Comments on: No policies: it must be a catching Labour disease

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:12:39 +0000

In reply to Harry Purdie. Unfortunately, 'nice' guys usually finish last in politics, Susan. We'll see.

By: Brian Pace

Brian Pace — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:40:38 +0000

Comparing the UK Labour Party to Malta’s is ludicrous.

UK Labour spent from 1997 to 2010 in government. Ed Milliband has been in charge for just over a year and his party is going through a difficult transition from Blairite third way policy.

Malta’s PL spent nearly twenty years in opposition and Muscat has been in charge for over three years.

Furthermore, despite your assertions, UK Labour did propose some concrete, if modest, policy measures:

A tax on bankers’ bonuses.
Reducing VAT from 20% to 17.5%
One year slashing of VAT to 5% on home improvements
One year national insurance tax break for small firms hiring extra workers.
Fast tracking long term infrastructure investments.

By: susan galea

susan galea — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:58:16 +0000

In reply to Harry Purdie. David Miliband would not have been acceptable to the majority of us. He was complicit in clandestine rendition on behalf of the US, and was also caught out in the MPs' expenses scandal.. Ed, on the other hand, did not even apply for all the expenses funds to which he was entitled.

By: ta' sapienza

ta' sapienza — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:44:00 +0000

What do you make of this Daf ?
Any chance of a translation into layman’s terms?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110929/local/man-fails-to-annul-notarial-deed-of-compromise.387002

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:36:53 +0000

Watching an Ed Miliband speech is a total waste of time. You wait and wait for that something which is THE solution and he ends up with “ I haven’t finished yet” (while there is a long applause)…..you wait, and wait, and Sylvester says: “no party like Labour can run the NHS like it does” (or something to that effect) …and then the final applause.

By: 'Angus Black

'Angus Black — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:16:39 +0000

It’s not perhaps “it must be a catching Labour disease”, but it is definitely a condition Labour Parties suffer from.

The sort of people who are attracted to Labour are the ones who tend to favour over-simplistic and childish solutions which the naive will swallow hook, line and sinker.

Anyone with a few active grey cells will never follow a Labour Party, be it Maltese, British or whatever.

However the (Malta) Labour Party is at a particular disadvantage having a leader who is young, inexperienced and takes up to six years to understand the result of a referendum.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:03:31 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Never did think that Ed was leadership material. (maybe it’s the lisp). His brother would have been more formidable.

You’ve got it spot on about both our Labour ‘leader’ and Ed have similar non-policies.

However the best comparison is that they are both hypocrites. Little Joey, however, lives it, although he can’t spell it.

By: john

john — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:35:15 +0000

In reply to Tina.

…….. and they ended up in dire straits.

By: eros

eros — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:13:15 +0000

Every time I watch Ed Miliband speak, I can’t help thinking what a terrible choice the British Labour Party made for its new leader.

Considering that Joseph Muscat looks up at this chap for inspiration, we are surely heading for a rough roller-coaster ride.

By: C Falzon

C Falzon — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:51 +0000

It seems he does have one single policy, exactly the same one Jozef has:

“This was how Ed Miliband’s ‘Promise of Britain” speech got underway today. Twenty minutes after the Labour leader was supposed to have started, the assembled members of the public and press were still waiting for him to appear.”

http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/159322/heavy-on-the-problems-light-on-the-solutions.thtml