Quote of the day 5th February 2015

"Bill Somebody's not a person - Bill somebody is Labour's policy!"

(David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions yesterday, after the previous evening on Newsnight Ed Balls, Labour shadow chancellor, had failed to remember the full name of any prominent businessmen who supported Labour and referred to "Bill Somebody")



John Rentoul suggests in the Independent here

"That the shadow chancellor could not be bothered to do a bit of basic homework for a television interview suggests that he has given up on the election. And that is really bad news for Labour."

Comments

Jim said…
Isn't he the person in every house who gets the mail.

Every time you look at mail its all either junk mail or Bill's
5:13 pm
Jim said…
lets just look at Ed's question and forget point scoring answers.

"Mr Speaker, everyone pays stamp duty on stock market transactions, except hedge funds who are allowed to avoid it, costing hundreds of millions of pounds, why is the prime minister refusing to act on this?"

he raises a good point here, its a good question. Why are only hedge funds exempt this horrible tax, when every one else should be? I applaud Ed for this question looking to end stamp duty so it does not cost people many hundreds of millions of pounds.

I admit that the PM does say that labour also failed to stop stop stamp duty in 13 years, which is fair, he then says this government has done more than any other to make sure people pay taxes properly but never mentions how he has cut that tax burden. then he gets on about a telly interview.

Ed raises the ball game here, he reminds the PM why he is there.

"Mr Speaker, this is Prime Ministers questions and he should try and answer the question"
- right on Ed, I'm with you here

Now, I asked him a very specific question, I asked him a very specific question"
- well dont over do this Eddy, you only asked it once

"about why hedge funds are exempt stamp duty on stock market transactions, its costing hundreds of millions of pounds, he's being funded to the tune of 47 million pounds by the hedge funds, thats, every one knows that's why he is refusing to act, but what is his explanation?"

- erm, pssst, Eddy, Pssst - erm what?, we were just trying to end stamp duty yeah?, where you going son? oh sod it I'm going home.........


6:24 pm
Jim said…
Mind you Ed is a man who wanted a legislatively applied freeze on gas prices just as they were at their peak. hmmmm not much there then.

though i must add i am also not impressed by the "freeze on fuel duty" from the coalition, thats not a freeze on prices granted, its just a freeze on an extra tax imposed for no reason which is on top of the fuel price, and then they have the nerve to want VAT on both the fuel and VAT on the BLOOMING DUTY
7:59 pm
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