Clearly the game is up for the imposition of the regime's long-standing front man-in-waiting onto the Party and the country ploy. Why take this haggard, ill-advised, non neuro -typical displaying all the characteristics of his status in control-freakery and inability to understand why he is offensively unacceptable to the rest of us, when there are ambitious and competent (if variously unattractive politically to some of us) politicians with widespread support in the diverse colleges of the Party's electoral structure? Why let this vicious but fragile personality buckle under the weight of power in a fashion that has been seen only twice in the last hundred years - MacDonald and Eden.
The risk of events wholly overwhelming the Leader is too great to be taken - Iraq, the Lisbon conference and the non referendum on the new EU constitution, the punitively high taxation rates on Labour's natural supporters, the financial incompetence revealed by a bank run (in 2007!), the threatening debt and housing crisis, the Scottish loss and their government's political skill and grace in governance enhanced by their goading of Westminster, the permanent alienation of the grass roots Party, denied a vote in their own leadership contest; his replacement is an imperative - Brown must go.
Who, to hold the fort for the next three years till 2010 while Labour finds and grows its David Cameron? Straw. They will take the Straw man for the stop gap. And who is the emerging Leader? Look for a Midlands based , union connected, highly skilled, technically competent, socially conservative, quite possibly, woman.
No, I have no name to put forward, but Gordon Brown is so over, he must be withdrawn.
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Absolutely HG if the Labour Party isn't prepared to get rid of the Stalinist queer then one begins to question whether a coup isn't necessary before we can return to democracy
Labour's imposed Leader is more of an outrage to any left of centre (i.e.right)-thinking person than he is to all the rest of the population Elby.
A propos of an earlier post which the usual suspects have tried to comment on as proof of my 'anti-gay bigotry' Burgess said,
"The title of the book [Clockwork Orange] comes from an old London expression, which I first heard from a very old Cockney in 1945: 'He's as queer as a clockwork orange' (queer meaning mad...). I liked the phrase because of its yoking of tradition and surrealism, and I determined some day to use it."
'Others have noted how the title craftily blends the automatic (clockwork) with the organic (orange), which is appropriate considering the profoundly screwed up mind of the main character... It also makes sense that the title comes from the vernacular, since the book is written in an imaginary future slang.
Alex and his droogs would be proud they coined a phrase with so many uses.'
What can be done to move the grass roots to join Rose and her younger comrades-in -arms to get rid of him?
ND points gloomily to the failure to stop Stalin by the Party even though Lenin himself warned about him.
All this reduction of numbers of soldiers in Iraq - just full of weasel words and double counting. The Czech Republic is withdrawing its soldiers from the Basra area too, and the Poles have said they are leaving - it sounds more EU ish than a sovereign decision by the Labour regime, particularly as they will be signing up to the EU new constitution fully kitted out with a foreign minister and EU wide foreign policy at the end of this month.
Brown is frightening and weird....
Brown is frightening and weird....
And he's in the way, M. He's been there for decades burrowing away into even the tiniest decision-taking powers and choices made inside the Labour party, like weevil in ship's biscuit. (Actually I'm not to too clear on weevil but to get it out you have to knock the biscuit hard on a hard surface evidently); knocking the Labour party hard on a hard surface - or their heads together - getting nasty whiteish/yellowish/Brownish weevilly worms falling out is what the mass membership could do.
The trouble with being such a control freak is that you can be blamed for failures. Poor old Buggins - it's his turn at last and when he bites into the orange of power he finds it's been sucked dry of all its rewarding juice by the previous incumbent.
But people misconnect - "The Boys From The Blackstuff" was about Callaghan's government, not Thatcher's. If the Conservatives (not that I necessarily think they're the answer) want to avoid this trap, they should now begin making constant reference to various aspects of Brown's economic mismanagement so that, should they ever regain power, the electorate can remember who caused the mess that needs cleaning up.
Education, (x 3).
You are right that the visceral 'thatcherite! (sneer, hate, hate)' response should actually be 'transition, end of heavy industry, Callaghan (sneer, hate, hate)' response.
So much of the ideological evil, and lack of political or social co-operativeness, compounded with authoritarian self-preservation in power that typifies, now, the dominant voice in the current regime is presented as Labour but is nothing to do with the fraternal, co-operative, reasonable very English give and take politics that once typified the party.
You are right, too, S, that education, including the wider sense of skilling, is their greatest betrayal. They turned education into a WEA class for self growth and the more fulfilled intellect, rather than the do or die equipment for life in the necessary understandings and capacities to earn a living in a global economy.
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