http://www.labourhome.org/ Back to the roots... en-us Copyright 2007 - LabourHome.org Tue Oct 7 00:56:37 2008 Labourhome Labourhome http://www.labourhome.org/favicon.ico http://www.labourhome.org/ http://www.labourhome.org/story/2007/10/8/133013/620 "As he surveys the wreckage, the procrastinating PM will be ruing the day he put boys into the jobs of men".

Gordon is a big girls blouse for not calling an election.  He has damaged his image as a courageous lion-hearted big beast of British politics, and handed the Tories momentum.

I have little doubt that he could have put his towering intellect to good use, and have produced a manifesto of substance which would have shown voters that unlike Cameron's Tories, Labour has a practical and progressive plan for Britain. 

Yet when confronted by a mouse like Cameron, - who was aided by a week of favourable coverage by his chums in the media - Gordon cowered, panicked and ran away.

To make matters worse, Brown has chosen to embrace spin; and over the past week this has backfired badly.  Brown refused to rule out an election and allowed Douglas Alexander et al to spin the possibility and then probability of an election. 

Douglas, like his sister Wendy, is too clever by half.  His competence must be questioned after the disastrous Scottish election campaign that he 'masterminded', and after the humiliating fiasco in the same election which led to hundreds of thousands of votes being voided, for which he was also responsible.

Like the other donkeys behind the on/off election spin fiasco, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, Alexander has risen to become a senior figure in the Brown administration not because of his ability, but because of his loyalty to Brown.

Its time for Gordon to show some bottle and bring wise veteran of the political battleground Charlie Whelan back into the fold, and also bring back Nick Brown as chief whip and give Geoff "Buff" Hoon a job more suited to his intellect, like flipping burgers in McDonalds or something.  He should also make Ken Livingstone party chairman because this would reconnect with the party's base and bring back some credibility to attempts to put the wars behind him.

"Get some greybeards around you.  Politics is an adult board game; you can't win anything with kids"

 
]]> 2007-10-08T13:30:13-05:00 http://www.labourhome.org/story/2007/10/8/12390/2862 The recent on/off election soap opera shows how disconnected the media and the political class is with the interests of citizens.  Much like the speculation about when Blair would leave, the media and the political class has concentrated on and speculated about an unimportant sideshow within the political process rather than discuss and debate matters which actually matter.  

What people are worried about is the implications and causes of the credit crunch, and finding alternatives to the casino capitalism which rules all our lives; the rising and unsustainable amount of personal debt in this country; the lack of council housing or affordable housing; the UK's transition toward becoming a police state; actual policies for tackling climate change; the repression of trade unionism; the US-UK alliance’s imperial misadventures in the middle east; the lack of a decent minimum wage; the low level of tax paid by the super-rich; the fact that political parties are funded by the super-rich and so represent the interests of the super-rich; the growing privatization of the NHS and education system; and the fact that in this British 'democracy' the political parties are only concerned with carrying the favour of a few swing voters in marginal constituencies in middle-England.

Neither Labour nor the Tories or those in the media will discuss or debate these matters, because both parties are now run by careerist politicians with no discernable values or beliefs who both want power for power's sake; and so the media and the political class control debate within bland narrow parameters which uphold the interests of the bourgeoisie. 

People want control of their own lives, both politically and in the workplace. 

But we won't hear this discussed because the media and the political class have there head so far stuck up their own. . .

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