Ed Milliband Says The Right Things.

Ed Milliband, during his keynote speech at the Labour conference today, said all the right things. For the first time a politician in this country has managed to distinguish between business that strips assets and business that actually creates something. I believe it - the question is, does he? The message was loud and clear, but lost some of its impact because it was delivered by the less well known of the Milliband brothers. He did, however, score a telling point. You really, really can't trust the Tories on the NHS and this is one battlefield on which the Tories are in an undefensible position. They lied and everyone knows it. The question is how will the Tories deflect attention away from this? Another "listening" exercise? We asked a leading Tory, who wished to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, for his take on it. "We broke no promises over the NHS. We said we wouldn't impose a "top-down" solution and we haven't. We consulted widely an what we should do, ignored what everyone else thought and went ahead. When those people we consulted objected to this we consulted again, carefully positioning a finger in each ear and repeating over and over "lah, lah, lah." I can't see what else, as Tories, we could have done. In terms of drawing attention away from this I strongly urge the Prime Minister to attack Syria immediately with our newly constituted longbow squadrons - he can order such an attack from his villa in Tuscany quite easily. As to buisness, it's clear that Labour is anti-business since they seem to want an economy that is closed to those predatory asset strippers who provide a valuable service for Britian - keeping unemployment high."