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Even the Guardian doesn't know what to do.
Should we back Gordy or sack him?
I personally don't think that getting rid of him would do much good, but then he's doing a crap job. call an election and get it over with? hell no.
the country needs some stability, esp with the economy as it is, and a governing party tearing itself apart won't do much good.
bloody hell
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Labour leadership
Penny for a thought. Or rather, penny for a good idea. I have a horrible feeling i'm quite representative of the party at large because I have no idea. We're all pretty demoralised and undecided.
Should we ditch Gordy?
If we do, who do we want to replace him?
Would we need an election straight away?
can it get any worse?
will it get any better?
gah, no idea
Should we ditch Gordy?
If we do, who do we want to replace him?
Would we need an election straight away?
can it get any worse?
will it get any better?
gah, no idea
Quote of the day
From here
[Brown’s] failure has allowed Cameron, a millionaire who paid off one mortgage so that the taxpayer could pay off another, to pose as the white knight of the expenses affair.
[Brown’s] failure has allowed Cameron, a millionaire who paid off one mortgage so that the taxpayer could pay off another, to pose as the white knight of the expenses affair.
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Reasons to be cheerful
Rather than doing a big long rant about how crap the Tories are, temping though it is, I like to occasionally look to the brighter side of things.
Steve Richards has spoken of the moment of calm between expenses and the election outcome, and how the economic measures (fiscal stimulus etc.) might just have done the job.
House prices are rising, Labour's hit bottom, the economy is steadying as a result of government action, government bonds are flying off the shelves like hot cakes, Cameron is still largely singing from Labour's hymn sheet,
On the Tories: "So far only a few Conservatives MPs have expressed in private their anger that Cameron claimed the maximum allowance to help pay for his country home while he has told others who claimed less that they had acted in ways that were unacceptable"
The Tories economic plans would mean serious disaster for some people, often those least likely to vote Tory, with their opposition to Northern Rock being taken over, fiscal stimulus, borrowing.... Sorry, Tory-bashing again.
Steve Richards has spoken of the moment of calm between expenses and the election outcome, and how the economic measures (fiscal stimulus etc.) might just have done the job.
House prices are rising, Labour's hit bottom, the economy is steadying as a result of government action, government bonds are flying off the shelves like hot cakes, Cameron is still largely singing from Labour's hymn sheet,
On the Tories: "So far only a few Conservatives MPs have expressed in private their anger that Cameron claimed the maximum allowance to help pay for his country home while he has told others who claimed less that they had acted in ways that were unacceptable"
The Tories economic plans would mean serious disaster for some people, often those least likely to vote Tory, with their opposition to Northern Rock being taken over, fiscal stimulus, borrowing.... Sorry, Tory-bashing again.
Fabian lecture with David Miliband
I went along to another Fabian event last night.
I was not happy by just how posh they all were. I felt, and sounded, like the only one there who hadn't been privately educated then through the usual Oxbridge channels.
This is what I mean aboiut glory hunters, people who want power but don't really know why they want it.
No wonder people are pissed off and alienated. Those people have their own agenda, which tends to be their own fulfilment, while anyone else can go hang.
These are LABOUR people, and yet because of the entrencement of the political class, even someone like me who is university educated, has a masters, is too common to get a response from them.
This is also my problem with having too many administrators and too few politicians - people who are moved by their own career more than by any great sense of politics. Too few who are scared to loose power because that's all they're interested in
I was not happy by just how posh they all were. I felt, and sounded, like the only one there who hadn't been privately educated then through the usual Oxbridge channels.
This is what I mean aboiut glory hunters, people who want power but don't really know why they want it.
No wonder people are pissed off and alienated. Those people have their own agenda, which tends to be their own fulfilment, while anyone else can go hang.
These are LABOUR people, and yet because of the entrencement of the political class, even someone like me who is university educated, has a masters, is too common to get a response from them.
This is also my problem with having too many administrators and too few politicians - people who are moved by their own career more than by any great sense of politics. Too few who are scared to loose power because that's all they're interested in
Rant
Bloody hell.
First, Alistair Darling. I'm a fan. I think he's a level-headed, chilled and dependable minister. I've got great faith in Darling, despite Brown's meddling in the treasury.
To see him being hounded out is pretty sad, as he's doing a pretty good job all told.
I'm a fan of Ed Balls, so I wouldn't really mind him taking over. But not when Darling is doing ok, and he's a bit young.
On Today this morning they reported the Daily Mail calling him a 'a middle-class-hating Socialist zealot'. What a load of bollocks.
Then Cameron was on Today talking about expenses. He was asked what he plans for 'reasonable' expenses were, how he would define them. He said that it was what a reasonable person would believe reasonable, and would be no more committal than that. What bollocks, talk about having no conviction. He is talking some good talk about reform and some good things, but then he goes and lets himself down by not backing up his grand words, typical of the man
First, Alistair Darling. I'm a fan. I think he's a level-headed, chilled and dependable minister. I've got great faith in Darling, despite Brown's meddling in the treasury.
To see him being hounded out is pretty sad, as he's doing a pretty good job all told.
I'm a fan of Ed Balls, so I wouldn't really mind him taking over. But not when Darling is doing ok, and he's a bit young.
On Today this morning they reported the Daily Mail calling him a 'a middle-class-hating Socialist zealot'. What a load of bollocks.
Then Cameron was on Today talking about expenses. He was asked what he plans for 'reasonable' expenses were, how he would define them. He said that it was what a reasonable person would believe reasonable, and would be no more committal than that. What bollocks, talk about having no conviction. He is talking some good talk about reform and some good things, but then he goes and lets himself down by not backing up his grand words, typical of the man
Monday, 1 June 2009
English Democrats Party
I'm all for free speech, even when the following is said.
Should this guy ever be elected?
No, but he's standing. Let's hope the public do the right thing.
"ENGLISH DRINKING RULE
A Polish guy drinks his beer then suddenly throws his glass in the air, pulls out a pistol and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In Poland our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same glass twice'
A Pakistani, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47 and shoots the glass to pieces.
He says, 'In Pakistan we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either.'
A English chap, cool as a cucumber, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the Pole and the Pakistani and catches his glass.
He says, 'In England we now have that many Pakistanis and Poles that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice.
God Bless England!"
Good work
Should this guy ever be elected?
No, but he's standing. Let's hope the public do the right thing.
"ENGLISH DRINKING RULE
A Polish guy drinks his beer then suddenly throws his glass in the air, pulls out a pistol and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In Poland our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same glass twice'
A Pakistani, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47 and shoots the glass to pieces.
He says, 'In Pakistan we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either.'
A English chap, cool as a cucumber, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the Pole and the Pakistani and catches his glass.
He says, 'In England we now have that many Pakistanis and Poles that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice.
God Bless England!"
Good work
Tax avoiding/evading bastards
Right, not too sure which is the legal one and which the illegal one, but I accidently ran into a story on the Daily Mail site about footballers looking at ways they can get around paying tax.
Now, I don't believe the vast majority of what's in the Mail, but it's about tax so let's go with it.
If it's true, big if, then it's disgusting and I hope the treasury is looking into to many of the ways that people get around paying tax. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, you pay your taxes. Now I'm all for higher marginal rates, and if someone does something illegal punish them in the proper way. If it means some people move abroad to escape, let them go. BUT DON'T then put them in the Lords and put them in charge of Tory Party policy like Lord Bastard Ashcroft. No representation without taxation.
Now, I don't believe the vast majority of what's in the Mail, but it's about tax so let's go with it.
If it's true, big if, then it's disgusting and I hope the treasury is looking into to many of the ways that people get around paying tax. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, you pay your taxes. Now I'm all for higher marginal rates, and if someone does something illegal punish them in the proper way. If it means some people move abroad to escape, let them go. BUT DON'T then put them in the Lords and put them in charge of Tory Party policy like Lord Bastard Ashcroft. No representation without taxation.
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