Category Archives: Labour Party
The greed’s still there
Thanks to the Daily Telegraph buying the purloined MP expenses CD we found out just how many of our politicians followed the ‘Greed is Good’ line from the 1970s. Now we are beginning to see how the very topmost layer of our civil service was quite happy to follow it also. Last year the porcine [...]
Can Ed Miliband learn from Obama
The Obama presidency has looked in trouble for more than a year. The Republicans have blocked any attempt he makes to get some growth back into the economy and his recent actions and attitude have been that of a beaten man. He was getting blasted with much the same conservative rhetoric as Ed Miliband has [...]
Going Greek
As we move even closer to a double-dip recession, or even a possible 1930′s style depression, what is happening in Greece and to a lesser extent in Ireland should be a warning to British social democrats. Do you remember just a short time ago that Cameron, Osborne and the Tory press were laughing at Ed [...]
Where do you go to…
What does the working man do when he no longer has a political party to turn to? He can see he is being made to pay for the mistakes of the bankers and the political class, but finds none of the politicians willing to stand up and say that the rich should pay, not the [...]
Being behind the curve
‘Behind the curve’. It really sounds like a phrase that should have come out of American baseball. You know, as in ‘behind the curve ball’. Apparently it has nothing to do with baseball. Shame. What is also a shame is that Ed Miliband and the leadership seem to be consistently behind the curve. Now there [...]
Ed needs to grow some!
What a shame! This conference could have been the time for the present generation of Labour leaders to set out their stall and highlight the differences between themselves and the government. They could have knocked on the head the charge that they are ‘Tory light’ and that the real opposition is Clegg’s Liberals inside the [...]
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
When Blue Labour talks about immigration as a way to reconnect with Labour’s core voters, they are very clever in skirting the real issue. They prefer the Phil Woolas style of competing with the far right. They avoid getting into the argument of immigration being used to hold down wages. If they did then they [...]
Show us the beef
Blue Labour? Purple Book? We seem to be getting very populist arguments coming from some in the parliamentary party and our think tank gurus. It’s worth remembering that majority of PLP members voted for David Miliband, the recognised Blairite candidate. So when we get policies being pushed which are far from what we have seen [...]
Faux feminism and the gender balanced leadership
There is a suggestion that the Labour Party rules should direct that where the Leader is male, the Deputy Leader should be female, and presumable vice versa. It makes me want to howl at not only how unfeminist it is as a proposal but how anti-feminist the effects could be. This is a notably warped [...]
Labour: Reconnecting with its core vote
From both the left and right of the party there have been calls to look at how it can rebuild its relationship with those voters it considers its most reliable supporters. The first problem is identify who this ‘core vote’ consists of. The over-simplification is it’s the white working class, but a little thought will [...]
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