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A brief guide to election night 02:47am on 02 May 2008 Nick,

I think Millibands reaction when told the Labour party now needs to start "listening" is breathtakingly arrogant and shows just out of touch MP's are.

He said that they (the Labour party) need to project a lot better THEIR message and ideas!

You need to advise him that the word "listen" (to our needs and ideas) does not mean "dictate" , "ignore" them or carry on as we have done because we know best!

Incredible.
A brief guide to election night 02:07am on 02 May 2008 Charles,

"people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do".

Such as?

Removed the tax break on Pension funds which has caused meltdown and destroyed many a pension funds value built over decades by the often low paid.

Removed the ceiling on NI (ie a tax increase)

Removed the Married Mans tax allowance.

The loss of NH dentists.

GP's contracts that mean they are not open until 09.30 closed at 12.00, open at 14.00 close at 16.30!

Removed the average earnings link for pensioners.

Allowed a huge increase in open door immigration on the excuse it's good for the economy because they will take low paid jobs others will not touch, yet we have millions of our own claiming benefits that can work but will not!

My children now get only 6 weeks to learn to swim in school!

They will now have to take on huge debt in order to go on to higher/further education.

He claims to have hugely reduced child poverty, yet by giving all that extra money to non working parents simply means they top up their mobiles more often and subscribe to Sky TV!(yes in our area that is what they do with the rises!)

Claiming crime is DOWN when it simply (again in our area) it is people have stopped reporting criminal events because the police will not attend as crimes such as stolen bicycles, shed break ins etc are "minor" and they are bombarded with messages that the prisons are full and they are letting people out early!!

He continues to sell a lie that by saving for a pension you will be better off yet it is clear you will end up in a nursing home, means tested sat next to a guy that has never paid a penny into any pot who will eat the same food and watch the same TV as you, the life long pension saver!

Meanwhile, tax, work, stealth, work,put back retirement age,work....meanwhile the non working millions continue to be fed,clothed and housed for free and have no sense of moral responsibility to contribute apart from a conveyor belt of more and more children to follow in their footsteps...

He calls this a success on child poverty.

If you think Inflation is truly 2.5%, or that crime is down or that the NHS (incl dentists, GPs etc) are now a lot better and in safe hands then that is fine but I feel the "spin" on this washer is now to well warn to rely on any more...
A brief guide to election night 01:16am on 02 May 2008 Nick,

Can't believe Tessa truly thinks the Labour MP's are NOT out of touch with joe public.

Does they not realise that those in work have broken backs regarding a never ending increase in total tax both direct and stealth.

The public trying to deal with huge rises across the board on all sorts of goods,services and basic food and fuel bills, that they see rising almost daily and yet the Labour Govt still use clearly fiddles inflation CPI figures.

We (middle England) look up and see the rich get richer paying/avoiding taxes and looking down at millions of non working,benefit claimers who in lots of cases are on 3rd generation non working,non contributing and we are funding them ...

I do not care (and many of my friends and family feel the same) what colour flag flys over Westminster but the party that cracks the above points, that realises that you can only squeeze so much from a pint pot and senses that MP's continuing to feed in the trough of high wages and huge expense claims, really is a kick in the teeth and hypocritical and indefensible, will get our vote.

Question is, is there a party out their tonight that does understand the British middle England just can't take anymore, we have nothing left to give???

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