Bournemouth 2008: Vince Cable

[coalfires]

I THINK THIS OLD WANKER HAS HAD HIS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andrewshere]

Vince Cable: How disappointing. Nick Clegg: How disappointing. These sell-outs have turned the party into Tory lapdogs. Your one chance to be influential in front bench politics and you are failing. The Conservatives are conceding minor issues. Your decision on student fees will affect a whole generation and more - years to pay off their fees, no chance of getting a mortgage with such debt hanging over them, the collapse of the starter housing market, marriage pushed back later & later. SHAME!!!

[nccheese08]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwww. he is soooo cute

[onwebcameron]

So is he going to repeat all this to the 'snake oil salesman', now he'll be working for/with them. Or is he talking shit here. Perhaps he is joining the rich?

Are you going to be kneading the dough for Osborne's five loaves?

Are you happy to be working for the Party of UN-FAIRNESS.

You have a temporary taste of power, then nothing much after that, after yesterday.

Although I concede Clegg makes an equally good 'snake oil salesman'.

[cameron2575]

fairness, will pigs fly? will they Block Proportional Representation?

Let Nick Clegg know what you really think.

/watch?v=MqlTJ8OLE9A

[onwebcameron]

If you believe this now Vince, why are you joining forces with the Conservatives?

It seems the Lib Dems have lied to the electorate to gain a little notoriety, at the expense of real power and representing the feelings of the electorate and the majority of the country, which is clearly 'no' to Tory rule.

[sugarraygras]

@onwebcameron I agree with you. Now they get the chance to rob from the poor to pay for the rich. If only Robin Hood could have thought of that and he may have made more money , his merry men could have become much more efficient. The take per head is obviously smaller whilst robbing peasants but there are many more of them and many are unarmed already.

[sugarraygras]

@onwebcameron Why feed a small poor child when you can have a bit extra for yourself. Jesus could have also saved himself a lot of time and possibly the cross if he only new of this fiscal master stroke.God bless.

[max31198]

I love the comments about the Lib Dems here.

Question: Vinces says "Those overpaid financiers rattling their begging bowls and demanding help from the taxpayer should be sent packing."

Does that mean he would not have supported the banks with tax payers money

to allow them to continue ? Or is this statement, what he thinks we want to hear?

[max31198]

@max31198 Cont. He's (Vince) not bad though. But he's the only one in the Lib party and thats not enough talent to run a country. David Laws help run JP Morgan and was MD for part of Barclays so he'll know a bit about greedy bankers. But Laws is a smart cookie

[janebusby]

New Labours 'achievements'

* An illegal war in Iraq + a 9 year war in Afghanistan.

* Tuition fees which locked the poor out of university.

* A record divide between the rich & poor.

* 2.5 million unemployed.

* Less renewable, home produced energy than nearly every other developed nation.

* Record patchwork privatisation in the NHS.

* Proposals for spending tens of billions on Trident, ID cards & more war.

If every Labour voter voted Lib Dem, Clegg would have a massive majority.

LIB DEM 2010

[borjon23]

Why is this man not prime minister?

[janebusby]

NICK CLEGG IS BRITAINS OBAMA.

The underdog will come good this time.

***HOPE 2010***

[willwak]

Labour Conservatives will slash the meagre benefits of the poorest in the country whilst simultaneously importing foreigners to take the few low paid jobs there are left available.

Every election time we get the same disgusting vilification of the weakest in our society whilst MP's are currently being tried in court for fraud and bankers are paying themselves massive bonuses with our money, the right wing talk shows are attacking the poor. It's always some ''scrounger'' who takes ''thousands''

[sweatykev01]

such a shame this only has 4000ish views

[MrPaulanthony2007]

Vince Cable is a man of wisdom and experience.

[semigotbanned]

"Conservatives sell a New Brand of Snake Oil"

LOLOLOLOLOLOL, totally agree

[zoelwilson]

The Liberal Democrats are the only feasible party in Britain who talk any sense.

[worcesterwombat]

bullshit - attacking the Tories so he can steal their votes! A few years ago, when Labour was riding high, Lib Dems wanted more tax, now the wind is changing they are tacking to the right to try to pick up Tory votes

basically the Lib Dems don't believe in anything much except being all things to all people to try to get elected

[manalone999]

Like Labour, Liberal Democratics are for the Islamization of Britain and therefore not electable.

[snaed27]

Might I add ,as an individual ,Vince Cable is a man among boys .... Clegg step over let the right man run the party .....we have had enough of rich fresh faced lads telling us what is right ...Vince has lived a life ...you have not .

[anthonyo4]

I think his talents would be put to better use as chancellor

[snaed27]

All birds of prey ....no separate parties ..all will continue to reap us of liberty and freedom .....that is the goal and the alternate Greens will use "Global warming" to tax the ass off us ...plus the sandals and lentils

30 ,000 scientists have decided to sue Al Gore over his(inconvenient truth ) lies as he pushes a(Nobel prize) carbon tax bill through ....nice backhander for handing over the vote to Bush .

[Mickmars90]

I suppose Vince Cable's idea of fairness is ''Do as I say not as I do.'' The only reason the audience cheers as loud as they do when Cable attacks the Tories is because they fear the Tories, and the number of marginals the Libs will lose to the Tories (Taunton, Eastleigh).

[SaxonShields]

Somalian war criminals living in British council houses.

VOTE BNP

[fakweet]

This man picked the wrong profession. He should be a comedian!

[liberaluk10]

Labour & Tories have rotated power between themselves for almost 87 years.

They have become centralised, over comfortable, demotivated and apathetic.

In an attempt to half please everyone, they serve NOBODY.

It's time for a 3rd party to come in and SHAKE THINGS UP A BIT!

VOTE 3RD PARTY WITH ME!

[Murmeration]

In an ideal world the LibDems/Greens would be in power and Vince would be a major figure in the gov't.

In the real world what we will no doubt have is that red faced Bullingdon Club oik Cameron and his cohorts selling off more of the family silver and giving bigger tax cuts to the wealthy.

[crimebuzz1]

The Lib Dems are IN power here up North in a big city. You got to be daft to be a Southerner. Prepare for a lib dem government. You'll be surprised.

[imonthebox]

You dont have to be a political genius to realise that the 80's free market initiated by Thatcher, has to be reversed with state intervention. New Labour have embraced Thatcher's free market since 1997, including taxation, pensions, and privatisation.

The Lib-Dems will never get into power, but ide like to see them in power, because New Labour have been the biggest con trick in British political history.

[Mickmars90]

The free market hasn't caused this mess, and when the history books are written about this crisis, people will realise that. We have central banks, which sets an artificial interest rate that distorts the market. If the market sets the interest rate, the growth of the money supply would be moderate and controlled, and if we were on the gold standard, we'd have to follow a disciplined fiscal and monetary policy.

[Mickmars90]

The money supply has been growing at around 15% per annum since 2001. We have had a massive credit explosion. Government control the level of money and credit in the economy through their central bank. Once we rid ourselves of central banks, we can abolish corporatism. The Austrian School economists are perhaps the most ardent free marketeers, and they have been predicting this crisis for 5 years, starting with Ron Paul.

[Erech01]

'tory fairness'

LOL!!!:P

[lelvish1]

This is the reason why you should vote Liberal Democrat at the next General election.

[Erech01]

Yeah, during this economic trouble, id rather have people with Vince Cables experience at the economic helm.

[Mickmars90]

He and his party were calling for higher public spending only a year and a half ago. This was despite all the warnings from various academic economists and the Conservative Party about corporate and personal debt in the country. And then last year, the party proposed a £20 billion reduction in spending. Vince Cable is heavily overrated. If you want intelligent economic news and financial analysis, read John Redwood's blog. Cable himself said that Redwood was the most financially astute MP

[sugarraygras]

@lelvish1 you have been sold out now though havent they.

[poenaensis]

This is my favourite politician. Unfortunately he is not immune from the need for empty rhetoric. The assualt on the tories was empty. It would be as easy to write off his headline tax cuts as dealing wit the tory threat to liberal seats. Fortunately, he gets onto actual policies soon enough, tax dodgers and housing etc. Here he shows why he would make an excellent cabinet ministers.

[thatcheritescot]

vince cabel is the best the lib dems have..... what a bunch of idiots they are not having him as leader

[Erech01]

He doesnt want to be leader, if he doesnt want to be leader then making him leader would be even more idiotic.

[thatcheritescot]

then hes worse than i thought..... thats the problem with the lib dems..... even when they have a good man he wont do the job..... clegg will do the libs no good

[Erech01]

'even when they have a good man he wont do the job'

He wont do the job cause he doesnt feel sutable for the job otherwise he would have it by now. Vince Cable is an economic genius, he predicted a housing market collapse long before it happened , and still said it would happen as both Labour and the Cons were laughing at him, he deserves more credit than he is given, as does Nick Clegg who has put the right peole in the right place within the party which i why Clegg is a good leader.

[thatcheritescot]

yes he predicted a few things right but cabel is not that great...... there are a lot of flaws in what the lib dems say they can pay for

[smudge6699]

Gordon Brown is still practising his only economic policy, it goes like this,

1 Take money off the people, throw it at the problem, hope it goes away.

2 If it doesn't, repeat 1 above.

And they have the temerity to consider themselves intellectuals.

You couldn't make it up.

By the way, it helps to consider what's going on not as a recession but as a harvest.

After all which way is the money going towards the people or away?

We have a treasonable feral government of economic and moral terrorists.

[rangerstruth]

Very Clever Man , But as always the good men are always kept down, You / i often wonder did Blair know what was round the corner & bailed out just in time !!

[shakasama]

I recommend you meet Vincent in person,

7am on a cold rainy day at my local railway station. The reason people respect him is because he actually believes what he says, unlike Blair, Brown

et al who are so obsessed and addicted to sound bites it is almost painful. I left labour 2 years ago and will never go back until the damage that Blair caused is repaired.

[Salluzzo]

Hi Vice, you should be our PM.

What is wrong with the Tory and the New Labs? I love your sarcasm: "To share the proceeds of recession". What is this world coming too? The future is scary in the wrong hands

[walkdru]

now i am looked at when asked for help as a theif and scrounger?

great labour goverment huh??

[walkdru]

growing up as a child shafted on employment education and burdened by heavy tax! lost my job get no help to re train

left to fend by a nhs that dont care if i die with my diabeties illness.

this was a conservate and labour upbringing so u know who i am voting next but will they listen i know recession years ago?

[Jonnyw127]

I hate the way the media looks to the conservatives and labour party tog et us out of this economic mess when Vince Cable saw it coming and has the best plans to get us out of it.

Don't get the idea you have to vote tory or labour, vote lib dem. They want what's best for us.

[Ilikenuman]

lol a cheeky little go at the BNP!

[Lumenbrother]

Apart from Guy Fawkes, Vince Cable is the only man to have entered the house of commons with good intentions.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@Lumenbrother

Guy Fawkes may have entered the commons with good intentions, though those good intentions were to bring an end to democracy and restore monarchy.

[23drive]

Vince Cable and the Lib Dems were right on Iraq and right on the economy. That's a better track record than like Blair, Brown and Cameron. If he's a silly old man, we need more of them!

[epiphany55]

THIS MAN KNEW WHAT WAS COMING!!

[kev1130]

Vince for PM!

[theturtlesback]

Great speech! Vince Cable is a real talent.

However, please, LibDems - ditch the hideous GREY background!!! It may sound silly, but colour is an important psychological element in conveying the right message.

[CatrionaLiverpool]

Interesting. The biblical references were witty, although too much tory bashing ultimately.

I like the idea of public sector workers over £100k reapplying but that of reducing their pay if successful is illogical. Attracting high calibre individuals away from the private sector is hard enough, so a move to exacerbate the difference would be highly detrimental and a false economy.

[planetdmcc]

I am not an economist and to me if you look after pennies pound will look after you. These days it sounds old fashioned. However, the speech given by Prof Vince Cable sounds highly intellectual and makes sense. One thing I am unable to understand why the world famous economist Mr Gordon Brown did not think about it. I will call this speech excellent and wish him the best of the British luck and hope that it works. From Senior Citizen Deepak

[Ladycounsel]

Razor sharp wit as ever Vince, and effective in driving home the points. Refreshingly insightful, and with solutions.

Sorry you were not on last night's Question Time....PLEASE PLEASE get on soon.

PS and get on strictly come dancing...

[smudge6699]

He's on Question time on Thursday 25th September. Hope this helps>

[Ladycounsel]

Excellent, thank you.. so now it's just waiting for Strictly....

[Britlandish]

i know what he has against cameron - cameron's from oxford and old cable boy is from cambridge uni - please clegg sack this bumbling idiot!!!!

[Britlandish]

I hope this man does not get re elected at the general election - he is a media junky - on every bloody channel talking bout the economy - he also consistently goes on about the environment - the man used to sit on the Shell board - get him off the airwaves get him out of parliament and for gos sake put a sock in that stupid old mans mouth - i'm bored!!!

[epiphany55]

Yeh I suppose the fact Cable went blue in the face warning of our excessive reliance on credit means nothing to something who goes around singing LALALALALALA with fingers in their ears. Ignorant fools :)

[cambridgechris]

What I saw was an awful lot of tiresome Tory-bashing and boring religious analogy, and not much in the way of solution or policy.

Compare this to Chris Huhne's speech; he got stuck right into the meat straight away - and I don't even like Chris Huhne!

[smudge6699]

At last!

Someone who not only truly appreciates the depth of our financial problems and has workable solutions but also realises the moral degradation that Britain's "americanisation" has reduced the country to.

If every dog has his day then today is that day and Vince Cable is that dog.

Is he a financial prophet and will he become our financial wizard?

Go Vince!