09/12/09

It appears that the issue of class is rearing its ugly head once again. Labour just can’t leave the wretched subject alone. They refuse to learn the lessons of their shambolic defeat in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election. As Tallyrand famously said of the restored Bourbon kings: “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing”. Although it is true to say that the social make-up of David Cameron and the majority of his frontbench team is a significant thorn in the side for the Tories, abusing the Leader of the Opposition during PMQs for his Etonian schooling is not only unedifying, but it is also counterproductive from the Prime Minister’s point of view….[Continue Reading]

08/12/09

Having read this article today, I am once again filled with dislike, albeit personal, biased and subjective dislike, for Hazel Blears. Ms. Blears comments are selfish and damaging to a party she claims to love.…[Continue Reading]

Having been out and about campaigning for Labour Party candidates in both Sheffield and Manchester this week, I got a sense of core Labour voters’ attitudes to both the party and the current state of politics…[Continue reading]

Labour’s victory in Glasgow North-East last week was a symbolic, if expected, triumph in a constituency among the most deprived in the country. For all the talk of a ‘negative’ campaign, a 7,000 majority is clearly a ringing endorsement of Labour’s record. However, elections are not won on past achievements, which is why the Labour Party must continue to demonstrate a progressive future for the country. The Conservative Party has been allowed to ghost through crises of the economy, the democratic system and public sector strikes without being pushed to provide a realistic alternative to Labour policies….[Continue reading]

 Within the political realms of reality, one must establish between various and differing degrees of politician. You have your “opportunists”, who will at any cost step over and trod down vicarious friends turned into foes (Foraying into the Gordon Brown and Tony Blair debacle prior to the introduction of Peter Mandleson), then you have your bumbling desolate, albeit outlandish and unflinching hair-styled Boris Johnson, not forgetting the peoples champion George Galloway and then you have your mediocre and lesser known talented politicians, Lorely Burt…[Continue Reading]