Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Poor Milliband – Off on the wrong foot AGAIN!
Myleene Klass ‘goes full Paxman’ on Ed Miliband over mansion tax
Singer tells the Labour leader his ‘disturbing’ plan to impose a levy on £2m-plus homes would hit ‘little grannies’. She was supported by fellow guest, former ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, who said: “You’re going to screw me royally.†Following the spat, bookmaker Coral gave odds of 5-1 that Klass would become the next presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight, 20-1 she would become a Tory MP, and 33-1 that she would become a Labour one :-)
Posted by alan @ 08:46 PM (4513 views)
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Alan Lubin says:
I thought she made a complete fool of herself and so could see her as a perfect fit for any of those roles. I’d give 2-1 on her joining UKIP because that’s where the most clueless, rent-a-gobs end up.
libertas says:
Myeleene was way sexy there. Nothing like a confident, intelligent woman. Beat Miliband to a pulp.
She is right. Pumping more money into the NHS will not help, and the rich find ways to avoid taxes, and so taxing them more will just give cash to accountants plus, the upper middle class paying these taxes are already taxed way more than any other group.
How about not offering FREE NHS to all European visitors? Even non-EU residents at UK Universities get free NHS. It is absurd. My partner is from USA. She had private healthcare, would have purchased it here at Uni, but they said heck, no, we’ll pay. A colleague of mine is from S.Africa. His father came over, needed Prozac, and NHS said hey, we’ll give it free when they ran out, and yet they offered to pay but it was given.
And a lack of tax is the problem? Give me a break!!
hpwatcher says:
Miliband is actually a very competent politician;, but a lot of the media have it in for him at the moment.
There is no doubt, his performance against Cameron – during question time – has been excellent.
Don’t forget, he was the one that effectively stopped the US from bombing Assad in Syria….and goodness knows where ISIS would be if that had happened – running the whole country no doubt. I think he should remind people of that fact a little bit more.
alan says:
hpwatcher,
Milliband has trained himself to face Cameron. He has surely spent ages preparing himelf for these debates. He didn’t demonstrate that he had many interviews with sensible folk (but he probably did some, once). Too many of his televised sessions are “fixed up” with the right amount of young diverse cultural people who all know how to smile at the right time.
My local MP would give sensible answers as he is often in town and talks to anyone who comes up to him. He also has a degree of conviction, which I feel Milliband and other career politicians lack. I thought the question Myleen asked at the end was superb – something like – “shouldn’t you be saying how your going to fix it”?
All my friends in the NHS have ideas how to save NHS money or stop losing it. Alas, the NHS is a political football. I don’t feel spiteful towards Milliband and his ilk, just a big, big sense of loss. Too, too many missed opportunities…..”if only…”.
I would encourage irate posters on the site to write sensible, logical letters to their local MPs. I’m waiting till tomorrow to do mine. The Kent result will focus a lot of minds, I’m sure.
doomwatch says:
@libertas “How about not offering FREE NHS to all European visitors?”
Do you not hold an EHIC card then ?!
mountain goat says:
Well what else would you expect a celebrity to say about a new tax she has to pay. As for grannies living alone in a £2 million house, while whole families are struggling to find affordable homes, what more is there to say…
Striebs says:
Ed Milliband seems a nice enough chap and one can forgive him for the balls up which is the 2008 Climate Change act as the whole political spectrum supported it .
Like Brown he’s likely to make a basic error like announcing the intention to sell gold before actually doing so because he has no experience of the real world .
What concerns me is that like most lefties he has an authoritian streak . I’m sure he is very aware of this but can he trust himself to keep it in check or would he go power mad ?
sneaker says:
She came in …. like a wrecking ball !!!
Smiley says:
This whole debate is a bit ridiculous.
The mansion tax will only be paid by multi-millionairres (hence the £2m threshold). Further, most of them have made their millions through asset price inflation, caused by monetary policy (ie, not hard work).
So, if multi-millionairres who didn’t earn their money don’t deserve to pay extra tax, then who on earth should? And how on earth will the deficit ever be reduced?
clockslinger says:
It wasn’t so bad for Mr Milliband, and at least he wasn’t ****struck by Mayleene (is that a stage name?) unlike some of you, apparently.
I’m afraid that if anyone else thinks that was a good tongue lashing, Dr Slinger advises you stop visiting this site and go outside more, or look for better tongue immediately.
flashman says:
clockslinger, I think you might be letting your party preferences get the better of your perversion. Milliband looked like a plank and her name is Myleene.
hpwatcher says:
mostly it’s down to cup size
An extremely sexist comment.
letthemfall says:
Wealthy pop star attacks wealth tax shock. So this is political debate in this country – some dull celeb churns out someone else’s excuses (granny tax) and makes stupid comments about taxing a glass of water. Just watched the video (for which we have to get past an ad now) and I don’t think Milliband looked that bad, certainly not compared to Klass who looks and sounds like a soap character. No doubt she supports the bedroom tax though.
flashman says:
I think she might be ever so slightly more accomplished than implied by the tag ‘celeb’ and he might be slightly less accomplished than implied by the title ‘party leader’. It’s possible that Labour have another Michael Foot on their hands. I genuinely couldn’t care less who gets in next but I think Labour needs to address a particular concern highlighted by this otherwise meaningless encounter. I think a sizeable portion of the electorate ( including some Labour supporters) suspect that Labour have a tendency to chuck money at things in lieu of actually fixing what’s wrong. Whether that’s right or wrong, Labour will need to address it in the same way that they recently attempted to fix the perception that they’re soft on immigration.
letthemfall says:
Not on the evidence of that particular exchange. I read that she is classically trained, so in that respect (assuming she completed the course) she is highly accomplished, which begs the question why she became part of a light pop outfit. Yes may not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but Rick Wakeman certainly made good use of his training.
flashman says:
I didn’t mean to get into debating the merits of Myleene and I admit that I had to Google her. Apparently she’s released two classical albums and become a successful presenter after having a few big pop hits. While watching the news yesterday, I was confronted with a very fat woman on a helicopter moaning about feing sick. I’m told that despite having no achievements, she’s a celeb, so it occurred to me that its only fair to afford Myleen a higher status. Funny enough I was listening to some Rick Wakeman last weekend. It goes without saying that he should be afforded an even higher status than Myleene.
mountain goat says:
It does expose EM as just another politician afraid of telling the truth for fear of offending a single person. Why didn’t he come out and say “as Labour leader my job is to make people who are well off contribute more to society. And yes you are right that the oligarch’s are untouchable and won’t pay this tax, but who else will fund my election campaign now that we have told the unions to get lost?”
pete green says:
The most important part of this article is it has some sensible analysis:
“The Institute for Fiscal Studies says there is “sensible logic underpinning itâ€: property should be taxed. You can debate the mechanics, such as increasing council tax bands or making this a temporary step towards land value tax.”
“The sweat of our brow is taxed but not the unearned, undeserved windfalls from damaging property bubbles. ”
That this celeb uses the old widow in a mansion ‘Killer argument against Land Value Tax’ is telling and the solution is simple just roll it up and charge it against the estate on death.