Archive for the 'Labour' Category
Is Blair a very naughty boy?
Yazan: Sara | 02 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, newspapers
The headline on today’s Guardian letters page says, ‘Tony Blair was’t Labour’s messiah’. Was he a very naughty boy, then? I was also surprised to see the self=description of the author. He signed himself as ‘Frank Jackson, Political education officer, Harlow Labour Party’. A local party with someone dedicated to political education? It sounds like something out of [...]
Labour says criticism by IFS thinktank on cuts is misleading
Yazan: Sara | 25 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, economy
I’m no economist. I’m not going to get into micro-analysis of the Budget or today’s IFS report. But I think those Labour supporters jumping to proclaim the general wonderfulness of the IFS, should remember what they thought of the IFS when they were in government.
So who’s right: Labour activists or Prezza?
Yazan: Sara | 20 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour
Over the past few weeks, Labour activists have filled the blogosphere and Twitter feeds with stories about how much Labour Party membership is growing and how many thousands of Liberal Democrats have joined them. The numbers have grown week on week, so much so that I am surprised not to find that Nick Clegg and [...]
Godwin’s Law and Labour arrogance
Yazan: Sara | 16 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour
Yesterday we learned that former Labour minister Alan Milburn is probably going to be announced later this week as the government’s social mobility czar. I have two problems with this. Firstly I wish we could just have news, not announcements of things that are going to be announced at a later date. Secondly I hate [...]
Watford’s Labour Party really don’t understand how elections work
Yazan: Sara | 06 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, Watford
The Watford Labour Party has published a members’ newsletter and placed a copy online. In the report of May’s local elections it reads: ‘In the Mayoral election, Nigel Bell came a close second’. Which is strange. Because in the vote for Watford’s elected mayor, won for the third time by Lib Dem Dorothy Thornhill, Labour’s [...]
A Major chance for Gordon?
Yazan: Sara | 01 March 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Labour, economy
So the Tories haven’t sealed the deal yet. There seems to be a great deal of puzzlement as to why HM Official Opposition isn’t gliding gracefully into the role of HM Government, most of all from the Conservatives themselves. Even Labour seem confused. Some believe that the Conservatives have been only too ready to sit [...]
Does the Manchester Labour Party believe Gordon Brown is fit to be in Parliament?
Yazan: Sara | 01 March 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour
I wonder if the Manchester Labour Party are going to call for action against Gordon Brown?
No sport please, I’m a socialist
Yazan: Sara | 20 February 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: Labour, sport
On the whole, I’ve tried to stay clear of all the class war rhetoric. It seems clear to me that most Tories were not educated at Eton and that very few Labour voters are sons of coal miners. So it’s irritating and amusing in equal measures when supporters of either party play their stereotyped role. [...]
Do Labour think repossession is ‘a price worth paying’?
Yazan: Sara | 11 February 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: Labour, housing
I was working at my computer this morning and, as is often the case, had Radio 5Live on in the background. Victoria Derbyshire was interviewing Housing Minister John Healey and was discussing the new repossession figures announced today. I couldn’t believe it when I heard Healey say: “For some people home repossession can be the best [...]
And it’s too late baby, now it’s too late
Yazan: Sara | 06 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour
Watching the Labour Party slowly commit political suicide today has been far less pleasant than I would have expected. Switching onto the Daily Politics just before Prime Minister’s Questions, we were treated to Andrew Neil and Nick Robinson joking together about the ridiculous possibility of an imminent coup against Brown. Over in the Commons, Brown managed [...]
