Which and where Would Labour have introduced Cuts to make meaningful Savings ?

[Oswald W]

ED Milliband is Talking BIG about the Cuts being made,so does that mean he would have happily borrowed more money and increased our 129Million Pound a day ?????????.. to what ?
Speak up Mr Milliband, I can't hear you say which way and how you would have have plugged the Debt hole your party managed to create over the years Your party spent in Power?
How much of the National debt you had hoped to pay off before our Nation could be able to break even ?

 

[alf the gardener]

first they should extend paye to everyones income paid on a weekly basis and guestimated on an average of the last 3 years for those on intermittent income.
this would bring in the government an extra £40billion a year of free borrowing and possibly an extra £15billion a year in revenue.
next all quangos should be scrapped which would save £5 billion a year.
most government departments are 50% overpopulated with with managerial workers, which would save £2billion a year.
all dividends paid out by companies should be taxed at source including non doms,
this would bring in an extra £7billion a year.
there should be an income tax inspector for every company with more than two hundred employees.
there should be a 50% tax levy on all bonuses of £100,000 and over.
there should be a 50p charge on every prescription for those exempt from paying exept for people having 5 or more items per month, this would save £2 billion in waste.
there should be a doubling of council tax on any second or more homes to try and reduce the housing shortage.

 

[Terrier (UK)]

We don't know for certain, other than to look at their last budget.

One saving they were going to make was in freezing the income tax threshold, so as to keep those on lower incomes paying more tax. They did increase an already massive tax break for the super-rich though, so savings there would have been largely, if not completely wiped out.

It's not in labour's interests to tell people where they would have cut. When labour were in power, Alistair Darling did make a vague mention that they would have to make worse cuts than Thatcher did in the 80s, although I don't ever remember seeing any details of how - and understandably so.

Far better for the labour party to sit back and pretend the debts could be paid without raising taxes or cutting spending - let the coalition take the heat for the difficult times ahead, then fight to regain power once the economy is doing better.

I'm not sure I'd be willing to believe Ed Miliband though - even if he told us. Comparing his rhetoric to his voting record suggests a lack of honesty.

Before becoming labour leader, he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

His rhetoric on climate change:
"Every*thing we know about life is that we should obey the precautionary principle"
"climate change is the greatest global threat facing our generation [...] it should be at the very heart of our plan for a successful economy, at the centre of our foreign policy and integral to our mission to change Britain "
"greater certainty about emissions is necessary to provide the strongest incentive to business"

His voting record:
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40208&dmp=1030

Note in particular, this one:
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-10-28&number=296&mpn=Edward_Miliband&mpc=Doncaster_North&house=commons
and remember the quote, "greater certainty about emissions is necessary to provide the strongest incentive to business".

He has also made political capital out of his opposition to the war in Iraq. Here is his voting record on that issue:
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=40208&dmp=975

I'd expect a similar level of honesty wrt tax rises/spending cuts.