Who Goes Home?

In what the BBC describes as ‘a speech outlining his values’ – Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband demonstrated that his taste for hypocrisy is at least as insatiable as that of his rival Ed Balls.

Last week Balls distanced himself from Labour’s open-door immigration policy claiming it was someone else’s idea.! But for sheer audacity alone Miliband specimen (b) has to be the clear winner. Miliband demanded….

The government must do more to reduce the pay gap between rich and poor

This from the man who’s party presided over the biggest widening of the rich/poor divide for 13 years! As if this wasn’t enough to make us choke with disdain, he called for….

the coalition’s public sector High Pay Commission to widen its scope to look at the private sector, saying wage differences were “high”.

Again, the hypocrisy is beyond all reason, it was Miliband’s government that flung bundle’s of taxpayers cash at NHS managers in unearned bonuses and pay rises. They encouraged local authorities to recruit useless officers with titles such as ‘diversity’ and ‘outreach’, some on six figure salaries! So to hit out at well paid private business executives who’s salaries are scrutinised by their own discerning shareholders is quite the most class envious callous act we could possibly imagine.

Milliband called for a debate about private sector pay in the business world….

He said: “When a nurse earns less in a year than a banker earns in a week and it’s the banker that caused the credit crunch, and the gap grows wider every year, it is unjust, it is bad for society, it is bad for our economy and we should say so.

“And this leads us to conclusions we have shied away from. We need to talk about the top of society.

“The differentials of 80, 100 or more between those at the top of a company and those at the bottom are just too high and we should say it.

“Some people will say that the market justifies this. Personally, I don’t believe it because many of these rewards come from cosy remuneration committees where the chips are stacked on one side.

There is little doubt that Miliband jnr is lining himself up to be the champion of the disaffected and angry public sector workers who feel the coalition government and most of the public are expecting them to take the brunt of the imminent savage cuts. The simple fact is, for far too long Labour’s profligacy officers encouraged public sector recruitment and feckless spending increases year on year. It got out of control as brilliantly described here by Jeff Randall. Now it has to be reigned in and Miliband sees an opportunity to gain a large support base of public sector workers who were nothing but pawns in Labour’s gerrymandering recruitment policy.

The Business world can never trust Ed Miliband. At the Copenhagen climate change hoaxfest, he relished in the trillion’s of pounds in extra taxes he envisaged dumping on our private sector in order to pay for thousands of non- jobs and Labour votes guaranteed from government carbon emissions officers and quangocrats.