Labour

[Silver_Shiney]

In fairness, David, other MPs talk over other people too.

[david63]

Not to the extent that he was doing it last night

[Silver_Shiney]

Can't comment on last night, as I didn't watch it, but have you seen them on the Andrew Marr show? Some of them make me wonder if their good manners have been surgically removed.

[Frank Manning]

It seems to me that a lot of people on here are sleep walking towards putting Ed Balls back in charge of the economy. They cant take the medicine so they go back to a party addicted to borrow and spend, they will only have to do cold turkey all over again when Balls achieves the implications which his name suggests and we go back into economic rehab again with the Tories or LibDems. It is high time the constituency boundaries were equalled up so that there is not the current inherent balance in favour of that shower of whingers. We have not heard of a single coherent economic policy from either them or UKIP so far, and that is by far the most important thing facing this country (with or without Scotland).

[Silver_Shiney]

You may not get a coherent economic policy from UKIP, you certainly won't from the Communi... sorry, Labour party.

[Kendhni]

Wow, so Labour has an entire advert to state their policies, sell themselves to the British public and show that they had learned from the mes they created when they last held government ... but at the end I still have no idea of what their policies are .. because they told us nothing about themselves. Nothing new there then, they haven't had any polices since Ed Millibrain took over, and I suspect they don't have the political ability or competence to create any.

[Frank Manning]

That's a bit strong Ken....they are just in hock to trade unions who are selecting the twerps at the top. I may sound like a dyed in the wool Tory, but I am a left leaning centreist who just trusts the Tories with the economy more than Ed Balls, I trust UKIP even less. Dont get me started on Harriet Harperson, and Millibrain. But Labour do have and have had, some good people, Frank Field, John Denham, Jack Straw for example and we have a lot to thank Clem Attlee and the post war Labour party for.

I am not into Tory/Eton bashing, Union bashing, or the politics of envy. I just want my country governed properly please. No war criminals, and no handbagging!

[Kendhni]

You are probably right Frank, although to be fair Gordon Brown was struggling to find any political talent in his party that he could trust and had to go outside of his ranks to get the talent ... it just annoys me that when a political party is given an opportunity to sell themselves to the electorate, they squander it. Yes it probably will appeal to the dumbed down ill-informed mentality that passes as political opinion these days, but apart from being mildly amusing it had zero content.

Like yourself I would be slightly right of centre ... but to someone sitting on the loony fringes of the left that will always look right wing

[ITWA Travel Writer]

Help required here please.

How do you tell the difference between the Tories and Labour these days? At least in Scotland we have the small but re-emergence of the old Labour Standards in the form of Tommy Sheridan, when he’s not in prison!!

By the way, 1955 was the last time we here in Scotland voted for a Conservative Government. By 1997 they were completely disseminated.

[david63]

Help required here please.

How do you tell the difference between the Tories and Labour these days?

Can I think about that one?

[Delboy]

Help required here please.

How do you tell the difference between the Tories and Labour these days?

The same as always, one leaves the country in an economic mess, the other being left to get us out of it !!

[screwy]

Sorry Frank but to say Jack Straw and GOOD politician in the same sentence.??? This is the same man who stood in front of the POA and said that a Labour Gov would return ALL privatised Jails back to the Public Sector then signed up for 4 more private Jails upon coming to power.!!

The difference between the Tories and Labour is that the Tories will actually tell you their going to knife you in the back.