What would you like to see cut?

Ana You brought up the subject of the IDS spoof tweets in an attempt to ridicule durhamjen. But then, when she responded by saying that David Cameron was taken in by them too, you tell her to "lighten up".

Didn't you fall for it too POGS?

I will get to the UKIP bit.

And you have told me all I need to know about the Labour bit.
Tut tut. I hope you have apologised to people if you have done that in real life.

Eloethan

No.

the Labour Party's attempts to re-establish their credibility

Yes, my DF would be shuddering if he knew what had happened to his beloved Labour party over the last 17 years.

I'm sorry, but they have a long way to go.

Perhaps here's the start of Labour's rehabilitation.

www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/29/labour-government-not-responsible-crash-bank-england-governor-mervyn-king

I don't think that King's article should come as "news" to anyone. Of course the thinking throughout the past 30 years has been less regulation and smaller government. This started with our illustrious leader the sacred Margaret. Whether the Labour government was correct in following the zeitgeist is another issue.

What is certain though is that Britains deficit and debt was better than most other developed nation's before the crash.

Our position at the last election was as a result of bailing out the banks to the tune of squillions. Whether the British Government should have done so or left the banks out to dry is another argument.

What he is saying is that this government should stop blaming Labour as they went along with it, as did the Libdems.

Yes durham as I mentioned it was the accepted ideology by some for smaller government and less regulation. However, there can always be an argument from the left whether a Labour Government should seemingly blindly follow the argument of such ideology coming as was from the Republicans and Tories.

Yes, Meryn King is quite right. The Labour Party, for all its sins, was NOT responsible for the worldwide financial crash resulting from the utter irresponsibility and greed of the banking and finance sectors. Free enterprise and self-regulation were, and still are, key elements of Tory philosophy and to try and shift the blame for the mess onto the shoulders of others is a typical shabby trick on the part of this devious little rich-boy government. Remember that come the election.