Ed Miliband - My Fake Diary

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

During a speech in Harlow, Essex, where my party gained control in last week's council elections, I made some outstanding points to them.

Telling them: Hospital workers who "skive" off by taking sick leave when they are not really ill should be sacked, I warned them that money in the NHS was too "tight" to waste and called for a crackdown on people who fake sickness to gain more time off.

I also criticised unemployed young people who prefer to sit at home and take state benefits rather than go to work. And that benefit claimants must show "responsibility", as I sought to portray Labour as the party for "aspirational" voters!

Good stuff eh?