Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for nine years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
Getting down wiv the yoof... innit! This is frankly... just embarrassing. Particularly the bit that goes...
I don't think Gordon Brown understands the changes that are happening in our world. He's still too attached to the old politics - where power and decision-making lies in the hands of a few at the very top. My generation, however, instinctively understands these changes.
We used to have all this crap from Tony Blair's people. An 'image thing' dreamt up by some plonker from Millbank with a pony tail and red braces. Oh well, I suppose it's a phase they've got to go through, but for most young people the sight of a bloke in a suit with an open-necked shirt, trying to be one of them, is deeply buttock clinchingly piss-poor embarrassing.
Cameron isn't trying to be 'one of us', but that doesn't mean he can't understand what the voters care about. Cameron talks in the same language as people outside the Westminster village, which separates him from the vast majority of politicians.
Brown is himself trying to become Bliar though in terms of Policy , academies ,welfare reform etc...and ID cards
Brown is an old fashioned type of Poltician and I thought you were going to be nice to Conservatives now. After all ,unless quite a few vote for you you are out.
Actually, newmania, you are obviously having as much difficulty reading English as youhave in writing it. I never, for one nanosecond even, said I was going to be nice to Conservatives... nor will I ever say that.
Of course Brown is an old fashioned politician. So are the Conservative leadership. Bank managers who wore beads at the weekend were never hippies.
Incidentally, I don't rely on Conservative support or votes.
Letters From a Tory... is that why he now 'embraces diversity' but voted to retain Section 28 in 2003?
I don't think Dave's realised that the average age of the electorate at the next General Election will be 58. But then there are only 364 members of the Intelligent Conservatives Group on Facebook. (remember that includes the US if you were surprised that the number was so high)
The Tory Supporters Facebook group, however, looks as will provide hours of harmless amusement - some of the named and photographed supporters have to be seen to be believed.
What was this about then ?
"So, time for a change here too, I think. No more calling Thatcher batty, or Cameron or Boris a toff. No more personalised abuse about David Davis (or David Davies) nor John Hemming... nor, even, bless his cotton socks, Mike Whitby."
That virulent ad hominem streak still seems to be pulsing Bob. I `m not sure thats the new politics myself. People of my generation instinctively understand its about concensus and working together.
You do struggle to keep up don't you? The only abuse in that posting is about people with pony tails and red braces. Now i know that might offend some of your man friends in the City, but it could hardly be classed as 'personal' abuse.
Try to keep up because you make it boring for other people who have to wade through your moronic ramblings.
When David Cameron said at the end of his Guardian online question session: "all I have got is two fingers". Do you think he was waving them at the electorate?
March 4, 2008 10:20 AM | permalink
Cameron isn't trying to be 'one of us', but that doesn't mean he can't understand what the voters care about. Cameron talks in the same language as people outside the Westminster village, which separates him from the vast majority of politicians.