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Monday, 1 November 2010

Massive Labour 'fail' - ignored of course by the BBC

The Labour party's 2010 general election manifesto included this on page 2:3 (page 20 of pdf):
'Our goal is to make responsibility the cornerstone of our welfare state. Housing Benefit will be reformed to ensure that we do not subsidise people to live in the private sector on rents that other ordinary working families could not afford. And we will continue to crack down on those who try to cheat the benefit system.'
Let's look at the central part of that again in bold:
'Housing Benefit will be reformed to ensure that we do not subsidise people to live in the private sector on rents that other ordinary working families could not afford.'

Does the phrase 'bloody hypocrites' begin to describe the Labour shadow cabinet, Labour MPs, Labour supporting columnists and the BBC who have attacked the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition for doing just what Labour promised to do?

Are the BBC unaware of this extract from the Labour manifesto? If so then why are they so out of touch? If they are aware then do they not consider it to be newsworthy?

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