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Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to visit Telford
Tuesday 8th March 2011, 2:40PM GMT.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is to visit Telford to hear the views of “ordinary hard working families” about the economy.
A mailshot has been made to people in the town asking if they would like to meet with Mr Balls on March 17.
Telford’s Labour MP David Wright said today it would be a “listening event”.
Mr Balls says he wants to develop a plan for the economy that’s credible.
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At least someone’s listening. It doesn’t seem to matter how many protests take place against this government they don’t seem to listen. They haven’t even got a mandate for it. I never voted for cuts as quick and as deep as this.
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So one of the architects of the labour policies that have near destroyed this country now wants to ‘ listen’ what a hypocrite.
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IORN FLAG IT WAS NOT ONLY LABOUR THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS IT WAS THATCHER AND THE BANKS AND YUPPIES OF THE 70 YOU NUMPTE
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Mrs Thatcher ceased to be PM in 1990. I cannot see how you can possibly blame Mrs Thatcher or the Conservatives when we had a Labour government from 1997 till 2010 (thirteen years) – surely Labour had ample time to make any changes they deemed necessary to the banking sector?
What is “numpte”?
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do you not remember we had a shipbuilding and miners and car manufactring industry untill MAGGIE THATCHER the milk snatcher got her grubby conseritive hands on them and run this once great country into the ground that is except the rich and it is happening under COMPO and clegg The sooner we have another election the better we will all be
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In response to “thinker” – that would be because the unions destroyed those industries with strike action throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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I’d just like to know who to blame for the levels of literacy when thinker was at school, quite appalling
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Rusty flag at it again excuse me if I yawn!
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Iron Flag. I could not have put it better myself
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Nice to see Balls is still in denial.
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Ed wants our views, does he? OK. I’ll bite:
“Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is to visit Telford to hear the views of “ordinary hard working families” about the economy.”
Dear Ed, re the economy, you broke it.
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No the Bankers did thanks to the Tories years before remember Thatcher :-(
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Wow someone that is over paid and under worked from the gov wants to listen now that they are cutting funding for this and that but yet whilst these cuts are made they still have there big Salaries to live on when we all live in the real world. I loved to speak ED Balls and say spend a day in our lives live on the money we do. Just take a good hard look at those that work, look after there children and yet what do we get from the GOV more and more cuts to services which many of us need to help put our children into full time child care so we can work full time.
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Ed is not in the govermnet lady!! He is the opposition!!!!
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Ed Balls isn’t part of the Government, he’s a Labour MP. If you want to complain to someone who is in Government go along to your local MPs surgery – 4 out of the county’s 5 MPs are Tories. Alternatively, look at this site http://www.shropshirefightsback.org.uk/ and join in with making your voice heard on 26th March.
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pleased to see him, he’s intellectually light years ahead of the tories and has consistently been proved right on the economy since the crisis began
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Listen to this Mr Balls – labour fiddled whilst the banks burned. The country is flat broke with a huge credit card bill run up under labour. Labours answer – spend more and hire more people.
To Post 1, no one party had a majority so whomever you voted for has not got a mandate either. A coalition brings together 2 parties with different views and I certainly think the Lib Dem influence is there to see. Would labour really have done different to them – well probably bigger taxes but I for one am happy to see cuts of the over inflated public sector rather than massive tax hikes to my salary.
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