polo mint Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Ed's main problem is, he is a Tory in all but name. Worth millions, like many in both the Political main Party's. NEW LIEbour require a man of the people at the head, someone like Austin Mitchell, Clive Betts or Dennis Skinner say. Back to the "working class roots" the LIEbour party came from. Angel. One wonders if Ed Balls would do anything about bankers and boardroom pay as his brother is clearly in the deep end of the trough. http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-09-12/top-pimco-directors-pay-hits-almost-26-m The highest paid director of Pimco Europe, the European arm of the world’s largest fixed-income manager, saw his pay package jump 173.8% last year to £25.6m. Pimco did not identify the director. It’s London office was opened in 1998 under the leadership of Joseph McDevitt, then executive vice-president of Pimco and now head of business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. McDevitt has headed the London office for 13 years and has grown Pimco Europe’s assets under management to $171.9bn as of June 2011, equal to 13% of the firm’s global assets under management. The highest paid director’s remuneration accounted for half of the 336% increase in pay packages for seven directors, which climbed from £11m to £48m in the year to December 31, 2010, according to documents filed at Companies House. The previous year the company had four directors. Last year William Benz II, Doug Hodge and Andrew Balls, brother of Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls, joined the board. Average pay among the 168 administrative staff excluding directors at Pimco Europe rose 62% last year to a total £120.6m as headcount increased by 16.7%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 Ed's main problem is, he is a Tory in all but name. Worth millions, like many in both the Political main Party's. NEW LIEbour require a man of the people at the head, someone like Austin Mitchell, Clive Betts or Dennis Skinner say. Back to the "working class roots" the LIEbour party came from. Angel. Do you think they'd be electable with The Beast in charge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodStar Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Brown's image did for him didn't it? Not withstanding he was a vile and incompetent individual. So who in the Labour Party is thick enough and pretty enough for the general public? I can't see the unions choosing a woman so that narrows it down a bit. Ed Balls is about as ugly as anyone can get and no country should ever be led by someone called Balls. So who else is there? David Milliband was pretty enough. How his brother won the toss I'll never know. With or without Ed the shed in charge I think New Labour are dead ducks. Now if Old Labour were resurrected, with a real old labour figure in charge, to appeal to and genuinely and passionately fight for the 'working classes' (say people earning up to 30k), I think they would romp home. We're living in hard times and they're probably only getting harder. New Labour and Conservatives will only ever look after their City friends, whilst trying very hard to pretend they feel the pain of the average voter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 wow the Tories must be having another bad month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoatwobbler Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 He's like Orville without Keith Harris. The Coalition knows that with Millibland at the helm there is no effective opposition. It's a pretty dreadful state of affairs when the Conservatives are increasingly reliant on everyone's bad experiences of the previous Labour government and Labour are similarly reliant on the Conservatives cocking up every single thing they touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This is unlikely as Crow has never been a Labour Party member, his union, the RMT, isn't affiliated to the Labour Party and it stood candidates against Labour at the European elections 3 years ago. He sounded very Labour when he was on Question Time and here it states how he used to be a member of the Socialist Labour Party. Communist Party and Socialist Labour Party Crow was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and then the Communist Party of Britain after the CPGB's dissolution, between 1983 and 1995, when he left to join Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party (SLP). He has since left the SLP, though he remains an admirer of Scargill,[2] and is no longer a member of any political party, although he gave his support to the now disbanded Socialist Alliance, and believes all socialist parties should unite.[2] In the 2005 general election, he endorsed Robert Griffiths, the Communist Party of Britain's candidate in Pontypridd, calling him "a champion of workers' rights".[8] Griffiths went on to win 233 votes (0.6%), coming in last place out of the six candidates. In the 2010 Local Election he publicly supported the directly elected Mayoral candidate in the London Borough of Hackney Monty Goldman and the candidate for Leabridge Ward Mick Carty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 At the time of the election I didn't think that Labour wanted win, they knew what this term was going to be like and wanted to be the ones moaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Do you think they'd be electable with The Beast in charge? Well they did have M. Foot at one time. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polo mint Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Well they did have M. Foot at one time. Angel. We'll take that as a no then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Graham Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Well they did have M. Foot at one time. Angel. Yep, and according to Wikipedia: A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918. Old Labour have been unelectable since 1979. New Labour have been unelectable since 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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