Ed Miliband responding to question about where specifically Labour cuts would fall…
“I want to be sort of clear about this…”
Labour’s Frank Doran told the House this afternoon:
“I’m not sure it is a job for a woman, although the honourable lady [Sheryll Murray MP] might reach that. That was not a sexist remark. I know the fishing industry very well.”
Everyday sexism…
Meet Dayle Taylor, UKIP’s carrot-topped candidate in Blackburn who has made a bit of a Tit-ian of himself. Yesterday ‘Duracell’ Dayle risked inflaming his party HQ by posting this graphic on Facebook, complete with amusing Martin Luther King paraphrasing. Fruitcakes, loonies and a ginger nut…
The YouGov website does not include the Green Party in their voting intentions graphs, so Guido has decided to give them their deserved billing. Once again the Greens are in fourth today, knocking the LibDems down into fifth. As you can see above this is starting to look like a trend. You can read the numbers in full here. Natalie Bennett says “a grassroots green revolution is under way”…
Video, appropriately, via @LiarPoliticians.
It’s been a while since Guido’s global coverage caught up with how the loony Labour left’s favourite socialist paradise is getting on. Well, today Venezuela’s probability of defaulting on its debts has sky-rocketed to 93%, as the oil price slump sends the country’s bond prices to a 16 year low. The graph above from Zero Hedge shows how default risk has gone through the roof.
Venezuela's reserves (lowest in a decade) cover just 40% of debt due in the next five years
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 11, 2014
Bloomberg reports:
“Venezuela, which has seen over 1,000 of its companies nationalized since former President Hugo Chavez came to power 15 years ago, relies on oil for 95% of its export revenue. The nation is plagued by chronic shortages of everything from milk to toilet paper amid the world’s fastest inflation. The economy is expected to shrink 3% this year and another 1.5% in 2015.”
Owen Jones, Diane Abbott et al don’t tend to talk about Venezuela so much these days…
