In his New Year message the Labour leader Ed Miliband described 2011 as the year of consequences as he warned that the Government’s cuts were forbidding and unheeding.
He said Labour’s job was now to persuade voters that the party offered ‘a better, more optimistic future for Britain’.
In response, the Liberal Democrat President-elect Tim Farron said:
“If 2011 is the year of consequences, they are the consequences of Labour leaving us on the verge of bankruptcy.
“Ed Miliband has called for a ‘proper economic strategy’ – but the last one, cooked up with Gordon Brown while Ed was in the Treasury, didn’t really work out so well.
“Labour’s legacy is a broken economy and people are hurting. Hard-working families are suffering because Labour failed to protect them in boom and bust.
“Ed Miliband’s current strategy appears to be to cross his fingers and hope for the worst.”
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