Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
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Only a week to go for those of you around the Capital to pop along to the Shaw Theatre to see the play Maggie's End. As playwright Trevor Wood said,
“There’s little doubt that most Labour supporters would see a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher as the ultimate betrayal by their party and that to acknowledge her in this way would re-open many of the sores of the 1980s."
Maggie's End is as much a clash between Old and New Labour as an indictment of Thatcher's crimes. Because if Gordon Brown misguidedly nationalised Thatcher in death by putting her on a gun carriage, he'd split the country again. Half would cheer, the other half jeer. There would be street parties in the North, Scotland, Wales and, yes, those parts of London and the South England which suffered under her stilettos. With capitalism collapsing, bank nationalisation is the only state funeral Thatcher deserves.
The failure of the free market, deregulated economy is the final nail in the coffin of the greed-is-good culture she championed."
Well, she doesn't have to hang on very long now, and Gordon Brown won't get the chance to make the decision.
Bob Piper said:
April 11, 2009 12:34 PM | permalink
Or, on the other hand, as Peter Oborne (no friend of Labour), writes in today's Daily Mail... "Sorry, but a Tory election victory is far from certain. On current form, Cameron's Tories risk repeating history. His opinion poll lead is still fragile and a hung Parliament is perhaps the most likely outcome."
Counting chickens a bit too early, Tim, can leave you with egg on your face. Sadly, changing blog provider meant that all the similarly smug comments from Tories from 2004/5 were deleted. Which is a pity because it allowed them to slink away and die in the long grass without a permanent obituary.
Yeah, his poll lead is so fragile that the Tories haven't dipped below 40% in any poll in 2009. That's fragile that is. After the magnificent, epoch changing G20 deal, Labour managed to get their deficit to a mere seven points. Go Fourth!
William Cobbett said:
April 12, 2009 3:26 AM | permalink
Good to see that Kevin Maguire still spouts a fountain of crap. He and Mirror suit each other.
Explaination of how the economy is in the mess we find today, with a NuLab government in power for twelve years, Kevin? Not likely. Just keep blaiming Thatch, look haggard, write trash. barely a recommendation for serious pundity, eh?
Only a week to go for those of you around the Capital to pop along to the Shaw Theatre to see the play
April 11, 2009 12:22 PM | permalink
Well, she doesn't have to hang on very long now, and Gordon Brown won't get the chance to make the decision.