What Will Labour Promise Next ?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1145724/miliband-labour-would-freeze-energy-prices

Well according to labour we will be having free healthcare, businesses will have hardly any rates and now energy prices will be frozen.

Do they really think the public is that stupid?

[boxtops]

Well, all the audience are clapping enthusiastically on the news at the moment!

[DTCwordfan]

free condoms for immigrant groups and catholics.

fixing of prices for petrol and diesel

war against Syria

and the impeachment of Tony Blair - and Fiona Bruce.

[jno]

ah, they cheered when the Tories promised not to raise VAT, so perhaps Labour judge the public's gullibility from that?

[ToraToraTora]

It's easy to make promises when you are never going to have to deliver.

[trt]

PROMISES PROMISES, which never happens, like the rest of the other lot did not do.
As for his idea about giving the vote to 16 and 17 year olds, he must be joking, they would only be interested in getting free iPhone's and laptops!!!!!!

What a plonker!!!!!

[DTCwordfan]

Oh - and the selling of the gold reserves to pay for all of this once again - though they could sell Scotland off to Al Qaeda.

[petal54]

who does trust any politician?believe nothind,trust nobody!

[trt]

Did he mention Immigration, I was to busy laughing out load at him?

[ToraToraTora]

selling gold! PMSL, let's hope they get more than a shilling a cwt this time!

[DTCwordfan]

Why Scotland? Well if we tried selling cities like Bradfordistan, Leicesteriyadh, or Notlobistan off, we would have to pay them, not the other way around.

[youngmafbog]

I reckon Balls put paid to any labour victory yesterday. The man is simply not electable.

[Wharton]

In less than a year's time Scotland will have left you to keep your petty squabbles to yourselves in your wee Westminster tribal hut. Heah! Heah! (in silly unintelligible accent).

[TheNovice]

we need a credible opposition.... Ed Milliband & co are not it, Did anyone notice when he was doing his spiel about giving 16/17 year olds the vote the crowd behind him were all youngsters nodding like puppets. So contrived, so many sound bites (Ed - we deserve better than that!!) and sycophants everywhere!! Ed Balls to come, telling us how the economy should be run!!!!!

[TheNovice]

sorry didn't see previous post, must have missed Mr Balls words of wisdom yesterday!!

[FredPuli43]

And we're getting 200,000 new houses a year. I'll vote for that; we need 40 houses in this village but the Council ignores us, whatever government says. And that should get some Tory votes. It's mostly Tories who own the land to build them on!

[joggerjayne]

Well, Labour would have to sell all our gold reserves to fund promises like that.

Oh no, sorry, I'd forgotten. They sold it when they were last in office.

[jomifl]

Milliband has until now always looked like a 6th form debater but with the vast forum of the labour party conference he is now definitely a mass debater...

[joggerjayne]

Was anyone there to hear him.

I think all the delegates were on the beach.

[LazyGun]

Freezing business rates is not the same thing as "hardly any rates". Or do you approve of hiking up business rates?

And I for one would welcome a much more vigorous intervention into the shadowed world of energy price tariffs by the big 6. The pledge lasts for only 20 months which is not long enough in my opinion.

These energy companies have made pretty enormous profits, largely deflecting attention away from that by claiming such price hikes are necessary for "infrastructure development". But I have my doubts. Any measures that restrict price hikes and force the energy companies to be much more transparent in their pricing policy should be welcomed by everyone.

I do have issues with the claim about 200,000 new houses a year though; Labour pledged it before but were unable to deliver. In fact it has been undeliverable for decades. Only when you had large state sector involvement in the shape of local councils and council housing was that achieved.

[TheNovice]

is this not Labour spending money we don't have? Now that sounds familiar. I'm still waiting for Labour to claim credit for Osborne selling the Lloyds shares at a profit to the nation!!