party election broadcast

[simon gray]

as many of us are preparing to vote in local elections in a couple of
weeks time, and some of us even have referendums to decide whether we
want directly elected mayors to run our cities, let's not forget this
party election broadcast for the 1994 european elections:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438UKM1Av1g

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[Andrew Hatton]

I doubt it is much less inappropriate than Lord Winston's one this
week about the N.H.S. despite it being LOCAL elections!

[Alec]

Would that it were, Andrew, that Ken Livingstone were limiting his unobtainable promises in London to the NHS.  To name but one other, he's vowing to re-instigate the EMA... although he would be able to force London-based schools to provide it, there would be no replacement funds from central government so the schools would have to cut expenditures in other areas such as teaching kids.

In Scotland, the Holyrood Government just has announced that proposed cuts to council tax and rent benefit (state benefits are not a Devolved issue) will be deferred for a year; with the clear sub-text that this is a pitch for the local elections.  Again, they can do this... it's just that they'll need to shuffle money from somewhere else (maybe money which is ear-marked for wind farms if Donald Trump manages to stymie the one in Aberdeen).

Yogic flying sounds much better than just another bunch of hacks on the make.  I haven't been following the referendums in places like Brum closely, but it'll be ghastly if an uninspiring percentage of the electorate votes and still manages to approve yet another tier of governance with superannuated salaries.


~alec