Despite the rather cras attempt by the right wing to talk about anything but jobs it is worth remembering that today marked a dark day for Medway and the United Kingdom. The Tory plan for economic recovery, the too-far too-fast plan, has failed and failed utterly.
Tories and their 'right-leaning' supporters simply dont care. It is all about partisan posturing and who performed well at PMQs. It really does show how utterly out of touch Conservatives really are.
No apology today from Mark Reckless, Rehman Chisthi or Tracey Crouch to the thousands of Medway residents who are jobless, who are being evicted from their homes, suffering from negative equity, worried for their futures.
No apology at all. Almost erased from the mind as they huzzah'ed the Etonian tonight. All mutual back-slapping am sure.
We can all see that the Euroloon extremist wing of the Conservative Party - which is now in charge - is riding on a high because they have promised the unpromisable; they have given the proverbial two nuggets of gold to their base and have seen a very temporary poll bounce. They are gleeful that UKIP voters; the 'loonies and fruitcakes' have joined them on their cause.
Some more moderate Tories are talking too; and they know that Cameron's position is now untenable on Europe. An embarrassing volte-face is now all but necessary. The City also knows it too...
According to Specator Editor who was talking with the Channel 4 Economics spokesperson Faisal Islam ""My gut feeling we'll end up back in the room, and even agree Treaty, after a facesaving 'Safeguard' >> my gut feeling too.""
The loons are high now; but they will soon feel a Euro-induced relapse.
Of course whilst the Tories talk Europe they utterly ignore unemployment which has now risen to a 17 year high. A record amount of lost talent as a direct result of Conservative economic failure.
Let the Tories talk about Ed Miliband; tomorrow's election result in Feltham & Heston, a Tory seat between 1979-1992 should have fallen to Cameron in 2010. Now, they are all but written-off in a seat, that had Cameron performed lasy year, would have been a Conservative seat. They had everything... but still could not deliver.
Cameron is not performing since he fluffed the election that was a gift-horse in the mouth... and deep down they know that his Etonian out-of-touch haughtyness is un-nerving to those voters who simply did not trust the Tories with power last year.
Unsurprisingly for a looser, he is now isolated in the world and derided by his own Deputy Prime Minister. He now oversee's a dysfunctional coalition government. This image will outlast the temporary poll fillip; and the damage done in Cabinet when Lib Dem dummies flung the toys out of the pram cannot now be undone.
Tories should be very worried that only a fortnight ago they were talking about kicking Cameron if he did the wrong thing in Europe; now you just have to laugh, they have the nerve to claim Labour is wobbling and should do the same with Ed Miliband. Too busy playing partisan games whilst the public demand better.
Our membership are not as fickle as yours; we are wedded to reasoned and sensible moderate policies. That will mean sure electoral gains once the public gain confidence; and that takes times, whoever is in charge.
Ed Miliband is actually doing well given the task. After 13 years of government, the worst recession since the 1930s, an unelectable leader (in Brown), the expenses scandal. Under his leadership polls have moved from the lower 20s to a consistent 40+. It is now interesting that many of the betting agencies put it odds-on that Labour will win in 2015.
Labour need to calm; continue to make the economic case and work at that niggling feeling that the Tories are making a poor job on the economy and actually focus on the issues that matter; namely employment.
At yesterday's Regeneration Overview & Scrutiny Committee I specifically raised the 'red-flag' markers all Councillors are reading on employment. The Conservative move to scrap the Future Jobs Fund was a massive mistake and we will not see the results of the Work Programme for another quarter. Tories scoffed in derision; Cllr Chitty was living in la-la land when she claimed in full throttle (as only Cllr Chitty can) that Medway is well positioned!
Lets just look at the Conservative failure:
More people looking for work than jobs available
Over 6% of young people unemployed for over 6 months, higher than UK average and South East
Medway higher overall rate then Kent, South East and rest of UK. [Kent is at 3.2%]
If you want to know what matters more than Europe; It's jobs.
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