Phil Collins? Ha, Ha, Ha. But this one, like all Blairites, has only one objection to the programme of the Coalition, who as Eighties recruits to the Conservative Party or as Orange Book Lib Dems only ever went into politics in order to put people out of work. The present economic situation is just an excuse, and not a very good one.
That objection is that the butchery is too restrained, that the privatisation and the outright withdrawal do not go anything like far enough. If David Miliband had become Leader of the Labour Party, then he would not have been addressing today's rally. Rather, he would have been saying that, so that the "choice" at the next Election would have been between Bad and Worse.
A certain number of Labour MPs has to go next time, simply because there will be fewer seats to fill. The Blairite remnant needs to be identified and purged. Beginning with David Miliband.
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He is not likely to stand again but only being the leader's brother saves him from deselection.
ReplyDeleteI assume that you draw the line at the most un-Attlee-like occupation of Fortnum & Mason?
ReplyDeleteClearly, proper tea is theft.
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ReplyDeleteIt is up to the CLP whether he is deselected. Not Ed. But I don't think he will be deselected anyway, nor do I think he would care too much if he did.
Roll on electoral reform.
ho! Ho! HO!
ReplyDeleteI see David Lindsay so you are suggesting something like the Australian Democratic Labor Party?
http://www.dlp.org.au/
Though having learned from its past mistakes.
ReplyDeleteIt is on the up again, with a Senator returned last year. A very good sign.
I would hardly be the first person to point out the similarities between David Lindsay and the DLP's late, great guiding light Bob Santamaria.
ReplyDeleteYou really are too kind.
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