There's Something About Gordon

[annajaneclare]

More of a note to myself than anything else - remember to ask mother (whenever she comes back from Europe) if Dad went to the Labour Party Conference in 1978. I am sure I clocked him in the audience on Channel 4 News last night when they were showing footage of Jim Callahan addressing the conference

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[burkesworks]

He sounds and looks very authoritarian which is a worry, in a way

That's because he is; don't be fooled by the fact that he is Not Tony. If you vote for his party, I hope you like ID Cards, the National Identity Register, and the national DNA database. And don't worry if you don't love Big Brother, you will soon learn how.

Yes, the Conservatives still hate poor people, but at least they're honest about it. They just say "Fuck you, we're Conservatives". This lot spin and gyrate and spout out weasel words while all the while stigmatising the poorest people all along; their treatment of disability benefit claimants in particular has been woeful. I wonder if Labour still receives money from notorious loan sharkssub-prime lenders Provident Financial to sponsor fringe meetings? And don't even get me started on their attitude towards higher education.

(Charles Kennedy) was doing well in the polls until he got the whistle blown on his drink problem.Who do you think shot him down

[annajaneclare]

If you vote for his party, I hope you like ID Cards, the National Identity Register, and the national DNA database.

I don't vote Labour. Never have done, probably never will.

[jcortese]

Tread very carefully when politicians use the word "immorality." VERY carefully. It's a short step frmo there to them bringing up Gog and Magog in meetings with Jacques Chirac and leaving his staff wondering which new al Qaeda operatives are acting up.

I'm dead serious. The ONLY thing that should matter is people's actions on society, which means that the proper word for such things is "anti-social behavior." Fuck morality.

Watching this insane predilection to bring up religion publicly among politicians that's now surfacing in the UK is like watching wildfires and deserts starting to pop up in southern Europe, spreading northward from the Sahara goddamned desert. That's global warming; when deserts leap seas and start spreading out in places they never were before. That's what happening now -- this is a disgusting, many-century slide back into religious insanity, on all continents. It's not just Islamic fundamentalism. It's spreading all over, and we are on the downward slope, and when your politicians starts sounding

[annajaneclare]

Don't worry. I'm not likely to. I just found it interesting in the light of Blair's approach.

[buddleia]

I don't like Gordon Brown very much, but I doubt there's a politician around with the drive and kill-instinct to become PM that I ever would like. I think GB might be a party man instead of a diva, and that's a good thing. I will never forgive Blair for blackmailing the entire spineless government over Iraq. Never.
It's a grudge worth holding, in my opinion.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Jesus Christ, does no-one remember Thatcher? The reason public services are still kind of fucked up is because they were gutted, skinned and hung out to dry with their intestines dangling by the Tories in the 80s.

[annajaneclare]

I will never forgive Blair for blackmailing the entire spineless government over Iraq. Never.

You and a lot of voters. That was the main reason they were so desperate to get rid of the bastard.