Labour and Business
As the Daily Telegraph pointed out recently,
"There seems to be little need for the Conservatives to criticise Labour any more. Labour does the job for them."
Mary Creagh, who did not get enough nominations to stand to be leader of the Labour party, has revealed a story of what happened late last year, when Labour was considering adopting the policy of devolving the regulation of bus services.
Ms Creagh, then shadow transport secretary, supported the policy on her view of its' merits but realised that it might have an impact upon service providers’ profits.
She therefore, as an act of courtesy, telephoned the bus companies to brief them.
Miliband's office asked Mary Creagh why she had done this. She explained that A Labour government would need to work closely with the bus companies of they were implementing such a policy to see that everything went to plan.
But, complained the leadership, what they really wanted to do was “pick a fight” with the service providers to give the impression that Labour was taking on vested interests.
Ed Miliband and his close associates were more interested in the political benefit they thought they would get from manufacturing a row with business than with the nuts and bolts of whether the policy would actually work or benefit consumers.
You can read the story at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11672892/Labour-shows-that-it-is-no-friend-to-working-people.html
An excellent illustration of why the Labour party under Ed Miliban's leadership was not fit to run the country and would have been a disaster if they had been elected last month.
"There seems to be little need for the Conservatives to criticise Labour any more. Labour does the job for them."
Mary Creagh, who did not get enough nominations to stand to be leader of the Labour party, has revealed a story of what happened late last year, when Labour was considering adopting the policy of devolving the regulation of bus services.
Ms Creagh, then shadow transport secretary, supported the policy on her view of its' merits but realised that it might have an impact upon service providers’ profits.
She therefore, as an act of courtesy, telephoned the bus companies to brief them.
Miliband's office asked Mary Creagh why she had done this. She explained that A Labour government would need to work closely with the bus companies of they were implementing such a policy to see that everything went to plan.
But, complained the leadership, what they really wanted to do was “pick a fight” with the service providers to give the impression that Labour was taking on vested interests.
Ed Miliband and his close associates were more interested in the political benefit they thought they would get from manufacturing a row with business than with the nuts and bolts of whether the policy would actually work or benefit consumers.
You can read the story at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11672892/Labour-shows-that-it-is-no-friend-to-working-people.html
An excellent illustration of why the Labour party under Ed Miliban's leadership was not fit to run the country and would have been a disaster if they had been elected last month.
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