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Why is Dr Jon Cruddas not standing? He is by far the best candidate!! A leadership election without him will be an opportunity sorely missed
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph today, Mr. Balls said: “We just lost our way on some issues in the second term.”
The fact of the matter is that Labour has lost all credibility after thirteen years of mendacity, sleaze and sheer, mind-boggling incompetence.
On a personal front, the three architects of the New Labour project have shown themselves to be such unappealing characters: Blair the Liar, Brown, the economic incompetent who has dropped us all in the deepest, thickest “brown stuff” imaginable, and Mandleson, the Wicked Fairy, waving her malevolent wand over all and sundry. These three pantomime characters surrounded themselves with a host of political midgets, some of whom will now fight for the party leadership. We know from the many insiders who have published their diaries, that these characters did not trust each other and employed hosts of “advisors and spokespersons” to plot against each other. Why should anyone else trust them?
Until the Labour party faces up to its deep flaws and short-comings, its future looks extremely bleak. It desperately needs some people with integrity, brains and political astuteness. It needs to replace Brown’s despicable and sordid “moral compass” with an ethos to inspire. I don’t see that happening sometime soon.
I am surprised that Labour has not made more of the abolition of EMA. It really is a lifeline for poorer students and I fear its abolition will truly discourage poorer students from staying on at college. Surely that is retrogressive and will not help the poor. Is anybody on the progressive opposition side going to take up the EMA mantle??? Who is going to champion the rights of poorer students for whom the EMA is a necessity, not a luxury!!! Those poorer students whom Nick Clegg claims he is the champion of need to be supported throughout and after they have left school. Receipt of EMA can make all the difference between staying at college and doing nothing at all and becoming a NEAT
I’m waiting for your critique of Jack Straw’s prisons policy against that of Ken Clarke’s. Would you dare publish anything that goes against the former?
Have a look to see how this local initiative over the Labour leadership contest is going – http://dronfieldblather.blogspot.com/2010/06/calling-those-with-voting-rights-in.html
Its birth is explained in the following item which I placed on the Fabiano Society web-site “Next Left” – http://wwwnextleft.org/2010/06/case-for-ralphs-milibandism.html
Andy Burnham has replied and will produce a personal manifesto in line with our call. Our actions might now get replies out of the other 4 candidates. But backing and help to raise our profile would be welcome.