Cameron and Miliband to face off over riots as cross-party unity crumbles

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/15/cameron-miliband-riots-unity-crumbles

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The prime minister will go head to head with the leader of the opposition as the two make speeches setting out their competing analyses of the riots and looting. The pair make similarly emphatic condemnations of the rioters, but in a speech at his old school in Camden, Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, will denounce Cameron's ideas to deal with rioters, put forward over the weekend, as "gimmicks".

Miliband will also link the behaviour of the looters and bankers, phone hacking and MPs' expenses scandals, saying: "It's not the first time we've seen this kind of me-first, take-what-you-can attitude. The bankers who took millions while destroying people's savings: greedy, selfish, immoral. The MPs who fiddled their expenses: greedy, selfish, immoral. The people who hacked phones to get stories and make money for themselves: greedy, selfish and immoral. Let's talk about what this does to our culture."

Today, Cameron will push his long-held opinion that parts of Britain are broken, despite opinion polls that show the public believes he has not handled events well. He will say today that government ministers from both parties will audit their portfolios for policies aimed at mending the "broken society".

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In the speech, to be delivered outside London, Cameron will say: "Over the next few weeks, I and ministers from across the coalition government will review every aspect of our work to mend our broken society, on schools, welfare, families, parenting, addiction, communities; on the cultural, legal, bureaucratic problems in our society too; from the twisting and misrepresenting of human rights that has undermined personal responsibility, to the obsession with health and safety that has eroded people's willingness to act according to common sense – and consider whether our plans and programmes are big enough and bold enough to deliver the change that I feel this country now wants to see."



Riots: the political battle lines are drawn
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/riots-the-political-battle-lines-are-drawn-2337832.html
David Cameron blames children without fathers and schools without discipline, while Ed Miliband blames bankers and MPs for failing to set a better example for society

[Prometheus Bound]

1. Interesting to see Miliband put greedy, selfish, immoral bankers and MPs on centre stage.

Look forward to more of that.

[bemildred]

2. So much for the "riots don't work" argument. nt

[BackToThe60s]

3. Oops!

:rofl: