There’s a difference between living and surviving, Ed
Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, and Yvette Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, have launched an attack on the so-called London living wage – the £7.45 an hour recommended minimum for all workers in the capital. They claim it would be “artificial, inflationary” and not “necessary or appropriate.”
As a couple the woeful Balls and Cooper earn almost £240,000 a year. How’s that for ‘artificial, inflationary’ and not ‘necessary or appropriate’? When it’s being outflanked on the left on this issue by the likes of Boris Johnson you have to start asking just what is the bloody point of the Labour Party.
It was only a few weeks ago that Balls was declaring himself a Bevanite. Aneurin Bevan once said, ‘“I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.’ We await Balls’ future leadership bid with interest.
Posted on November 4th, 2008 at 1:10pm under New Labour
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You understate the hypocrisy of Balls and Cooper.
Very unlike you but maybe you are going to update at some point.
I obviously refer to B and C’s London allowances and their ’second home’.
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