Other than the couple of dozen people whose numbers are in the BBC's phones, the Labour Party is clearly in very good heart this week.
By contrast, next week's Conservative Party Conference threatens to descend into mayhem over the total lack of Brexit on the part of a Leader who came to that office (not to the office of Prime Minister, which is a different matter) without any election whatever.
Those in the hall will cheer her non-committal commitment to grammar schools, as their Labour counterparts used to cheer Blair's to the abolition of hereditary peers and to a ban on foxhunting.
But neither of those things ever quite happened. Blair never even voted for the hunting ban.
And even the attempts at them certainly never caused anyone, except perhaps Labour MPs, to forget about PFIs or the Iraq War.
The present Conservative Prime Minister may well turn out to have been only the second of this Parliament's three.
As for people who say that Labour will never return to office, they said exactly the same thing about the Conservatives 15 years ago. The same individuals used the same words.
Peter Hitchens, in particular, has been giving the Conservative Party less than 10 years to live for about 20 years. Now that he is saying the same thing about Labour, keep that in mind.
As for people who say that Labour will never return to office, they said exactly the same thing about the Conservatives 15 years ago. The same individuals used the same words.
Peter Hitchens, in particular, has been giving the Conservative Party less than 10 years to live for about 20 years. Now that he is saying the same thing about Labour, keep that in mind.
Like you, Hitchens has a continuous supply of very young male followers who don't remember him from before. But unlike his, yours are very well dressed, they are independent minded in their own right, they can hold their drink, and they don't give up when they start having sex or getting served in pubs. There must now be nearly a 15 year age gap between your oldest and youngest acolytes. You are movement, a phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteI have long noticed how their standards of dress went up when they entered David's orbit. He is a profound influence in more ways than one.
DeleteOne does one's best.
DeleteWatch how many times they mention Jeremy next week. That's how irrelevant he is.
ReplyDeleteA party with more members than all the others put together is by definition the political mainstream. With a member on every street by about February if not earlier, that's not a cult, it's an established church.
Next week will either descend into the chaos that David describes, or it won't be worth reporting at all except as a cure for insomnia. I can never remember a Government with less control of the narrative or the agenda. Those are being set entirely by the Opposition.
DeleteWatch how many times they mention Jeremy next week. That's how irrelevant he is.
DeleteA party with more members than all the others put together is by definition the political mainstream. With a member on every street by about February if not earlier, that's not a cult, it's an established church.
You are good. Seriously good.