Walaa's Weekly Wrap-Up ~ October 26, 2013

Delighted Andrew Mitchell received some form of an apology. Thought I would have liked a little bit more funfair – after all the man has lost his job due to a fabricated deliberate lie. Nonetheless it’s an apology! Time to learn from the whole incident and move on, however and in my humble opinion, he still deserves a promotion and a great post in government, maybe something international.

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It always fascinates me when people mostly politicos, say Cameron has not responded to Miliband’s this or the other. But wait a minute. Isn’t Cameron the Prime Minster? Then he does not have or need to respond to the leader of the opposition’s dreamt up policies. Why? Because the opposition does not make the policies, the government does.

So all this fuss over Miliband’s promise of an energy freeze is just a waste of time and we all know why. Oppositions can promise the moon and the stars and don’t have to deliver either. We all know it and Miliband does too. Let’s put to one side that between now and 2015 energy companies will make all the increases they need to cover them until 2017. And even then Miliband can give a million and one reasons as to why the freeze it is not feasible and can’t be delivered.

Sadly we will never truly find out, because Labour will not win in 2015.

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Cameron is very cleaver, I keep saying it and people keep dismissing it. His promise to reduce green taxes, is a very shrewd business and political move and it’s a win, win.

Yes he hugged a Husky and said ‘Vote Blue Go Green’ but that was in 2006 when energy cost was less and heating bills were lower, money was better then and nobody anticipated old and vulnerable people had to choose between heating and eating.

Today all that has changed. Cameron will be an evil man if he sat and did nothing. So, promising to look at and possibly reducing green levies is 1) a viable economic solution – reducing is not doing away with then, it is just decreasing them. 2) who will dare at the risk of appearing callous and cruel to object to reducing heating bills at this austere times.

On Wednesday, Cameron showed he is the leader of the people, the one who cares and carefully considers what he says before saying it. Because his promises aren’t just for show and sensational headlines, they are real and policy making material.

Can’t say the same about the Milibrother

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