|  | |  | | | | | | Ideology | | It would be nice if you had more on the ideology of the Labour party over the last 100 years. | | Fred Danob | 21/04/2005 | |  | | Shattered shibboleths - Response | | Interesting viewpoint, but missing it. The middle classes have been bribed into subservience by the rise in house prices. Will they allow the incompetent to return from the grave that they had been thought to have been interred, with or without the requisite wooden stake in the appropriate place?
I agree totally that the "poor" working classes have improved their opportunities and chances, and also that the so called ruling classes have been shown to be at most irrelevant. But the middle classes have never had it so good, and they will be the ones who will vote Blair back into power, with Brown following him as the next PM. Why rock the boat if it is sailing nicely along, and the passengers are not getting their feet wet or even slightly chilled?
The next leader of the opposition will probably be Wee Malkie Rifkind, who will lead the Tories to another glorious defeat, as the baggage he carries will make Mikey Howard look like a ladies purse rather than even a handbag.
Complain all you like about Iraq, but if Saddam had the weapons he actually believed he had, would he have not used them - or allowed some totally deniable group to use them if he felt it would have advanced his, or his sons' power. And just think of having the Tories back in power for another twenty years as the only party who could Little England safe.
Blair was given the information, and he had to make the decision - and put yourself in his position - YOU are responsible for the safety of the citizens of this country, what would be your decision, and what would your thoughts be if the country was attacked, and the thoughts be of those who survived, and which noose would you like to have your neck placed for the incompetence that would make the Major administration look like Andy Pandy and Looby Loo (OK but Ken Clark still looks like Teddy Bear, and Lamont in Scotland is still pronounced Lament).
Live Long and prosper under Labour. | | Ray Merrall | 09/02/2005 | | | | Send us your response to this article. | | |
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| | original article » | | New Labour's ideology has moved beyond traditional ideas of left and right. | | Tom Freke | | 09/02/2005 | | Lurking somewhere underneath all the froth about Blair versus Brown lies a curious desire. Digging down beneath the personality conflicts, the who-said-what-to-who nonsense that fills the papers, you find a solid ideological layer. But, as you look closer, this ideological substance itself disintegrates, for there is very little to choose between the two politicians in terms of ideas or policies.
Instead, the difference – and probably the cause for much of the arguments – is the ideological projections by people outside the government. Political commentators, party activists and, to a limited extent, the general population, want politics to be ideological, for it to be a battle between big ideas, and they project this desire onto rivalry for leadership of the Labour Party.
Since Tony Blair came to power in 1997, British politics has appeared to be an ideology-free zone. You can tell this if you try to answer the question, what does this government stand . . . read » | | | | "What a genius the Labour Party has for cutting itself in half and letting the two parts writhe in public" (Cassandra, aka William Neil Cannon). | | Copyright © 2003-2010 ak13.com. All rights reserved. | |
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