pompous, thoroughly second-rate pol, standard issue accountant skills wedded to the usual hyper-vanity quotient pols need to keep facing what they see in the mirror every day and keep smiling for the cameras.
where are the fire-breathers?
who will be the next keir hardie?
maybe there's just no reason for a labour party, now the factories that fueled their early rise are all in china! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
maybe there's just no reason for a labour party, now the factories that fueled their early rise are all in china!
That is of course the point.
Blue collar work is pretty much dead or overseas. In a world of "Intellectual Capital" and "Knowledge Value", what is the point of "Labour"? "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
or boring old fraudulent farts party.
cameron's gonna cream the election, i'm beginning to wonder how it would be worse, tbg will doubtless enlighten me.
as for the bnp, that's too nasty to contemplate...
if brown's labour party is the bulwark holding that back then britain's in deeper shit even than i thought. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Two items - one was a feature praising the robust effectiveness of McCain's speech. The other was an op ed which said 'The UK is full! Immigrants go home!'
So - the working classes who don't vote for Cameron will vote for the BNP.
I'd guess there's also going to be a significant switch from some of the more hardcore Labour voters to the BNP. I wouldn't be so very surprised to see the BNP winning a seat or ten.
Nu Lab meanwhile has become a failed middle class party. It's going to be eaten from the top by the Tories and from the bottom by the racists.
A few of the more well intentioned types will move to the Lib Dems. But by avoiding the malodorous prole vote, the Lib Dems have doomed themselves - and possibly the entire country.
too bad about the lib dems, clegg talks a good line, but it seems the libdems are the tweedledoo party to go to if tired of tweedledee and tweedledumb.
so the whole menu stinks.
i hope sven's right and something more co-operative comes along to vote for, something europewide.
screaming lord sutch'd do a better job than this lot. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Blue collar work is pretty much dead or overseas. In a world of "Intellectual Capital" and "Knowledge Value", what is the point of "Labour"?
Bashing Mexicans? (Or Poles in y'all's case, I guess?) Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
