Ex Lion Tamer

I'm sorry if the tourism guy has to change his business model but it's worth it to protect the people who are being exploited

Ed rallying now. That economy section was horrific though. The public doesnt understand economics, and labour isn't trying to explain it

OK thanks, I was genuinely asking the question rather than trying to prove a point

The guy comparing the national economy to him buying a pint really was depressing

Mili certainly having a hard time here

You could argue is hyperbole but it's not an outright lie

But you can't give any examples

This may well just be my bias but I can't think when labour mislead people like this (under miliband)?

Cameron saying that our budget deficit was bigger than Greece, ignoring the fact that our economy is much bigger than theirs. The way he misleads people on complex economic issues is despicable

And yet that's where they put labour and the lib dems! https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

I struggle to imagine what kind of psycho would be further out into the blue territory

My recollection of this in the past is that no one comes out right wing https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-5.38&soc=-4.51

I think I'm right in saying that if Labour wins the election it will be the first time the Sun hasn't backed the winner (or something like that anyway). That said, their campaign against Labour doesn't seem particularly to be following public opinion when Labour is supported by in excess of 30% of the electorate

More evidence for Whitey Grandad http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2015/apr/29/election-2015-miliband-tory-12bn-welfare-cuts-russell-brand-interview-live#block-5540fbe3e4b090ea3d998578

The trade unions are membership organisations paid for by ordinary people and with elected leaders. Tory donors are unelected rich people whose sole focus is making money for themselves and their shareholders. In not saying the unions always have it right but the two aren't really comparable

https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/593016296540868608

The tripartite system was effectively a deregulation. "In 1997, The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the deregulation of the banks and other financial institutions. They freed the Bank of England from direct government control and removed the power by the Bank of England (and therefore by the government) from controlling the financial activities of banks in the UK." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation

Exactly. As much as I think some of Brand's views are idiotic, its arrogant of Cameron to simply dismiss him and his followers as a joke rather than engage and try to explain his arguments to them. But then that's sort of what Cameron is doing with all the parties, scaremongering rather than engaging with the policy.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/27/poorest-hit-hardest-coalition-changes-report

It was meant as two separate points, tories on one hand and a misguided blairite labour government that got too close to big business (and sucked into the economic orthodoxy) on the other

I agree they should have regulated the banks more. Labour was too right wing at that time

I didn't agree with that either!

Tory policies hit the poorest hardest, and wealthy bankers get off scot free for tanking the economy, but it only gets called class warfare when someone dares to complain about it

PS: Ukip has more men called Dave or Steve than it has women http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/ukip-has-more-men-called-dave-or-steve-than-it-has-women--xy8_P6r6wx