#EdStone

[Suff]

Whilst I had a quick look at the edifice in the press at the time, I didn't really think about it.

So now we have the press trying to find the thing. I'm sure so that they can plant it somewhere with a slogan like "think before spinning" emblazoned before it.

I had a look at the monumentally arrogant statements on it. Really, if anything proved that Miliband had absolutely no clue how to run the country, this is it.

So let me see, I'd like to reorder entries 3 and 4 but here goes...

1. A strong economic foundation
- So what is that?

I quote

Today, the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world in 2012

And the current trajectory is to head for 5 although Germany is 5 and that would require quite a log of growth differential. But, still, #6 out of 190.

The UK has the 20th largest labour force in the world,

So we live at #6 with the #20 work force. In fact if you take GDP per capita and not by absolute value, the UK is exactly the same as Germany.

Manufacturing of goods is particularly important for UK industries. The UK is the sixth-largest manufacturer of goods in the world according to the value of its outputs

Yep not only do we sit at #6 in the world, the value of what we produce in manufactured goods is also #6 in the world. After all, we don't have the manpower of China so we should create expensive stuff that people really need.

UK’s aerospace industry is the second largest in the world

BAE Systems (the world’s second largest defence contractor)

Rolls-Royce (the world’s second largest aircraft engine maker)

Finance and banking are by far the UK’s most important services with London being one of the three major economic “command centres” alongside New York City and Tokyo

Did I occasionally mention that London is the biggest of the three?

2. Higher living standards for working families

Yep, wer're WAY down the league table. Practically third world...

The UK’s standard of living has climbed to the joint fourth-highest within the European Union, overtaking the Netherlands and significantly ahead of France

Pitiful isn't it....

3. Controls on Immigration

Don't make me laugh it only hurts. Miliband, Labour, the architects of social change through mass immigration. Going to stop it. No, NO, I can't take any more.

4. An NHS with time to care.

Well now if we didn't have such massive immigration driving up the population beyond the increases of funding and staffing, they might have time to care.

So, Ed, where is your gravestone? I'd like to bury you with it over your head.... And they wonder why people didn't vote for them. I'd rather vote for a 10 year old. I might actually get a better economic and social performance.

[medsec222]

Anyone with half a brain would have realised that a gimmick like this would make him a laughing stock, particularly with his name being Ed. The press had a field day. Have just seen David Milliband on the news. Can't imagine him getting involved in a stunt like that.

[cromwell]

I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for Ed Miliband.

These people in the Labour party all lining up to give him a good kicking - where were they last week? Last week they thought they were going to win, and none of them said a dicky bird about how bad the Labour campaign was. That old fraud Mandelson actually said that he "sensed" things had swung towards Labour!

This week Lord Fondlebum is giving a list of reasons why Miliband lost! Along with Blair and David Miliband too.

Honestly, what a bunch of backstabbers.

[Workingman]

The EDstone was the final straw. Six statements with nothing to back them up passed off as promises. At a stroke it revealed that Labour's cupboard was bare and deflected the difficult questions that were just emerging over Dave's £12bn welfare savings black hole.

[Suff]

Honestly, what a bunch of backstabbers.

Including Ed who stabbed his own brother in the back to get his job.

My sympathy ends there. He wanted the job so badly that he never stopped to consider whether he could do it or not. Command is lonely, if you get there and find you don't have what it takes, it is the most Darwinian process.

He just found out what the baby seal feels like when the killer whale knocks the ice shelf over.....

That's 2 for 2 for Labour now. My hope is they can make it 3 for 3.

[pederito1]

He always reminded me of "Butthead" in the cartoon series by Mike Judge. Appearance and mentality too.

[TheOstrich]

Higher living standards for working families

Yep, wer're WAY down the league table. Practically third world...

Yes.

One thing I noticed in the aftermath of the election when they were interviewing "the man on the street" was that there did seem to be a caucus of folk who had decided to vote Conservative because they were in a job, had been for the last 5 years, and had seen their living standards improve under the Tories ......

[Paddypix]

I don't think the media will find the Edstone. They know what a circus would be made of it if found. It will have been reduced to rubble and is probably being used as decorative pebbles in Ed's garden.

[Suff]

One thing I noticed in the aftermath of the election when they were interviewing "the man on the street" was that there did seem to be a caucus of folk who had decided to vote Conservative because they were in a job, had been for the last 5 years, and had seen their living standards improve under the Tories ......

Two different approaches. Tories want a smaller safety net but much less need for it. Allowing people to generate a much higher standard of living than the safety net.

Labour is diametrically opposed to that.... I know which one I prefer.

PP, that brings to mind a small horde of Labourites with sledge hammers setting about core labour policy with the intent of destroying it.

Now that has lightened my otherwise very dark day....