Now Miliband

[Suff]

Is goung to reduce students fees by £3000. Ok so that is half a million this year alone.

Is the press ever going to check his spreadsheet?

Sounds like Enron accountancy to me.

Perhaps we'll get bumper bankers bonuses in the next 5 years and they will be so happy to give it all to such a good cause!

[Rodo]

It's so obvious isn't it. He is going after the young vote. The Conservatives seem to be going after the old vote.

[Suff]

True but "going after" does not mean can afford. Cameron and Osborne are challenged on affordability at every step but Miliband seems to get a free ride.

[KateLMead]

The idiots supposedly representing and deciding the future of this country and its peoples have not been out of school that long... And it shows.
By the way.. "I am not BRITISH I am ENGLISH"

[Workingman]

The current situation is one of B'Liarite Labour's making.

Selling the idea of 50% of the population going to University (to massage unemployment figures) was a vote winner with the young. Now it is a yolk around our, and their, necks. Carrying out a roll-back of fees is now seen as another winner for the young vote - uncosted, of course..

I would actually prefer to see the idea of apprenticeships take hold. However, they have to be quality apprenticeships and not the six month wham-bam schemes currently on offer from Ed.

Other countries, notably Germany, do rather well out of having a technically well trained workforce and not one overloaded with pseudo-academics from pretend universities.

[Aggers]

By the way.. "I am not BRITISH I am ENGLISH"

I'm not BRITISH either. I prefer to consider myself as REAL ENGLISH.

[cromwell]

Other countries, notably Germany, do rather well out of having a technically well trained workforce and not one overloaded with pseudo-academics from pretend universities.

Absolutely.

[Suff]

Like polytechs which suddenly became "universities" which meant they could charge shedloads for degrees which would never net a job....

[cromwell]

Is goung to reduce students fees by £3000. Ok so that is half a million this year alone.

Is the press ever going to check his spreadsheet?

The press might, TV news doesn't. Like Blair before him Milibean is given a very easy ride by both Sky and the BBC. They report his promises unquestioningly, which is a big contrast to the way they go after the Tories at every opportunity.

[Suff]

I was talking to #1 daughter today. Imagine being a NHS Accounts exec. You are not sure what your budget will be, who will be in power, what the structure of the service will be and no idea how to structure the budget except for what you already have. The NHS year end is end of March.

There is another kerfuffle going on over in their area too which is also not helping.

What would you do in that situation? They know that they will work 14 hour days all March, weekend work too, then they will have to do it all over again in May/June....

Personally I don't think many in the NHS will be voting for Miliband. All he represents for them is major uncertainty. Me? I wouldn't let him run a hot dog stand let alone a service with 1m employees....