04/06/2010: "The Labour party dont know what they stand for..."

yesterday, prospective parliamentary candidate for the labour party, graham jones (hyndburn and haslingden) stated on his blog:

"... gordon brown did not cause the housing boom. robert peston of the BBC has a great article on it. It was the markets that caused the boom!
If you want to regulate the market's i suggest you join the socialist workers party"

today on the lunchtime news, peter mandelson stated the exact opposite:

"... we will grow the markets!"

so which is it?
do the government have the powers to grow the market (and reduce the market using regulation) - or do the government have no powers to regulate the markets and peter mandelson is telling us all lies, as the government cannot grow the markets?

i find it astounding, that a labour party candidate states that his party are not a socialist party, telling people to join a socialist workers party if they want the markets controlling, at the same time as blaming the markets for his own party leaders mistakes!

if hes not a socialist and he doesnt believe in free markets - then what exactly does he and the party he claims to represent, stand for???