCluskey, saying that John Pienaar gave the perfect analysis of Miliband’s speech.
Probably because Pienaar found nothing of value to say about it in any critical or meaningful way.
Here’s some questions the BBC could and should ask but don’t:
Will Ed Balls have to rewrite future speeches about public sector business genius giving us the Olympics….in light of rail failures, NHS computers, MOD procurement, PFI, Labour forgetting to add VAT to the Olympic bill……I’m sure there’s lots more….and do they still support the privatisation of Royal Mail…done at the instigation of ‘predator’ capitalist mail companies in Europe?
The BBC gave a lot of air time to Labour’s claims for Public Sector efficiency after the Olympics…wouldn’t an intelligent BBC be onto them about this latest evidence of PS hopelessness?
Richard Branson said that rail should not be privatised….’If they can’t run a process they can’t run a railway.’
Miliband’s speech…honed and practised for the weeks he disappeared from our screens and papers? Will he run government like that, disappearing off every time he has a big decision to give him time to think?
BBC Pienaar said the speech was a ‘feat of memory’…..shame Miliband can’t remember what Labour did with the economy for 13 years.
Miliband can’t even remember what the question was.
7:06 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtiuuSsP3no
Keep spreading the word – the millibands are the spawn of marxists. They came to this country (why not their mecca, the soviet union is anyone’s guess) and then proceeded to undermine the very people who gave them succour. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. What is it about our people that they willingly vote for people who have been shown to follow an ideology that seeks to destroy them. In the words of Enoch Powell “we must be mad..”
Why don’t the conservatives make more of the fact that Red Ed was pickled in Marxism since birth. Just keep telling the story. Even the truth could become fact if told often enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329564/Ed-Miliband-names-baby-grandfather–Red-Army-Sam.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-miliband-tributes-historian?newsfeed=true
“Richard Branson said that rail should not be privatised….’If they can’t run a process they can’t run a railway.’”
Surely that’s the reason for not re-nationalising them. That’s an awful thought, going back to British Railways. Oh well one thing, at least there was always good mileage for jokes about its inefficiency, bureaucracy and sandwiches.
I think that he said they should not be re-nationalised. And he’s right.
I quoted the above, but if that’s what he said I agree with him for a change, and with you. In fact that was the point I was making above.
What also came out clearly from Branson and the bloke from the Institute of Directors (I think it was) was that the quality of both the procurement process and the civil servants in charge of it are abysmal and have been for some time (Branson pointed out it was always the same under Labour, and that at least this government are doing something about it), a situation that would not have been tolerated for one second in the private sector.
But then earlier in the day we had Gus O’ Donnell being interviewed about it, conveniently providing the BBC news soundbites along the lines of how the government are wrong to criticise the civil servants (did they, explicitly?) when they are suffering cutbacks and pay freezes (but not payscale increments and bonuses, of course) and in fact should be giving them support and encouragement blah blah blah. Regurgitated on the news on the hour throughout the day, of course.
Bias, what bias?
And Jimmy Savile seemed to like them too-does that help?
Funny that – I just saw a tall stupid looking bloke wondering about stage for an hour and saying ‘One Naythun’ every 90 seconds while shaking an invisible vase up and down.
Leastwise that’s what I would have seen, if I’d watched it, which I didn’t.
When Milliband says one nation, he is thinking Communism.
In his interview with Martha Kearney on The World at One yesterday Miliband said there was no reason to apologise for Labour’s economic record as the debt and deficit they inherited in 1997 was bigger than that they left the country with in 2010.
It will be interesting to see if this outright lie becomes one of Labour’s infamous mantras and whether the BBC continues to let them get away with it (as Kearney did yesterday – though I’ll give her credit for giving Miliband a harder time than is the norm for Labour politicians on the BBC).
That’s unbelievable! I’m sure Martha Kearney of the BBC stopped him at that point and told him he was delusional if he really believed that.
Now I realise that it must be me being delusional for thinking anyone at the BBC will correct any such amazing lies coming from the Labour Party.
Heard Serwotka on Any Questions.
At least he`s the template for old unreconstituted Marxism, which I recognise and can respect-I used to be like that too!
The more we hear of Mark, the less that Labour will smarm their way back to finish off the country.
And I`ll say it again-I`d rather have one Mark Serwotka and his class warfare, than a thousand fakes like Harman , Hain and Falconer!