Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Farepak Five Years On
"The Farepak Victims Committee call on the Government to: 1. Bring those responsible to account; 2. Fully compensate Farepak Victims; 3. Put in place financial regulations that ensure that this never happens again."
And people say that you are not in touch with the working class. They are not exactly working class themselves and they sure as hell take no interest in issues like this one.
You have to hand it to the SLP. For all its many faults, it has certainly made the running on this. To the everlasting shame of the Labour Party. What does it think that it is for?
The blather about how the EU delivers workers' rights springs to mind. It shouldn't take the EU (the record of which on that is in any case decidedly "mixed"). If the Labour Party is not doing that sort of thing in and through the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then there is no point to the Labour Party.
And people say that you are not in touch with the working class. They are not exactly working class themselves and they sure as hell take no interest in issues like this one.
ReplyDeleteYou have to hand it to the SLP. For all its many faults, it has certainly made the running on this. To the everlasting shame of the Labour Party. What does it think that it is for?
ReplyDeleteThe blather about how the EU delivers workers' rights springs to mind. It shouldn't take the EU (the record of which on that is in any case decidedly "mixed"). If the Labour Party is not doing that sort of thing in and through the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then there is no point to the Labour Party.
The same applies here.