Chuka Umunna - Should I Hold My Breath?

      Do you remember before the last election when the Tories, in opposition, refused to say what they would do when in power viz-a-vis the economy?   They said they couldn't make policy as they didn't know what the financial situation would be like a few years into the future - it would be unfair to ask them to do so.

      Do you also remember the Labour benches taking the mickey out of the Tories as a party with no solutions and no policies - how could anyone vote for them?   You know how it goes I'm sure.

     Well, lo and behold, Chuka Umunna, the Shadow Business Secretary, on Radio 5 Live with Victoria Derbyshire yesterday - he turned Tory.   Admittedly he didn't sound his usual confident self, being hesitant with some of his answers.  However, one of things he was very strident and confident about, is that it is too early in the cycle, for Labour to make any economic, fiscal or tax policies, this far in advance of the 2015 election.   Ummmm...... has he really turned Tory, or is he just hypocritical.....ummmmmm.....the latter methinks.

Chuka Umunna - a hypocrite?

      Mr Umunna, wake up and smell the coffee.   We the disenfranchised are partly so because we are fed up with people like you playing the politics of self-interest, and offering us nothing to believe in.   Are you so incapable of telling us that if you wouldn't do what the Tories are doing or planning to do, but that in similar circumstance you would do this, that, or A, B or even C.   We know what you won't do - tell me please  not only what you would do, but how you would do it.   At the moment you are just a Tory with a red rose.  In other words a hypocrite.

      So Mr Umunna, here is your chance to put the record straight, to be a hero of the people, for your stock to rise in the Labour Party, to show that you and Labour are really different and worth voting back into power.   Tell me, what would you do that is so different from the Tories, not generalities that even I could spout and means nothing, but real concrete action.   How will you reduce the deficit and where will you make cuts.  Yes apparently you have identified another £6 billion of saving in the MOD, but where, which part, and why isn't that needed anymore.  Labour say that the Tories are cutting everything and yet you lot say you wouldn't make cuts here, there and everywhere, so I ask, what is left to cut that you say you wont cut?   I'm waiting Mr Umunna, should I hold my breath?   Yes, maybe the Tories are cutting too deep too quick, but which 'bit' would you cut slower and less deep, and how long would this extend the period until recovery is achieved.   I'm waiting Mr Umunna, I'm waiting.   Should I hold my breath?

      How do you propose to start growth in the economy without reverting to the Blair/Brown/Balls/Milliband ethos of borrowing beyond our means, and spend spend spending for votes.   Wouldn't that just increase the debt let alone the deficit.  Tell me Mr Umunna, I'm waiting, shall I hold my breath?

      If the Tories where a party of no policy or ideas when in opposition, and you are using the same trick and argument today, can not the same be said of Labour and you today.   Aren't you just playing at politics for self-interest and not for the greater good.   Are you not just another Labour/Tory/FibDem fraud and not worthy of anyones vote, let alone mine.   I invite you to reply on this forum to put matters right.  No smoke and mirrors please, we only have honesty here.

    One last thing Mr Umunna, while you were spouting hypocritical words on air to the nation on Radio 5 Live, saying it is too early to produce economic/fiscal/tax policies, your leader (sic!) was giving a 'big'  speech in Bedford in his and the Labour Party's most significant economic policy announcement to date about a Mansion Tax and a 10p tax rate.   Don't you know what is going on even within your own party?   Explain please:  Should I hold my breath Mr Umunna while I wait for enlightenment?

Sam