Emily Thornberry forced to scramble through notes live on TV in another Labour gaffe
 

The whole party clearly has no idea what they are doing :laugh3:

Queen of being human, we shouldn't be expected to remember every single figure going

I heard they were making Diane Abbot shadow chancellor, so she can move in to No14.

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lol messy party.

more messy than a babys nappy

more **** also.

You can if its part of your parties manifesto

It's a sorry state of affairs.Just hope they can get their **** together.This team is doing the party no favours at all.

What about Philip Hammond missing the cost of HS2 by a margin of £20billion, when asked about it on this morning's Today Programme? Where's the incessant mocking? The outrage? The endless news reports? No? Nobody?

****ing pathetic

Or what about Theresa May's false claim in a joint press conference earlier, that the pound was falling before the referendum result? A mistake? An outright lie? No? Nobody?

The simple fact of the matter is that politicians of all persuasions are human beings, not robots, and cannot at all times be expected to retain every bit of information they have ever been given. But of course, nobody cares about this when it's the Tories doing it. That 'invisibility cloak' strikes again. This country is laughable

Mother Theresa would never mumble her words and be forced to scramble through papers

And Theresa does apart from killing foxes and ensuring further poverty?

She's only learned to say strong and stable and discuss shoes. That's why.

I think the problem is that Labour need to be on point with this stuff more than anybody.Their leader doesn't have the confidence of the people and their persona is that they're no good with money so every gaff they make is under the microscope.
The Tories are so far ahead that it doesn't even matter what they do so it's not getting reported as widely.For them it's just a mistake.For Labour it's being 'useless on the economy'.
Labour need to be fighting as hard as they can and this crap isn't instilling confidence.

No, but she would tell a bare faced lie that you'll conveniently ignore because it hasn't been picked up on by the Daily Mail

Besides, Emily Thornberry isn't the leader of the opposition. And Philip Hammond is the chancellor

All of the parties have been in a bit of a shambles to be fair. This election has been sprung on the opposition so I guess its all been a bit of a rush job to get the manifestos together. They can be easily forgiven for not remembering every figure but should possibly ensure they are prepared better. Its not a normal business meeting being quizzed on national TV by people who are desperate for you to slip up so they have the next headline.

Wish people would concentrate on the issues and policies in the manifestos rather than people making the odd mistake when quoting them

Labour will insure poverty when they aim to borrow 10s of billions with no plans on how to pay it back

Oh, the Daily Mail. Nothing to see here.

I don't disagree, and certainly these incidents aren't going to help the campaign which is irritating - but like I said politicians are human, and are perfectly capable of not remembering every figure they have ever learned when put on the spot. This applies both ways, my issue is with the media jumping down the throat of the Labour shadow cabinet and it being rolling news for 24 hours - and everyone else jumping on the bandwagon - whilst the Tories barely get more than three articles, and nobody gives a ****. As I said the other day, it seems to me that they can literally do and say anything they like, and people will either make excuses for them or ignore it because "strong and stable", "coalition of chaos", "weak leader", etc etc.

I did like the fact that at the manifesto launch, Jeremy pointed out that the Tories have borrowed more than any Labour government in history, and thus they don't need lecturing on economic competence. The Miliband campaign allowed themselves to be defined by Cameron and co as economically weak (like that stupid ****ing note from Liam Byrne that if anyone actually bothered to research, is a customary jovial note left for the successor). I hope they absolutely hammer this point home throughout the campaign because barely anybody knows this and instead just swallows the Tory propaganda. Can you tell I hate the electorate? :joker:

Is this what serious debates is now, a new thread for every tiny fumble of papers and yet people are dropping like flies due to this callous govt?.... :/

Totally right.

With figures,it is always the case that you cannot have the dead right figure to hand all the time.
All politicians get into difficulties as to that.

hmmm interesting point ill check for that

Yeah they are only human.I would probably make many mistakes in their shoes.However they are politicians in opposition on an election run up and the press are like a dog with a bone for them.I think they need to practice being polished on the figures.

I didn't know that about the note.I thought that was legit.It is strange how most people don't know about that.

Big deal, I don't get why people are so angry about Diane Abbott either, mistakes happen.

Wow this section of the forum really misses LT.