I was expecting a youtube video Prodigy/Ed Miliband montage. Massive disappointment. Apart from that, I completely agree.

From Voodoo Economics to Voodoo People.

That Laboured pun is made all the better by it being shit and by being about a Labour politician.

Geddit? Laboured pun? Is this thing on?

The coalition just carrying on where Nulabour left off, a bit rich from the rich complaining about the rich.

Nice to see yet another Labour press release churned up for LC. What I originally loved about LC was the way it tackled all the parties for their failings. All LC seems to be nowadays is yet another Labour mouth piece – most of the time. The Labour party at the moment is failing to lay out an alternative direction for the country and is relying on rhetoric instead of policy. As a someone who believes that, regardless of who’s in power, this country needs a credible opposition, this disturbs me.

Lib Con’s editorial shouldn’t be churning out Labour press releases, it should be criticising Labour and Ed Milliband for their lack of concrete policy. Seriously, I don’t want a Conservative majority at the next election but unless Labour and Ed get their fingers out then that’s exactly what we’re going to have. And LC just acting as an uncritical cheerleader won’t help that at all.

Nice to see yet another Labour press release churned up for LC. What I originally loved about LC was the way it tackled all the parties for their failings.

*sigh*

I really despair when people don’t even get basic things. This is the news section. We have an opinion section too. In the news section, we report on things that are going on in westminster and elsewhere. Given that this is a major speech by EdM, expanding on the themes I talked about earlier today, its worth reporting on so people know what’s going on. We also reported this story before the national papers did (they’ll report on it tomorrow). So what you’re seeing here is not much different to what you would see on the Guardian site. The Guardian runs news and it also has opinion columns agreeing or disagreeing with Labour or Libdem or Tory policies. Could I bet any more damn clearer?

@5

It’s perfectly possible to report the news without just C&Ping press releases. And, to be fair, I’m not referring to this piece in particular, I’m referring to the way LC seems to be going overall. Obviously I’m only speaking for myself, but I found LC much better in the old days when their was more informed opinion and analysis than press releases. At the end of the day, if I want a press release I’ll go to a newspaper. When I want news on stuff the mainstream press has ignored, or detailed analysis, or an alternative viewpoint, I come here.

It’s perfectly possible to report the news without just C&Ping press releases.

We have been doing both for quite a while. I happen to think this is pretty important in the context of what’s going on within Labour right now, so I made the editorial decision to run a piece on it. When the Libdems do something important, we’ll run stories on that too.

-It will be harder to get on housing ladder

Argh! He’d do better by slaying this abomination of a phrase. If he really wants to reach out to people he should say – It will be harder to buy your first home.

[8] “It will be harder to buy your first home” – while social housing will remain little more than a mirage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/panorama/2011/05/council_houses_cheats_and_vict.html

But do we need Ed to coin phrases like the ‘jilted generation’ – any parent with a couple of teenagers, close in age, who have university aspirations can give thanks to Blair for setting such an exciting right wing agenda (war, privatisation, and debt culture).

I can’t help but be reminded of Jilted John. How did it go? “Gordon is a moron.”

“It will be harder to buy your first home”

Could just talk about it being harder to have somewhere decent and secure to live. The concept of buying your first home is an odd one these days. Who moves straight from living with parents to owning any more, not many. So is a rented property not a home? World of semantic confusion,

Labour’s biggest loss of votes by tenure was among private renters. Maybe partly down to anger at being locked out of ownership, but given how that turned out for many (more a housing snake than a housing ladder) I think more about the rising cost of private rent and the tax breaks for landlords coupled with a complete absence of decent regulation and protection from unwarranted eviction.

@11 You could be right there. Didn’t one local labour group garner a fair bit of support for itself by taking on slum landlords and the negative effect they had on the local community?

Another suggestion for the slogan was “Smack My Bitch Up”.

Facetious comments aside, he’s right.

@ 11 oldpolitics

“Could just talk about it being harder to have somewhere decent and secure to live. The concept of buying your first home is an odd one these days. Who moves straight from living with parents to owning any more, not many”

… one of the main reasons being that houses are so expensive these days. The problem doesn’t vanish just because it’s mainstream. Although I agree, now you’ve pointed it out, that “first home” is not the clearest expression in the world.

Fuck ‘em, and Their Law!

I though the jilted generation were the punks?

Mind you, despite his age, Mr Milliband seems to have no understanding of the anger and energy of a proper generational conflict.

More of the same. This was a Labour designed mess supported by the Tories in opposition. Its the same old song.