The poster UKIP should have used
Apparently UKIP will be launching a poster next week which has nothing more constructive to say than to swear about all the main party leaders.
No party is perfect but it's a bit hypocritical for UKIP to pose as the anti-establishment party. They seem to be hoping voters have forgotten that the proportion of MEPs elected under UKIP's banner who have been proven to have fiddled their expenses represents an even worse record than the MPs or MEPs of any of the other parties represented in Westminster or Brussels.
I much prefer this alternative version of their poster.
Meanwhile on the BBC Politics show this lunchtime, Lib/Dem treasury spokesman Vince Cable was forced to admit that his party's poster claiming that the Conservatives would put up VAT was pure conjecture and that he couldn't rule out putting up VAT either. Hat tip to Conservative Home for this extract from a transcript of the show:
JON SOPEL: I mean let’s leave aside whether or whether not there is a black hole in the Tories' finances. Leave that to one side. You don’t know factually, that they are going to raise VAT. That is your conjecture.
VINCE CABLE: It is a conjecture and it’s a reasonable assumption and I wouldn’t claim anymore than that.
JON SOPEL: And that £389 is a rough figure plucked –
VINCE CABLE: It’s a ball park estimate of what it would require in order to fill that gap, and it seems a reasonable way of expressing that argument."
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JON SOPEL: Would you rule out raising VAT?
VINCE CABLE: No, I don’t. It’s something –
JON SOPEL: So therefore your position is no different to them."
You can read a Press Association summary of the interview here, and see a Conservative Home alternative version of the poster here.
No party is perfect but it's a bit hypocritical for UKIP to pose as the anti-establishment party. They seem to be hoping voters have forgotten that the proportion of MEPs elected under UKIP's banner who have been proven to have fiddled their expenses represents an even worse record than the MPs or MEPs of any of the other parties represented in Westminster or Brussels.
I much prefer this alternative version of their poster.
Meanwhile on the BBC Politics show this lunchtime, Lib/Dem treasury spokesman Vince Cable was forced to admit that his party's poster claiming that the Conservatives would put up VAT was pure conjecture and that he couldn't rule out putting up VAT either. Hat tip to Conservative Home for this extract from a transcript of the show:
JON SOPEL: I mean let’s leave aside whether or whether not there is a black hole in the Tories' finances. Leave that to one side. You don’t know factually, that they are going to raise VAT. That is your conjecture.
VINCE CABLE: It is a conjecture and it’s a reasonable assumption and I wouldn’t claim anymore than that.
JON SOPEL: And that £389 is a rough figure plucked –
VINCE CABLE: It’s a ball park estimate of what it would require in order to fill that gap, and it seems a reasonable way of expressing that argument."
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JON SOPEL: Would you rule out raising VAT?
VINCE CABLE: No, I don’t. It’s something –
JON SOPEL: So therefore your position is no different to them."
You can read a Press Association summary of the interview here, and see a Conservative Home alternative version of the poster here.
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