Just listening to the Daily Politics and Barry Gardiner (Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade) being forced to accept that
by the end of the decade Labour would be borrowing twice as much as the current figure.
I wonder when Abbott will pop up claiming that doubling borrowing in this way won't increase the national debt...
He's also having great difficulty explaining how Labour are going to 'nationalise' the National Grid. They might do it this way, they might do it that way, not sure how much it'll cost or where the money will come from blah, blah, blah...
He eventually admitted that some of the costs of Labour's 're-nationalisation' would come from the money we're told is going to be spent on all that supposedly
new infrastructure they've promised (£25bn pa) but couldn't say how much...
Labour do keep banging on about the all those obscene dividends being paid to shareholders by the likes of National Grid yet never seem to want to admit that a significant proportion of those very dividends head straight into the pension funds which so many ordinary people rely on to supplement their meagre state provision. I dare say there's a great many Labour supporters who're chomping at the bit for action to be taken on dividends yet don't realise their own pensions will suffer accordingly, just as they did when Brown raided the pension funds and took £millions away from ordinary people.