Comments on: Labour needs to place fiscal conservatism at the heart of its appeal http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/ Left-wing news, opinion and activism Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:06:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.11 By: Gracie Samuels http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-368827 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:41:33 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-368827 @RichardJMurphy @adamjlent Looks like it has come from this a year out of date! http://t.co/hH8oN2LM

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By: Labour’s deficit hawks won’t admit it but Cameron has trapped them | Liberal Conspiracy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-348415 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:30:24 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-348415 […] main objection went like this: Adam Lent wrote on Libcon recently that Labour should not oppose all the cuts the government makes. He didn’t clarify whether […]

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By: Europe leaves Britain behind, In The Black Labour makes a splash, and inequality rises fast: round up of political blogs for 3 – 9 December | British Politics and Policy at LSE http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-339128 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:03:00 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-339128 […] Policy Network’s ‘In the Black Labour’ report made a big slash by arguing Labour should appeal to fiscal conservatism, with Hopi […]

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By: Neil Craig http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-338470 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:04:37 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-338470 Obviously every inteligent Labour MP knows perfectly well how to get ourt of recession in days. Equally obviously none of them have the remotest intention of doing so. These thieving fascist parasites unquestionably want the recession to continue for generations so that the scum can lord it over the rest of us.

Obviously this makes it rather difficult for the parasites to “win” trust.

Or is there a single apparatchik of that party of genocidal, organlegging, war criminals who can claim they don’t know how to end the recession?

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By: Chaise Guevara http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-338077 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:27:20 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-338077 @ 45

“Or are you just belching out simplistic reactionary claptrap?”

Ooh, ooh! I know!

I’m pretty sure that our learned friend Hoongdiddy gets all of his/her factual beliefs based on whatever he/she read in the Daily Mail this week, then cheerfully vomits them up onto this site in the belief the he/she is Raising Challenging Points.

Over on another thread, Hoongdiddy has just explained that OccupyLSX need to be followed by the cops as they’re Marxists, and therefore responsible for the greatest mass-murder in the last century. Who’d have known?

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By: BenM http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-338071 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:23 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-338071 @44 REACTIONARY KLAXON!

Oh my god, pomposity meter about to break. All those cold, starving dears with flatscreen TVs, 5 kids and sky TV.

What all of them?

You’ve done a survey?

Or are you just belching out simplistic reactionary claptrap?

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By: The response to “In The Black” | hopisen.com http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-338056 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:39:06 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-338056 […] My co-author Adam Lent is unsurprisingly positive. […]

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | newspower.eu http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337973 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:15:08 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337973 […] a co-author of In a Black Labour – a new paper most discussed in antithesis circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with feat awarded to “the smartest man in a room&#8221…. Labour can call all a charts it likes, though it won’t work if it runs opposite to what a […]

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By: Hoongdiddy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337952 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:33:11 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337952 42 I’m sure you find killing the poor with cold and starvation entirely acceptable, as the Tories do. I don’t.

Oh my god, pomposity meter about to break. All those cold, starving dears with flatscreen TVs, 5 kids and sky TV. You ass.

@24 – Absolutely. It’s crackdown on skilled workers hurt it with the left. For the rest, if you’re suggesting that Labour needs to appeal to the EDL and BNP…go join them.

The reality is it’s mal-adjusted buffoons like you that are ensuring that the far right will continue to grow. The EDL and BNP are beginning to appeal to many more people than you would give credit for. Perhaps if the Labour party did what they were supposed to – represent the working class instead of the guilt complexes of the middle class, women who just keep getting pregnant, and those who aren’t white (that’s racism if you didn’t get it that way round) then they might be more popular.

I voted labour, many of my friends certainly my entire family did until you turned your backs on the working class that put you there in the first place. 100 years of union achievements – swept aside by importing a cheaper workforce for the sack of economic growth and re-election – and the arrogant so-and-sos say “it’s jobs you don’t want to do, they work harder than you – have some benefits and sit on your backside deary”

Now I sit looking at the far-right thinking “even though I don’t agree with most of their policy, these guys actually represent me”

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | Jonathan Freedland | ForexWorldBlog http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337951 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:23:09 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337951 […] co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room&…. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the […]

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By: Hoongdiddy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337950 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:20:13 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337950 You will not win back the voters for a long, long while,

What Labour did to this country will never be forgotton. My nephews can’t go to the same school as my sister and I becuase the school has said the places are for non-UK children (i.e. Polish) and they now have to travel another 2 miles to a school in chav central. Labour has ruined this school as well by creating the epidemic of “entitled” dickheads who populate the other school. Feckless white trash.

You have taxed me out of existance to pay for “the most vulnerable”. personally I couldn’t give a tom titt about the “most vulnerable”. “Most vulnerable” = single mothers, Asians, African Immigrants and anyone apart from white working class males, you know, the ones that pay for everything, fight wars etc.

Labour are utter selfish bastards, only concerned with the agenda for their special interest groups, hijacking words like “fair” and twisting their meaning so far out of shape it’s like 1984.

As I said, utter bastards, and entirelyu unforgivable.

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | Jonathan Freedland « London New Media http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337948 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:17:09 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337948 […] co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room&…. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the […]

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | Jonathan Freedland | Business Blogs and News http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337934 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:24:58 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337934 […] co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room&…. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the […]

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | Jonathan Freedland | Finance Update http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337922 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:30:08 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337922 […] co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room&…. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the […]

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By: Ed Balls is right on the economy – but the public aren’t ready for Keynes | Jonathan Freedland http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337916 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:37:59 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337916 […] co-author of In the Black Labour – a new paper much discussed in opposition circles – argues, elections are not rounds of Mastermind, with victory awarded to “the smartest guy in the room&…. Labour can wave all the charts it likes, but it won’t work if it runs counter to what the […]

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By: Leon Wolfson http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337799 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:53:19 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337799 Tory. You’re just working for them, to *ensure* that the left stay home.

I’m sure you find killing the poor with cold and starvation entirely acceptable, as the Tories do. I don’t.

@24 – Absolutely. It’s crackdown on skilled workers hurt it with the left. For the rest, if you’re suggesting that Labour needs to appeal to the EDL and BNP…go join them.

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By: Morzer http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337622 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:30:05 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337622 “An unashamed fiscally conservative message needs to be placed at the heart of Labour’s appeal”

Given the choice between a fake Tory and a real Tory, people will vote for the real Tory every time. That, of course, is before we even consider the disaster that is Osbornomics. We need a real economic strategy and a real economic debate – and you won’t achieve either of them by pretending to be Cameron 5.0. We need to move away from the failed American model, look at how Germany and Scandinavia have prospered – and reinvent the British economy on that basis.

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By: Robert CP http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337673 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:35:31 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337673 And @adamjlent links economic to political reality in an @libcon blog on #intheblacklabour http://t.co/4iJ8roFe

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By: Jamie http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337674 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:41:31 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337674 Why I'm rapidly losing support & tiring of Labour > Labour needs to place fiscal conservatism at heart of its appeal http://t.co/ZN3C4MtD

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By: Chris http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337594 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:06:00 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337594 “the problem is the Party cannot cut through until it wins back trust.”

On the economy at least, voters have no good reason not to trust Labour. I’m sorry, but if we’re already right (which we are), it makes no sense and is probably unethical to change our position just to pander to voters like some sort of supermarket chain.

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By: Hal http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337586 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:56:03 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337586 Totally, totally foolish. Austerity is the wrong policy for a recession, 180 degrees wrong. It has been tried many times and always ends up making the problem worse. It is a solution touted by those ignorant of economics and those who want to use it for right-wing ideological purposes.

The only way forward for the Labour party is to own up to the mistake Alistair Darling made in signing up to austerity, learn to love the deficit as the correct solution to stimulating the economy, and move on to the real concern: unemployment.

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By: Kiran Bolla http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337675 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:53:42 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337675 "According to Ashcroft research, not a single floating voter in focus groups was aware Ed Balls used to advise Brown" http://t.co/jTQxGGXi

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By: Sean Lynch http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337676 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:44 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337676 "According to Ashcroft research, not a single floating voter in focus groups was aware Ed Balls used to advise Brown" http://t.co/jTQxGGXi

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By: Richard Nicholl http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337677 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:32 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337677 "According to Ashcroft research, not a single floating voter in focus groups was aware Ed Balls used to advise Brown" http://t.co/jTQxGGXi

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By: sunny hundal http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/12/05/labour-needs-to-place-fiscal-conservatism-at-the-heart-of-its-appeal/#comment-337678 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:10 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=28976#comment-337678 "According to Ashcroft research, not a single floating voter in focus groups was aware Ed Balls used to advise Brown" http://t.co/jTQxGGXi

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