1200 [1130] Hrs GMT London Sunday 15 January 2012-01-15
AADHIKAROnline commentary:
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Miliband continues to back CON cuts and further poverty-creation, homelessness and destitution...Miliband comes out as the cuts-backing, Right-winger that he always has been. The impact of the exposure of Ed Miliband as another backer of Tory agenda occupying the lead spot in the former Labour Party is already being felt in the inner cities. In Tower Hamlets, the Miliband brothers have enjoyed persistent platforms given to them by locally-sited self-serving opportunists. There is no sign locally in Tower Hamlets of any discernible let alone consistently manifest opposition by the "elected" post-holders in the name of the local people in and of Tower Hamlets.
Yet some of these very same locally-elected post-holders are the only ones being given space by the ethnncity-0linekd propaganda outlets to utter scripted spiels interned to make them come across as the opposite of the cuts-backing Miliband band!
The situation in inner city England is being made far worse by the betrayal of the “locally-elected” post-holders mostly either aligned to the Miliband band or engaged in reconnecting themselves with the bureaucracy in the former Labour Party.
No local democracy.
No local say.
Mostly local denial, local deprivation and local discontent brewing.
Ed Miliband’s initial “promise” that his “leadership” would “reconnect” with the people has been exposed as another sham promise, another plastic platitude, and another untruth. Another wanton and outrageous lie..
The former Labour party’s dominant bureaucracy is as corrupt or as tolerant of corruption now as it was under Tony Bliar.
Cherie Blair being fingered as a ferocious capitalist bent on aiding and abetting the remainder of the NHS as she [Cherie] carries on her business with a “former” GW Bush Republican Party strategist], the scene is set for even more outrageous confessions by the many “stars” of the former Labour Party in “power”.
The people can only get poorer. The poorer the people the poorer they are going to be made in England by the corrupt agenda being carried out by the careerist occupants in posts on the so-called Opposition benches in the UK elected House of Parliament.
Local Councils in all the affected areas are being operated by faceless clerks doing the cuts while the faces of the elected councillors are being covered up by rising denials, silences and complicit frames of frozen, cruelly disguised and mock smiles.
[To be continued]
From the BBC web site London Sunday 15 January 2012:
5 January 2012 Last updated at 11:04
Miliband defends backing public sector pay freeze
Ed Miliband said it was 'right that we say we've got to prioritise employment' Labour leader Ed Miliband has defended his party's decision to support the government's pay freeze for public sector workers.
He said it was "a hard choice", but when faced with either protecting jobs or giving pay rises, it was "absolutely right to prioritise employment".
Unions have criticised the move, accusing Labour of "emulating the Tories on many issues".
But Mr Miliband told the BBC his party had to show it was "fiscally credible".
The government announced in 2010 that public sector pay for those earning more than £21,000 would be frozen for two years.
Then last November Chancellor George Osborne said pay would rise by only 1% in the two years to 2015.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said on Saturday that "given the economy failing as it is... pay restraint is going to have to continue".
'Barmy'In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Miliband defended the stance.
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Ed MilibandWe are absolutely determined that Labour shows we would be fiscally credible in government”
"It's a hard choice, but when you are faced with the choice between protecting jobs or saying the money should go into pay rises I think it's right to protect jobs," he said.
"In the end there's no easy choices in government... I think is absolutely right that we say we've got to prioritise employment."
Several Labour MPs have reportedly criticised the move, among them Austin Mitchell. According to the Daily Mail he has called it "barmy" and accused Mr Miliband of "weakness".
Mr Miliband said Mr Mitchell was "wrong", adding: "We are absolutely determined that Labour shows we would be fiscally credible in government."
PCS union leader Mark Serwotka said Mr Balls' comments were "hugely disappointing" and accused Labour of failing to stand up for "ordinary people".
The general secretary of the RMT rail union said Mr Balls was signing "Labour's electoral suicide note".
Neither the PCS or RMT are affiliated to the Labour Party.
'Responsible opposition'In a speech earlier this week, Mr Miliband said a future Labour government would have less to spend than those in the past, but could still "deliver fairness".
He told Andrew Marr: "If Labour was in power now we wouldn't be making those changes, we wouldn't be cutting as far and as fast as the government.
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Simon Hughes Lib Dem deputy leaderThey can't be hugely critical of the government one day and then say they'd have the same policy the next”
"But then when it comes to the next Labour government, if I was saying to you, 'I can absolutely promise to restore this cut or that cut,' well, you would say, 'Where is the money going to come from for that? How do you know what you will inherit?'
"This is absolutely responsible opposition and it is absolutely the right thing for us to be doing at this stage in the Parliament."
Mr Miliband again brushed off criticism of his leadership, saying: "This is part of the gig of being leader of the opposition.
"You always listen to the criticism, but I know my own mind. We are changing the Labour Party and the process of change is always hard won."
He insisted that David Cameron was "coming on to my ground" on issues like taking on vested interests and "crony capitalism".
"What gives me confidence is that we are winning the battle of ideas. It's not often you say that about an opposition," he said.
"Why is he coming on to my ground? Because he knows I'm talking about the right issues and the issues that matter to people.
"That's what gives me confidence."
'Great damage'But Foreign Secretary William Hague said that if the government adopted Mr Miliband's approach, the UK's credit rating would be "in danger".
"That could then mean higher interest rates for businesses for households and can do great damage to the economy," he told Sky News.
Mr Hague was speaking after France's top credit rating - so-called triple A - was downgraded by agency Standard and Poor's.
The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, said it was time that Labour came to its senses, but argued that it would not gain them any electoral advantage.
He added: "They can't have it both ways. They can't be hugely critical of the government one day and then say they'd have the same policy the next."
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