Archive for the 'Labour' Category
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: housing, Labour
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 [...]
Does Gordon Brown really care about our elderly?
Yazan: Sara | 18 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour
Today’s Queen’s Speech is widely expected to bring forward a Personal Care at Home Bill, designed to pay for personal care for many pensioners. Reports on its contents suggest that there will be many who fall through this ’safety net’, not least those whose needs are so great that they have to move into residential [...]
A fisking of Labour schmaltz
Yazan: Sara | 16 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Labour
You know that a political party has lost the will to fight when it starts to place its faith in the past, rather than working for the future. Doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook at the moment is a campaign from a few Labour members to have a 2 minute video entitled ‘Against the Odds’, first [...]
Even Tessa's had enough now
Yazan: sarabedford | 04 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour, MPs
It was only a month ago that Gordon Brown was forced to recall Tessa Jowell to the Cabinet, after it looked like he was not only short on gender balance, but also MPs with an iota of credibility willing to serve. Now it appears that the ultimate ‘professional politician’ has had enough. I know she’s [...]
The sorcerer's apprentice
Yazan: sarabedford | 29 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Labour, MPs
It can’t be much fun being Gordon Brown at the moment. Even on holiday, he’s faced with derogatory comments about his dress sense and looks about as relaxed as you would expect for someone who’s become a dead man walking. It’s not much more than a year since he was crowned Labour leader and Prime [...]
Does Watford's MP know anything about the constituency?
Yazan: sarabedford | 28 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, MPs, Watford
On a constituency profile page on her web site, Claire Ward states that: “Two of the Three Rivers wards, Carpenders Park and Oxhey Hall, are to the south of Watford town and include mostly prosperous commuter villages.” Prosperous commuter villages? I like the areas very much (and know them well, having agented both wards for [...]
Oh, what a night!
Yazan: sarabedford | 15 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Labour, Three Rivers
Tonight’s full Council meeting was up to its usual standards of joy and happiness for all. Apparently anyone who mentions that successive Conservative and Labour governments have closed Post Offices is ‘playing politics’. The Conservative group tried a ‘delete all and insert’ type amendment to try and hide their shame of having begun the closure programme [...]
