Rod Liddle, having heard John Prescott, wonders if anyone in the Labour Party was ever always fully behind the Iraq War. Yes, there was one. David Miliband.
He was also fully behind what is now the failed and discredited "free" schools programme of the failed and discredited Michael Gove. He was fully behind for-profit universities. He was fully behind flogging off our GP services to the American healthcare industry. He was fully behind privatising the Royal Mail, bring an end to daily deliveries, to door-to-door deliveries, and to Post Offices anywhere except in town centres. And he was fully behind abolishing all three of our Armed Forces by merging them under American command.
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Incredible that there isn't a shred of evidence showing him espousing some of these things. Still, suppose this is another one of those "everyone who is anyone knows it, and if you don't what does that make you, so I don't need anything more" eh?
ReplyDeleteI was going to right the one word "Yes", but in fact I have to wonder if you were living in this country, or even if you were born, during the Blair years, especially the first term.
ReplyDeleteWell yes I was indeed. And yet, somehow, I can't remember any of these things being espoused by him. Convenient how all of these unprovable things that "you need to be in the know, to know" support your agenda, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNo, you just need to have been both sufficiently able and sufficiently bothered to pay any attention between 1997 and 2001.
ReplyDelete10 years on, with Brown out of the way, we have a government doing all these things anyway. We do not need three parties like that. Anyone But Miliband.
ReplyDeleteAnyone But David Miliband, as you no doubt mean. His brother seems to be the best available line of defence against him.
ReplyDeleteWhy is David Miliband not a member of the Government that is implementing everything that he and Tony Blair could never get past Gordon Brown? Only in to complete the coup by making him Leader of the Labour Party, and thus "Leader of the Opposition".
I think you are right about that, Miliband D would be a Minister now but has instead been left behind to take over the Labour Party. That way there will be no viable electoral alternative to this agenda. They thought that he would only have to beat Ed Balls, easy. They had reckoned without Ed Miliband.
ReplyDeleteThey may yet also have reckoned without the Alternative Vote. Possibly not the first time, although it will still be well worth giving a go. But certainly the time after that. Whether we can wait ten years is, though, a different question. Don't let the situation arise.
ReplyDeleteDon't elect a Labour Leader in favour of "free" schools, in favour of for-profit universities, in favour of flogging off our GP services to the American healthcare industry, in favour of privatising the Royal Mail (no more daily deliveries, no more door-to-door deliveries, no more Post Offices anywhere except in town centres), and in favour of abolishing all three of our Armed Forces by merging them under American command.
Don't elect a Labour Leader who would make common cause with the supporters of Liam Fox and Michael Gove in order to oppose withdrawal from Afghanistan and in order to press for war against Iran.
Don't elect a Labour Leader who is David Miliband.