Party Election Broadcast: A nightmare on your street

Well well. Doesn't this seem curiously like the leaflets that David Cameron confronted Gordon about during the election debate. You know the ones that Gordon "didn't authorise". I wonder whether he auhorised this or is he completely unaware of whats going on in his own party?

Honestly how many times does a Prime minister have to get caught in a lie before people realise that he is a liar?

welfare dependency?

So what you're saying is that rich Londoners in their £1.5million houses on 50K a year wouldn't get handouts? I'd vote for that. I should definitely be paying more tax on my 15K to prop up these poor unfortunates. Yes, I would gladly pay more tax to buy them all a nice new people carrier and put their dozens of kids through that nice selective posh school up the road, its almost like private you know.

Good grief, the Labour Party really doesn't know what its for anymore does it? And a campaign based on fear and loathing is definitely a good idea. More fear and loathing please.

"I am told that Alan Johnson has made clear to the Foreign Secretary’s supporters that he would back Mr Miliband rather than standing himself. Lord Mandelson is also in the same camp.

Interestingly, Jon Cruddas, the champion of the thoughtful Left, sees himself as being on the liberal rather than the statist side. The left-wing pressure group Compass, with which he is associated, recently balloted its members on whether it should encourage Labour supporters to vote tactically for the Lib Dems to keep out the Conservatives. Mr Cruddas could swing behind Mr Miliband in a choice between him and Mr Balls."

So Brown will continue as Labour Leader? Seems the knives are out and already carving up the succession.

The Glasgow Herald is running a piece which contains the words from one CLP PPC (in what was once a safe Labour seat in Scotland) that: 'Gordon Brown is toxic on the doorsteps'.

Even the Scottish media is beginning to turn against Labour in Scotland as more and more of the Tammany Hall activities of the Glasgow Labour Party leak out.

Commentators in 'North Briton' are now discussing the chances of the worst electoral result for Labour in Scotland since 1918 and talking up the SNP's chances of forcing the BBC to either give them a platform on Thursday's 'Presidential' debate or see the program prevented from being viewed in Scotland.

The Tories are an irrelevance to Scotland so attack away as the cracks in the Union increase day by day, the wedges being driven in by the self same 'Clunking Fist'. The SNP are leading the opinion polls in Robin Cooke's old fiefdom of Livingston and the basket case the NEC made of East Lothian. The Libdems are knocking hard on Alistair Darling's door and Scottish Secretary Murphy's coat is on a shoogly peg as well - especially after his last place finish on the sop to Scotland debate.

Just to really cheer folk up, the usually loyal to Labour media, in Scotland, are running a piece about Blair's role in the El Megahri fiasco making it clear (after a FOI release) that the 'prisoner exchange' was part of the Shell / BP's £1.2 billion deal with Gadaffi. So just who needs to apologise the the Lockerbie victims? It does not seem to be the SNP - more Labour lies then.

Time to take the blinkers off folks - Brown is no asset to the Labour Party, he is the biggest liability and Blair has long been the albatross around Labour's neck. If Labour are really lucky they may still 'stoppeth one in three' on the 6th of May 2010.

Middle and modest incomes? I am not sure that £50,000 per annum would be classed as a modest income.

hi Paul

I thought the avrage was 24k a year , The money should spent on who needs it the most ,not middle class voters ,But then again these are the same mps that think 64k a year is not enough , no wonder voters are turned off.

danny

It's not a definition of modest that I've come across before.

That first couple had a massive house, why am I subsidising them?

I think you are supposed to like them 'cos the are 'just like the rest of us'. Well, if the rest of us are earning £50,000+ per annum and still sucking at the public teat, there is something very wrong up and down the country. It's called buying votes.

I do not pay taxes to help out the middle classes.

This is a stupid video that will upset as many people as it pleases.

@ MB 5000, Danny, Paul P,

From the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2009) conducted by ONS, for full-time employees :

Male median - £27,600 ; male mean - £33,400
Female median - £22,200 ; female mean - £26,000
All median - £25,400 ; all mean - £30,500

An income of £50,000 would place a male full-time employee at the 85th percentile point, ie in the top 15 per cent and, as near as dammit is to swearing, at the 90th percentile point for "all employees, full time" (ie in the top 10 per cent of earners).

Please, don't shoot the messenger ....

Thank you, Peter.

Hi Peter

thanks , i dont see why people earning 50k a year should get any benifits or help , we should be helping the poorest, not middle england .

danny

Danny,

Agreed - but then you need to think of the wages distribution as it applies to Daily Tel and Daily Mail readers.

Never forget - the prime purpose of The Almighty is to keep "middle England" in perpetual prosperity.

Hi Peter

at one time the labour party had princables , Then Mr Blair, mr Brown and Lord Mandleson got hold of it .

Danny

You're all right, of course. I can't be bothered to watch the video - I too am fed up with this election, not least because of Clegg the self-righteous. The Tories are just as idiotic. They simply want to remove WTCs for those earning £50-58k. The level of cut-off should be much lower, to the benefit of people like Charlie F and MonkeyBot. They are all bonkers on this one. They are all scared shitless of losing the middling vote rather than concerned about poverty, relative or absolute.

Good broadcast.

Tories seem to be so politically naive with their focus on cuts.

Gordon has made this the Tory issue that voters most remember - hence the decline in the Tory vote from 40% since January.