Mandy says Labour to fight election on their economic record
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Mandelson urges Labour fightback
Lord Mandelson has said Labour must "roll its sleeves up" and take the fight to the Conservatives instead of handing them victory "on a plate".
The business secretary suggested the general election would come down to "the substance of Gordon Brown versus the shallowness of David Cameron".
Writing in the News Of The World, he indicated Labour would fight the poll on the basis of its economic record.
And Mr Brown stepping down before the election was "not an option", he added.
Lord Mandelson said the prime minister "averted a Great Depression" when the banks were rescued last year.
Recognising that Labour was adrift in the polls, Lord Mandelson - who has become one of Gordon Brown's closest allies since his return to government - said: "Do we shrug our shoulders, accept our fate and meekly hand over power to an arrogant Conservative Party which believes it can do nothing, sit back and be given power on a plate? Or do we fight back?
"When we come back in the autumn, the party needs to roll its sleeves up, pull together and concentrate."
He said Labour would continue go on the offensive over the Tories' public spending proposals in the run-up to an expected spring ballot.
"The next general election will not simply be a referendum on the government," he said.
"In the long run-up to that election, the public will be faced with a choice between a government that will try to do everything it can to protect our frontline public services, and a Conservative Party whose appetite for deep and savage spending cuts seems to have been well and truly whetted."
'Totally winnable'
Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has also talked up Labour's chances of success at the next election.
He told the Sunday Mirror: "The more people scrutinise David Cameron, the more they will realise he is an empty vessel.
"I still believe the next election is totally winnable for us. We can come back as the underdogs with Gordon Brown as the Comeback Kid and win."
Meanwhile, a survey suggests the Conservatives' lead over Labour is even stronger in key marginal seats than in the rest of the country.
The poll, conducted in 30 constituencies, put the Tories on 44%, Labour on 20% and the Liberal Democrats on 18%.
The survey of 1,004 voters was carried out by Crosby/Textor/Pepper for aviation lobby group FlyingMatters, and appears in the Sunday Telegraph.
A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph on Friday put the Conservatives at 41% across the country as a whole compared to 27% for Labour.
They still don't get it!
Lord Mandelson has said Labour must "roll its sleeves up" and take the fight to the Conservatives instead of handing them victory "on a plate".
The business secretary suggested the general election would come down to "the substance of Gordon Brown versus the shallowness of David Cameron".
Writing in the News Of The World, he indicated Labour would fight the poll on the basis of its economic record.
And Mr Brown stepping down before the election was "not an option", he added.
Lord Mandelson said the prime minister "averted a Great Depression" when the banks were rescued last year.
Recognising that Labour was adrift in the polls, Lord Mandelson - who has become one of Gordon Brown's closest allies since his return to government - said: "Do we shrug our shoulders, accept our fate and meekly hand over power to an arrogant Conservative Party which believes it can do nothing, sit back and be given power on a plate? Or do we fight back?
"When we come back in the autumn, the party needs to roll its sleeves up, pull together and concentrate."
He said Labour would continue go on the offensive over the Tories' public spending proposals in the run-up to an expected spring ballot.
"The next general election will not simply be a referendum on the government," he said.
"In the long run-up to that election, the public will be faced with a choice between a government that will try to do everything it can to protect our frontline public services, and a Conservative Party whose appetite for deep and savage spending cuts seems to have been well and truly whetted."
'Totally winnable'
Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has also talked up Labour's chances of success at the next election.
He told the Sunday Mirror: "The more people scrutinise David Cameron, the more they will realise he is an empty vessel.
"I still believe the next election is totally winnable for us. We can come back as the underdogs with Gordon Brown as the Comeback Kid and win."
Meanwhile, a survey suggests the Conservatives' lead over Labour is even stronger in key marginal seats than in the rest of the country.
The poll, conducted in 30 constituencies, put the Tories on 44%, Labour on 20% and the Liberal Democrats on 18%.
The survey of 1,004 voters was carried out by Crosby/Textor/Pepper for aviation lobby group FlyingMatters, and appears in the Sunday Telegraph.
A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph on Friday put the Conservatives at 41% across the country as a whole compared to 27% for Labour.
They still don't get it!
Economic record? What is he referring to? Their record government borrowing? Gordon has pissed so much money up the wall so fast that this so-called government has borrowed more money (from our grand-children) than every previous government put together.
"We are the party of the colossal economic cluster f
k".
It makes me quite angry to think that my little kid owes £40,000 before he has even started school. And, if he wants a degree, that will double. Before he has even begun his career.
"We are the party of the colossal economic cluster f
k".It makes me quite angry to think that my little kid owes £40,000 before he has even started school. And, if he wants a degree, that will double. Before he has even begun his career.
SkinnyBoy said:
Don't forget the mouthbreather uberclass they created during their tenure will vote for them. They might still win it.
Even if people support Labour, they won't vote for Gordon Brown. He's too bloody minded and selfish to see it. He genuinely won't understand why he lost when he wakes up as loser on the morning after the election.The best weapon the Conservatives have is Gordon Brown.
I try to imagine coming back to live in the UK, and honestly I can't at this moment in time think of anything bar a death in my family (touch wood) that would drag me back. I can't wait for the election to come, if they win again i promise to come back and personally dispatch each and everyone of them V for Vendetta style!
SkinnyBoy said:
I try to imagine coming back to live in the UK, and honestly I can't at this moment in time think of anything bar a death in my family (touch wood) that would drag me back. I can't wait for the election to come, if they win again i promise to come back and personally dispatch each and everyone of them V for Vendetta style!
I'm with yoiu SB - I'm simply waiting for the shift to a country that is run by common sense from experience.Hopefully Cameron will appoint a cabinet with both - then I'll come home.
littlegreenfairy said:
Is he utterly delusional?!
Would suggest he's more than aware they will get the daylights beaten out of them at the ballot box in 2010, Senator Palpatine / Lord Mandelson is no doubt moving things into place to allow him to grasp control in 2014/15The current policy releases are part of the sorched earth policy he's persuaded winky would be a good idea. . . . . . . . . Think Hanibal Lecter in silence of the lambs, getting people to cut off their own faces or choke to death on their tongues
SkinnyBoy said:
I try to imagine coming back to live in the UK, and honestly I can't at this moment in time think of anything bar a death in my family (touch wood) that would drag me back. I can't wait for the election to come, if they win again i promise to come back and personally dispatch each and everyone of them V for Vendetta style!
What would be quite something - a mass rally at Westminster in the Guido Fawkes masks. It might make the arrogant twunts realise that they are on borrowed time.Mondeohdear said:
SkinnyBoy said:
I try to imagine coming back to live in the UK, and honestly I can't at this moment in time think of anything bar a death in my family (touch wood) that would drag me back. I can't wait for the election to come, if they win again i promise to come back and personally dispatch each and everyone of them V for Vendetta style!
What would be quite something - a mass rally at Westminster in the Guido Fawkes masks. It might make the arrogant twunts realise that they are on borrowed time.te can spunk up mine and everyone elses hard earned on their communist manifesto. How these cretins manage to stay in power is mind boggling. Whats needed is a tipping point, if they win the next election that will be the start. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of like minded individuals that can be corralled by underground railroad to off these bds one by one. One word, singularity.
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