A failure of memory
Posted on
March 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last Friday:
What the promise was, when Miliband ran for Labour leadership in 2010:
Ed’s idea of keeping a promise to abolish tuition fees:
Oh.
When Ed Miliband was elected Labour leader in September 2010, tuition fees were still a maximum of £3375 a year. (The vote to increase them to a maximum of £9000 wasn’t passed until December of that year.) So Miliband is keeping his promise to “abolish” fees of £3375 by, um, making them £6000.
It’s a bit like when Labour came to power in 1997, when tuition fees in Scotland were £0, and just three years later had “abolished” them to £2000. We’re starting to see where Kezia Dugdale gets it from.
shake head
Even if he delivered *snorts* a graduate tax is a lousy idea.
Must say that red text on pink/purple/mauve/cerise background was brave.
I remember during the Indyref and Kez had to debate with Nicola Sturgeon. She got absolutely smashed. I don’t think she should be allowed to talk unless the leadership says so. Saying that, when your leader is just as inept as you…
The dream team of Odd Milipede and Keechier Dugdirt are a gift that keeps on giving…
Good Old Labour!
You know exactly when they are lying to you-
their lips are moving.
I really fear that some sort of party rule prevents them from being honest or delivering anything that helps support ordinary people.
Roll on Judgement day -7th May
Labour says it will fund this cut to English tuition fees by taxing better off pensioners. Did he mean ONLY English pensioners, as education is devolved, or does that mean that Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland pensioners will be subsidising English education?
…listen, I can hear that music from the twilight zone again!
link to bing.com
I wonder if he still aims to proceed with a graduate tax? We need answers.
So true Rev
If you look at each one of those statements made in the 2010 announcement, Labour has instead voted to support all the things he said he would do something about.
And they wonder why no one will believe them as they spout promises now?
Been there, done that, not gonna get caught again say the hordes of ex-Labour voters now supporting other parties. (By Labour I mean all those both north & south of the border)
Ed might as well just say with a wink and a grin, “If we don’t get you one way, we will, with another!” Suckers!
I notice he didn’t do too well with The Royal Mail either.
Can anyone seriously imagine this clot or Dippity Dugdale, sitting round a negotiating table with some foreign leaders discussing delicate sensitive issues.For the life of me I cant picture it at all.
Face and Palm brought into contact at high velocity!
Comedy gold coming this week end to Edinburgh.
link to scottishlabour.org.uk
Will any of the two Eds make an appearance to rally the troops or will Murphy and Keiza have the place to themselves OR will Gordon barge onto the stage to… ach!
Who is really running the labour party and what do they stand for?
Labour’s
Edward Miliband, not surprising you can use some of the letters of his name to say ME LIAR, his new name should be “ED ME LIAR band”
1’ll get my coat
Graduates earn more on average over their working lives, because their qualifications grant them access to higher paid jobs. That means they pay more tax than non-graduates.
In addition to fee-free tuition, we could probably bring back student grants for living costs and still cover the cost in full from the extra taxes graduates already pay.
The government would still make a profit on the deal, because those graduates tend to be working for companies in higher value industries that contribute more to the economy. A larger economy means more VAT income and a larger corporate tax take.
That’s the second time today I’ve blown coffee through my nose.
Car crash.
Seriously, I think Labour should simply avoid tweeting, its getting silly now.
I’m confused.
I suppose that’s what they wanted all along.
This is why it is vital that the SNP return as many MP’s to Westminster as possible.
Because whatever bullshit Labour come away with before the election, a strong SNP can hold them to account. Which will benefit not only Scotland, but also England.
This is one of the main reasons why the Labour Party don’t want a strong SNP victory, they know the SNP will make them deliver.
Comedy Gold indeed:
We are a democratic socialist and a patriotic party
• We will represent Scotland first, while not giving up solidarity with people across the UK
• Policy will be made in Scotland for Scotland, putting the needs of Scotland first
• We are committed to a permanent, powerful Scottish Parliament
• We will renew our historic mission for a more equal and fairer society where power, wealth and opportunity are shared.
caz-m says:
“they know the SNP will make them deliver.”
And</I) show them up for the red tories that they now are.
FMQs real comedy gold.
Earlier today.
Keiza tries hard but ‘no cigar’ on woman’s opportunities at colleges and at work.
Pity the figures don’t support her views. She is light weight and will be gone soon, roll on the Scottish elections in 2016.
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link to bbc.co.uk
“Piling debt on the public purse” – do they think we are so dumb that we belive he’ll magic away the extra £3000. It will still go on public debt, only more so.
That’s the thing aboot tellin porkies. Ye hiv tae hiv a guid memory.
Serious fail there Ed.
@call me dave 2:24pm
Not convinced the useless ones (sorry that should read “the really, terribly, useless ones”) will go. They will aim for troughers’ paradise by sitting on the list rather than having the courage to be nominated for a specific seat.
They’re are not even worthy of the title “bawbags” – at least they have a purpose.
FMQs very rowdy today – who’s even more worried now?
I know it’s stretching credulity – but when oor Willie appears to ask ‘reasonable’ questions in comparison with the other unionist ‘opposition’ – it’s only a surprise that yesterdays polls were not even more striking.
Mr E Miliband is apparently due to speak in Glasgow on Saturday – that should go well as he differs from his accounting unit led by Mr 1% in so many aspects (see above, before and, no doubt, after, as our media unlikely to highlight conflicting policies)- his taxi driver has been requested to keep the engine running.
Miss Sturgeon, at FMQs, composed, polished, informed and batted away silly questions with withering alacrity – again.
From the advertising on Tay2 by , I presume UK Gov, we are about to receive a Scotland’s Changing booklet through our letter boxes this month saying that Smith has delivered everything promised.
They are all in it together in spreading falsehoods.
O/T has anyone here heard the radio ad for the latest Westminster propaganda about how wonderful the Smith Commission outcome will be?
I was listening to Classic FM about 8am this morning and heard a Scottish male voice telling me how much I will benefit from the positive changes to my Scottish Government’s new powers (which we still haven’t got, nor will we ever receive unless we get a large cohort of SNP MPs down there).
The voice also advised me that I should look out for an explanatory booklet coming through my door in the next couple of weeks.
Regrettably, it’s outside the 6 week election moratorium period (just) but it will need a robust, and pretty much immediate, response from SNP if it isn’t to sway a few of the more gullible in our communities. I hope that SNP HQ are gearing up to start dismantling the shoogly scaffold of half-truths that is about to be rapidly assembled before the election.
I would hazard a guess
that a failure of memory in a politician
is in inverse proportion
to the number of lies he has uttered.
The more lies – the less memory.
But there is another dimension
which is, the very culture of lying,
whereby lying is a policy decision.
At this level, there is no requirement for memory,
because new lies will be uttered in any case.
It is at this point, as is the case at present in the UK,
that any distinction between truth and lies
becomes completely blurred.
I would suggest that this ‘blurring’ –
making it impossible for the population
to work out who is being truthful
and who is lying –
is a deliberate objective
of the propaganda arm of this UK Government.
It is this ‘no difference’ aspect
between one politician and the next,
that causes the biggest problem for the electorate.
This confusion is the result of deliberate
political engineering, which has only one purpose –
to so confuse the electorate
they become just like sheep.
This is valuable to a Government
which has access to sheepdogs.
Enter John McTernan and Co.
@cynicalHighlander … snap
I didn’t pay anything to see our First Minister in the Hydro or anywhere else, i even spoke to Nicola Sturgeon in the street along with her husband Peter Murrell and not a penny changed hands
Scotlands National Party will talk to people without charge
Do think our team has nothing to hide by being open to any question from anybody
Supporters of Unionist Party’s think on, you guys have to pay for misdirection and lies
The SNP tell the truth for nothing
All the more reason to keep Labour out of Government at UK and Scottish levels, if you support free higher education. No doubts at all that fees are part of Labour’s higher education strategy.
That’s the problem, they can say, promise and ‘Vow’ whatever crap they like, they know most people will forget it within half a minute.
Seriously, we will be failing in our duties if we don’t give these people their jotters in May.
Lord Ashcroft better be right about our voting intentions!
Miliband might still be PM, though. What that might mean for English students, who knows. Labour don’t seem to.
Smoke and mirrors! This is an art form with Labour. You deliver a seemingly positive message to the public. But the truth is that you are actually offering nothing, and in some cases taking more away.
To the untrained eye it appears a generous offer for English & Welsh students. I feel sorry for the people down there a they are being treated like daft children.
Aye right. Unionists Parties can never be trusted. Illegal wars, banking fraud, tax evasion. Elected to protect NHS/Education they cut funding of both. Sanctioning the most vulnerable, leaving people to starve. Despicable. Destroying the Oil sector. Illegal Westminster VOW’s. Westminster secrecy and lies. Every word they utter is a lie. SNP, SNP, SNP.
Heedless chickens comes to mind. Aw they need now is a big new bomb costing £100 billion and a big shiny red button To press. (A that fills me with confidence)
You couldn’t make it up. They really are coo coo. All we need to see now is how many other coo coos think it’s a good idea, voting for SLAB.
Labour/Unionists mean-tested Student loans. It meant many of the most able, talented students of households of average earnings, could not go to University without parental support.
Sorry to go O/T
But did you all hear today that the Bank of England is being investigated for fraud?
It was on early morning BBC Scotland, don’t know if widely reported. Riddled eh!
Labour’s strategy seems clear now. Do something, then lie and say they didn’t do it. With this strategy they can only hope to hang on to Labour voters who simply don’t care about the reality and just want to be told that their vote is somehow for a socialist cause. It won’t win any former Labour voters back.
Meanwhile, as the Guardian showed recently, as many English Conservatives are now moving over to Labour as there are Scottish voters deserting Labour for the SNP.
So Labour vote with the Tories for £30bn more austerity cuts, then lie and say they are against austerity.
They introduce tuition fees, then lie and say that they abolished them.
Imagine the did this over something like a war?
Oh, wait. They did that, didn’t they? Weapons of mass destruction that could rain down on us in 45 minutes.
How many people are now dead because of that lie?
Can we crowdfund one of those big balloons for George Foulkes?
Up Calton Hill, a bottle of decent malt and a packet of Hobnobs to tempt him in, then cut the cords – cheerio!
Fifth Dimension, ‘Up, Up and Away’ –
link to youtube.com
He also states on that he would protect the Royal Mail and stop the break up of the NHS, oh how times have changed
There was a Redcoat on radio Tay this morning telling me how lucky I am to be British and have a passport and shit.Weird.I’m not British.I’m Scottish.
Would very much like to thank EBC news for the party political advert on behalf of MAGRIT CURRENT at Toll Cross this afternoon. No mention or pictures of any other candidates contesting GLASGOW EAST.
EBC TOTALLY DISGUSTING BIASED TOTALLY UNFIT FOR PURPOSE. unless of course it’s just a anti scottish propaganda unit for the ESTABLISHMENT then it is superb.
SCOTTISH BROADCASTING SERVICE required controlled in SCOTLAND by SCOTS for SCOTS.
After all we pay for it, why is LONDON allowed to pocket our money and dish up the anti SCOTTISH propaganda it does.
Aye Les it’s in the news:
link to bbc.co.uk
link to lordashcroftpolls.com
By Lord Ashcroft
“Below is the text of the polling presentation I gave in London this evening, including my latest national poll findings and new results from marginal seats in England and Scotland. Scroll down to find the presentation slides, marginals report, and full data tables.”
Well worth a read.
Redcoats…I like your style Mealer! Think that will be my new nickname for Britscots!
“…a bottle of decent malt…”
Bit of a waste, don’t think he’d appreciate it.
Maybe drink it first and replace with cold weak tea (or something) 😉
Heard in the Aye Pod yesterday that Labour inherited a surplus in Fife when they took over in 2012, they are now in debt. So when you read the twitterings of Labour remember they are utterly incompetent. Seem to be full of ex students who have never done a day’s work in their lives.
@Ian –
a bottle of decent malt and a packet of Hobnobs
Nah Ian, a gin soaked cloot and a packet of scampi fries 🙂
O/t
A small victory
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sorry Rev I put this on the wrong thread by mistake.
NEWSFLASH!
Decapitated chicken’s head found – chicken appears unaffected.
Ian Brotherhood says:
5 March, 2015 at 4:04 pm
Not the first time I have seen “Big Balloon” & “George Foulkes” in the same post…but yours is different.
@John King
Looks like you have uncovered a good route to inflict pain on the labour party.
I shall follow up myself, and would urge other Wingers to follow suite. The more time they are tied up having to deal with these requests the less time they have to campaign.
Nice one.
There you go folks-I said that Information Commissioner was pretty good.
It has carried out raids on premises in Manchester against spammers.
Also the company operating the construction industry blacklist on behalf of construction companies & supported by unions feeding info to the blacklist. All denied the blacklist existed till that raid. After it they couldn’t as the raid gathered documentary evidence.
The ultimate irony would be if Jim Murphy has the brass neck to claim Labour would abolish tuition fees, given his particular historical contribution to that policy.
@ JOhn King 4.37. John I read your post with intrest, did you happen to ask if any information was pasted on by the Better Together site.
@ John King.
Wish I had thought of that when I got e-mails’ from Labour. I have no idea how they got my e-mail address and if I had thought of it I would have done the same thing
these constant labour lies, supported by msm especialy DR, are the reason the crowdfunder is now approaching £93,000. Just made a small donation, wish it could be more but hopefully those of you who are earning will be able to finish the job and get the total over the Ton. Maybe that will still the malicious pens at the record for a while.
o/t
Now here’s a thing
link to ico.org.uk
no surprises there then,
bird of a feather eh?
Chic McGregor @ 5.48 pm
Prepare to get your tin of Brasso out.
Jim Murphy has in the past week said he would not introduce tuition fees in Scotland. This seems to fly in the face of everything that he has said on the subject in the past and all the criticism of the Scottish Government’s policy in recent weeks eg no tuition fees benefit the better off etc etc.
Here is another idea for Foulkes,
Everyone shouting FOULK OFF.
Simples!
Gary
@call me dave says: 5 March, 2015 at 1:34 pm:
” … Who is really running the labour party and what do they stand for?”
Well, call me dave, you might have guessed there was something a bit wrong when they said they would stand as a candidates for a seat in a constituency and then proceed to sit in the House of Commons. Right from the start they are confused.
@Legerwood
Staggering. He was instrumental in eventually forcing through acceptance of tuition fees and dropping the grant by the NUS when he was president.