My loathing for the Blair-Brown cabal and the damage they had caused to our democracy overshadowed any concerns I had about Corbyn. We are only now in a position to unwind some of Blair's damage and to start repairing the place. I will not be paying £25 this time around to play with Labour again; it is pointless.
Two-thirds of the public have never heard of any of the Labour candidates; a has-been depressive with a face as long as a snake's arse, a purse-mouthed mekon, the fat lady, the cleaning woman, the plank. Not one of them with the charisma to lead a darts team. Behind them a pool of fools more interested in viciously fighting eachother for power than championing the British people; Lansman, Seamus Milne, the little Owen boy, Cohen, the militants, Trots, Fabians and prosecco classes.
One of these lefty rags published over the weekend the sort of throwback article of the sort favoured by Socialist Worker; Tory cuts, Tory destruction of the workers,Tory hatred of the North. It was illustrated by this photograph, captioned 'Ten years of Tory cuts';
With thanks to my new-found picture searching skills, I identified it as of Alfreton Road in Nottingham, a solid Labour council for generations. BTL comments from Nottingham residents had much criticism of the Labour city council's mismanagement of the commercial centre, lack of support for business and innovation, and suffocating municipal socialism. In other words of Labour cuts, Labour destruction of the workers, Labour hatred of the North. They should have captioned it 'Ten years of Labour neglect'.
We've destroyed Labour in parliament. Now we should remove their scourge from the town halls, and truly liberate the British people; those shops should be hipster start-ups, pop up restaurants, print-makers' galleries or the scores of other businesses that bloom and flourish under good local economic management. The waste of good buildings with life left in them is criminal - and Labour are the criminals. Let's turf them out altogether.
Not forgetting the wonderful job Nottingham City Council have made of energy supply !!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/04/jeremy-corbyns-energy-supplier-robin-hood-energy-delays-accounts/
The discussion on yesterday's Coffee House Shots podcast was that the person the Tories should fear most in Dan Jarvis. I haven't seen him tested but he has all the credentials to be good Blue Labour style leader.
ReplyDeleteAnd Nottingham has a workplace parking tax!
ReplyDeleteMy wished for new Labour leader is Richard Burgon; can you imagine the endless entertainment that would be at PMQ's, we'd be splitting our sides. Worth £25?
ReplyDeleteSadly not on the contenders list....so far.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to add Council Taxation, Business Rates, endless H&S and environment rules, EU Red Tape, minimum wage requirements, employment laws (maternity) etc etc. Generally ALL things .gov-inspired.
Businesses fail due to excessive costs - and most of those costs are 'demands' by people that have no desire to see the business succeed - rather they see it as a cash-nipple to suck at until it withers and sags like a wet carrier bag. They know exactly how much to sup to keep the business alive and 'giving' but couldn't give a damn when they overstep the mark - some other sucker will always step up and create another.
Cutting some slack would go a LONG way to help businesses survive.
In addition to opposing Brexit, in Starmer's potted biography he claims his primary political concerns are Human Rights, Criminal Law and Refugees. And, like Brexit, I don't doubt his opinions on these issues are diametrically opposed to the concerns of the vast majority of working class voters.
ReplyDeleteSo he'd be a good choice for Labour. But if I was going to stump up £25 to vote (I'm not) it would be for Emily Thornberry. The prospect of seeing the condescending Lady Nugee "campaigning" in parts of the country Labour abandoned years decades ago - wrinkling her little piggy nose at the views of the peasants and the conditions they live in - would be hilarious.
It's one of life's ironies that the Conservatives are not as affected by non-delivery of promises since they don't normally espouse big changes. Labour who promise big society changing policies get into power and then don't know what to do with it. Hence the Labour party is losing its grip in traditional areas (Scotland, north Wales, the'red wall') as their ineffectiveness becomes apparent, and their mass of policies in the last manifesto seen as undeliverable.
ReplyDeleteThe tories have "borrowed" my vote. The first thing I want to see is this country out of the EU.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, Boris can fuck things up, and fuck up A LOT (this is the tory party after all).
What will keep my vote is firm evidence that he intends to end the war on Britain. For those who haven't had the pleasure, labour's "race and faith" manifesto is a perfect distillation. Such "thinking" is not just the purview of the communists of course as just about ANYTHING from the BBC shows. The BBC is low hanging fruit. I don't doubt it will double down on it's anti British hate. I'm expecting something like Jane Austen to get the treatment next. A black Mr Darcy?
Labour may well be beyond salvation. The hard left will not give up without a fight and they are stuck to labour like shit to a blanket. Will "labour voters" have the patience to wait?
I certainly get the feel that there is something in the air which is not easy to pin down. My take is the above. The tories could do SO much for SO little real effort. Attack the cancer at its heart by using the weapons they have put in place against them. Take our culture and country back. Let decent British people know who's side they're on.
The chances of the tories fucking this all up are greater than evens I would have thought but I for one am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt.
If they do revert to type after having been given this chance, we may well see politics in this country turning ugly.
What amazes me is why anyone wants to lead the Labour party at the moment. They are a shambles and clearly wont win the next election so whoever wins the leadership contest will be tainted. It's the election after that they should be aiming for.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is that these politicians think they are much better than they actually are and they don't know they are despised by the majority of the population.
But as you said above-lets enjoy the infighting.
Jaded
You have identified the reason why the much feted return of the other Milipede brother has not happened. He knows that the next great leader(s) will spend at least five years in the political wilderness trying to avoid a knife in the back. His ambitions have probably been delayed by a decade, but he has got half a million a year running a charity as compensation.
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ReplyDelete"The chances of the tories fucking this all up are greater than evens I would have thought but I for one am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Very interesting to hear from a chap who "lent" his vote. I think your sentence above is probably the most telling reason why you and millions like you switched sides for the first time is decades. Such clarity in just one sentence!
If Labour continue with their remain/rejoin agenda, support the EU rather than the UK in the forthcoming negotiations, describe their voters as stupid and continue to vote at their party conferences for “extending” freedom of movement (to the whole world?) then I think they will decline further whoever is selected as leader.
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1. Get us out of the EU. I'm not bothered so much about how and, given the spite from the EU and the sabotage of their vichyites here, I don't expect it to be particularly smooth or trouble free but GET IT DONE. Boris is making the right noises at least and seems to be legislating for a clean break at the end of this year. He has put the ball in their court where it belongs.
2. I don't particularly care about this policy or that. Just stop the hate: stop hating British people, WHITE British people who are still the overwhelming majority. Stop sneering and denigrating our history. Stop trying to steal our (immense body) of firsts and achievements and assigning to others (we ALL know what I mean). Stop calling us racists. This is genuinely one of the least racist countries on earth. Immigration MUST be controlled and controlled properly. "Multiculturalism" (see "race and faith" manifesto above) which we all know is bringing in immigrants SPECIFICALLY (as a labour MP admitted a few years ago) to "rub our noses in it" MUST end. If you are Indian or whatever. You can worship as you please, eat what you want etc etc but you must be British first. No ghettos or no go zones if you please. This is Britain, not Lebanon
The tories know this, how can they not. They can do ALL of this really quite easily. All the necessary laws exist.
If they don't - odds better than evens - my vote won't go to labour (choke, cough, spit!) or to any other "mainstream" party.
Carry on like this and they will force us to choose between tyranny and chaos. There are examples throughout history of people having to make that choice. Don't make us!
Your three pounds made no difference, Raedwald. Corbyn won easily without the new signees.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the polling for Keir Starmer, many of the half million or so members did not foresee Corbyn's contortionist position on the European Union, and have learnt a lesson.
But most people are watching the Government under Cummings and his tame monkey, not the Labour Party, understandably enough.
There are rather interesting noises across the web on that too.
"We've destroyed Labour in parliament. Now we should remove their scourge from the town halls, and truly liberate the British people"
ReplyDeletehallelujah!
I've said the same for more years than I care to remember, the real power in the regions and with, the rampant empire building, hundreds of thousands of appartchiks to fork out for. Of metropolitan lav councils. RATES, the tax take is killing SMEs not least small retail outlets aye and throw in compulsory carbon audits waste management and recycling expenses etc small businesses get hammered by that, no wonder fly tipping is a scourge and eyesore - that's a story for another day though.
bin the massive councils, bring back the UDCs and businesses!
As an aside, it's good to see that Lindsay Hoyle has thrown out the idiotic amendment, which would have enabled Big Ben to toll out the UK's leaving the European Union.
ReplyDeleteParliament has more important business.
Such as this:
ReplyDelete"Australia has ruled out a post-Brexit trade deal involving visa-free travel and work arrangements with the UK.
The country’s trade minister, Simon Birmingham, said he feared it could prompt a brain drain from Australia and an influx of low-skilled workers to Sydney and Melbourne.
He said he “can’t imagine full and unfettered free movement” would be on the table during negotiations."
What a hoot eh?
Scared of a brain drain?
DeleteI thought this miserable, windswept hell on earth was just one big concentration camp lit by candles.
Good job grandad semtex didn't win though otherwise we'd be paying to put out all those fires the "climate change" we are responsible for has caused.
A trade deal with Australia would be a good thing. Why on earth anyone (other than an EU negotiator) would ever think that such a deal should reference visas or "work arrangements" is a mystery. Yes, I do know how they work, before another putdown arrives. Sectoral agreements will work just fine.
DeleteMark and others...EXCELLENT coments.
ReplyDeleteRaedwald: "My loathing for the Blair-Brown cabal and the damage they had caused to our democracy overshadowed any concerns I had about Corbyn. We are only now in a position to unwind some of Blair's damage and to start repairing the place."
My feelings exactly. The intentional snide and ruinous changes by those cunts needs stopping and reversing.
JPM re Australia "What a hoot eh?": "He said he “can’t imagine full and unfettered free movement” would be on the table during negotiations."
And so he should, glad to see you're coming over to 'our' point of view...or were you trying to make some other point?
Of those potential new leaders mentioned, LIsa Nandy is the ONLY one who will make any difference, and mainly by being stain free.
Agree re Dan Jarvis. Wes Streeting too.
"We are only now in a position to unwind some of Blair's damage and to start repairing the place"
ReplyDeleteConvenient how we wern't 'now' in a position to roll back the Blair Brown cabal's meddling in the election all that time ago in 2010. But there you go, that's the Tories for you.
@APL - possibly because the Tories had to go into coalition with the LibDems, and they were still at the time dominated by wets who applauded much of what Blair and Brown had done.
ReplyDeleteThat's easy: they were not Conservatives and they certainly weren't Tories.
ReplyDeleteDave, private landlord rents are the main cost which causes many businesses to fold, e.g. £50,000 pa for a greengrocer's premises in an out-of-town parade.
ReplyDeleteLet's not start on pubs.
Mark @ 11:36 Point 2 :
ReplyDeleteI believe a multiracial nation can exist in harmony but a multicultural one cannot.
Harmony, and eventually stability, is not feasible if the nation contains different cultures who want radically different lifestyles and laws.
@ Anonymous 13.27 "the tax take is killing SMEs not least small retail outlets"
ReplyDeleteA combination of the tax take and rising minimum wage just killed off my "little part-time job" in a small, private retail outlet.
Re various remarks about the next Leader but one.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that Stephen Kinnock has kept his head well down during the GE and isn't standing. I guess he knows the next GE is already lost and is waiting to offer his services in 2024.