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19 Responses to “Dave from the block”
Anon E Mouse
Joe – I want to see Labour produce some policies that may make them electable. Not that drivel from that idiot Ed Balls the other day – some real doable policies that resonate with the electorate.
I am sick of hearing about Inheritance Tax, not because it’s an unfair tax (to tax peoples estates they have paid tax on when they’re dead is sick to me) but because it shows Cameron, by not announcing any other definite policies will drift into power – not through merit but because of the total ineptitude of the Labour Party.
You may have not have an idea of the posters but then who does? Whoever is running Labour at the moment is clueless. I wouldn’t pay half the cabinet in washers – Miliband (both are as bad) should have been sacked as foreign secretary the other day for not supporting Brown. Personally I detest Brown but he is entitled to loyalty or oppose him.
Labour should ignore Cameron like Blair did with Michael Howard – don’t keep chasing his tail.
Left Foot Forward should stop the negative “Tories are bad people” nonsense and start promoting the idea that Labour have something to offer the country and NEED to be re-elected because blah blah blah
When Labour get the guts to call the election, if the negative campaigning is still running all Cameron has to do is put up a poster of Gordon Brown and say “Do you really want five more years of this?” and it will be over.
Cameron may be airbrushed but Brown is an unelected detested thug of a bully who throws mobile phones at his own people. Who do you think the public will vote for?
Shamik Das
Anon, what would you like to see Labour do? We know the policies and personalities you don’t like, so how about some positive suggestions and policy ideas from you as to what you’d like to see implemented.
Anon E Mouse
Shamik – I’d like to see Labour come up with some policies that represent and chime with the people in this country – their paymasters.
I’d like to see the promotion to the cabinet of MP’s that have actually done something in the world rather than going into politics as a career – Ed Miliband? Douglas Alexander? Sarah Tether? What have these people actually done in the real world – who do they represent? Politics should be to affect change and improve the lives of people who are not politicians.
I’d like to see politicians keep their word or don’t give it. The Lisbon Treaty was disgraceful way to treat people in this country – chances are if the case was put with passion it may have been a YES. Since Brown believed it was going to be a NO vote and therefore he’d lose, he knew the government were acting in their own interests and not the countries – don’t treat us as fools.
I’d like to stop the whips in the commons having the bullying power they have over the members – if something is wrong it’s wrong. It then leads to outright hypocrisy – prime example: Jack Straw goes on a “picket line” in Blackburn with his voters to “Save the local post office” then goes into the commons and votes to continue the closure program. Who leant on him I wonder?
I have mentioned no specific policies Labour could implement just general codes of behaviour they don’t live up to. That would be a start but I’ll tell you what Shamik, if you actually believe that Labour with Brown at the helm deserve to be elected then you and anyone else with that mindset are actually
contributing to the very decay that the party suffers.
Give me a couple of days and I’ll mail you and Will some actual policies directly. I am an opinionated Northern, middle aged, working class engineer and not subject to the pampered media studies lawyerly lifestyle you Londoners are.
Perhaps the real answer to your question Shamik is “Get into the real world” – politics is not football or cricket you know.
Martyn Rowe
I entirely agree with Anon E Mouse and I don’t think there is any cogent argument against what has been said. The Lisbon Treaty, the 10p tax band, the belated lack of focus on our troops in Afghanistan, McBride, the Gurkhas debacle – all are shameful incidents and an indictment of Brown’s dreadful leadership.
There has been little denouncement of him from within the party (with some notable exceptions) because he is a crafty and indefatigable clansman who has spent roughly 25 years creating his power-base on placemen within the Labour apparatus. The lack of will to challenge his viewpoint and Brown’s paranoid grasp on absolute power has created a policy-vacuum.
I understand – and I sympathise – that many MPs allowed Brown to achieve power because they a) thought he deserved it and b) were convinced, just like the media, the public and even the oppostion parties that he had a policy masterplan with which he would change Britain.
He didn’t. He had nothing. Power was all he cared about. The Emperor had no clothes.
Now you are stuck with him. He will lose the election, and lose it badly. In the meantime the Labour leadership will become remorselessly negative and nasty and untruthful and scorch the Earth beneath them. Backbench Labour MPs will only be able to sit, mouth the usual lines of narrative support and wait to find out if they’ve been swept away with the anti-Brown sentiment.
Progressive individuals and Labour supporters can surely do nothing but admit that Brown’s coronation has been a disaster. Brown’s years have been a sad era for the left in the UK and hopefully never again will the intellectual vanguards within the movement be so supine in the face of a power-obsessed bully with regard only for himself.
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