BAE must be brought back into public
ownership, as the monopoly supplier to our own Armed Forces and to no one else.
Meanwhile, provided that there is the necessary government action to ensure diversification and thus to preserve skills while rebuilding the manufacturing base, the sale of arms abroad must be banned, perhaps progressively, but altogether in the end.
Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
Of course, if the 45 Conservatives who have rightly objected to the merger between BAE and EADS under the domination of the French and German Governments really were Tories, then they themselves would be advocating this. Just as they would be advocating similar measures against the takeover of our railways and of our utilities by foreign states as such. And just as they would be opposing the use of British military resources of any kind in any cause other than strictly British national interests.
One Nation politics, with an equal emphasis on the One and on the Nation. The 45 Rebellion is led by Ben Wallace. He is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ken Clarke. But, as Clarke's very long Ministerial record makes abundantly clear, so much for that. He is in the same category as the man who privatised more of the British economy than any other Minister in history, Michael Heseltine.
Again, Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
Meanwhile, provided that there is the necessary government action to ensure diversification and thus to preserve skills while rebuilding the manufacturing base, the sale of arms abroad must be banned, perhaps progressively, but altogether in the end.
Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
Of course, if the 45 Conservatives who have rightly objected to the merger between BAE and EADS under the domination of the French and German Governments really were Tories, then they themselves would be advocating this. Just as they would be advocating similar measures against the takeover of our railways and of our utilities by foreign states as such. And just as they would be opposing the use of British military resources of any kind in any cause other than strictly British national interests.
One Nation politics, with an equal emphasis on the One and on the Nation. The 45 Rebellion is led by Ben Wallace. He is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ken Clarke. But, as Clarke's very long Ministerial record makes abundantly clear, so much for that. He is in the same category as the man who privatised more of the British economy than any other Minister in history, Michael Heseltine.
Again, Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
Flying kites for them again, Mr. L. It is utterly hilarious that the Blairites who are still technically Labour party members, people like Neil Fleming if I may mention her name on this hallowed blog, don't know one tenth of what you do about policy formulation behind the scenes and don't have one hundredth of your influence from your expelled position.
ReplyDeleteAh, bless her little heart. I wouldn't wish to make this or any other thread about Neil Fleming, but...
ReplyDeleteShe has probably not read Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory, written by someone who had been in the year below her at school and who had been instrumental in first co-opting her onto a Parish Council. She would certainly never admit to having done so, still less to agreeing with any of it.
Yet, in her heart of hearts, she probably would agree with about as much of it as she would disagree with. But she has spent 15 years defining herself against every word lately collected therein. A party in which the tendency recently organised as Blue Labour rules in benign coalition with what used to be called the Soft Left would probably suit the real views of a person halfway between the two.
But she has invested too much in an allegiance to everything to which they are both opposed, to everything that defines itself against them both. And, as the world turns, precisely that is why she will never now be an MP, but, being the same age as I am, can probably look forward to another 35 years of putting the kettle on. She is not the only one.