Monday, May 14, 2007
If there had actually been a Robocop or a Terminator, would he have surfed the web?
That might have put him off doing his dirty work as he might have found the gentility and decency which still lurks there not in accordance with his personal ethic. Maybe we can still find some remnants of good government in UK Labor.
With Blair, Labour is 4% behind the Tories, when voters are asked how they will vote when Brown becomes leader the gap widens to 10%. He told a US interviewer "I take responsibility, as does the whole of the cabinet, for decisions we made on Iraq. There will be no sense in which we seek to walk away from decisions we made." That should be worth a few votes for John McDonnell.
Benn is rumoured to have less than two-dozen MP backers. I do not know if his alleged financial gains are partly responsible for this.
McDonnell and Meacher called for a debate on the future direction of the Labour Party. They complained about growing inequality in Britain and a lack of affordable housing. "We've lost touch with our voters ... and we need a genuine renewal," Meacher said. They decided to settle on having McDonnell stand.
Brown said Labour had made progress over the last 10 years but had a lot more to do, pledging to work on reducing poverty among children and pensioners. But he rejected a return to high-spending policies that he said had undermined past Labour governments.
IMO: Actually a very good point and to be pleased about. But otherwise he seems to be cloning Blair a bit, with far less good spin, so far.
Well Blair certainly did not keep us out of Iraq. But possibly this had to do with yet another alleged CIA coup attempt and in retrospect his intervention in Iraq may have been forced on him, though I doubt it. If Brown really does have "a brain the size of Mars" as Mr McDonnell apparently said a day or two ago, I hope he will use it sensibly and other than to amass money for himself (allegedly quite a lot so far, a starting figure of £1.8 million was mentioned in the Press I believe) and instead to help the poor, the sick, the elderly and all the other things like global warming, world peace etc etc.
IMO: However, just as it was said somewhat disparagingly of one US senator, "let's face it, he's no JFK" it is perhaps not yet time to say of Brown "Let's face it, he's no Beveridge" but signs are not promising. One may well feel that McDonnell or Meacher should be PM.
Actually McDonnell seem to be currently having better Google showings than Brown, details here.
With Blair, Labour is 4% behind the Tories, when voters are asked how they will vote when Brown becomes leader the gap widens to 10%. He told a US interviewer "I take responsibility, as does the whole of the cabinet, for decisions we made on Iraq. There will be no sense in which we seek to walk away from decisions we made." That should be worth a few votes for John McDonnell.
Benn is rumoured to have less than two-dozen MP backers. I do not know if his alleged financial gains are partly responsible for this.
McDonnell and Meacher called for a debate on the future direction of the Labour Party. They complained about growing inequality in Britain and a lack of affordable housing. "We've lost touch with our voters ... and we need a genuine renewal," Meacher said. They decided to settle on having McDonnell stand.
Brown said Labour had made progress over the last 10 years but had a lot more to do, pledging to work on reducing poverty among children and pensioners. But he rejected a return to high-spending policies that he said had undermined past Labour governments.
IMO: Actually a very good point and to be pleased about. But otherwise he seems to be cloning Blair a bit, with far less good spin, so far.
Well Blair certainly did not keep us out of Iraq. But possibly this had to do with yet another alleged CIA coup attempt and in retrospect his intervention in Iraq may have been forced on him, though I doubt it. If Brown really does have "a brain the size of Mars" as Mr McDonnell apparently said a day or two ago, I hope he will use it sensibly and other than to amass money for himself (allegedly quite a lot so far, a starting figure of £1.8 million was mentioned in the Press I believe) and instead to help the poor, the sick, the elderly and all the other things like global warming, world peace etc etc.
IMO: However, just as it was said somewhat disparagingly of one US senator, "let's face it, he's no JFK" it is perhaps not yet time to say of Brown "Let's face it, he's no Beveridge" but signs are not promising. One may well feel that McDonnell or Meacher should be PM.
Actually McDonnell seem to be currently having better Google showings than Brown, details here.
# posted by uv : 10:18 AM
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