Peter Hitchins explains how Kinnock and Blair have taken the Labour Party to the left…. New Labour isn’t right wing at all.
“…lifelong leftists gain too much joy from believing themselves to be in internal exile. They hate to admit that they are in fact in power. That would compel them to think, an unsettling activity. It would also make them at least partly responsible for the Blair government.”
There you go then, I knew the left would get the blame somewhere. Not only, apparently, are the Blairites secret agents of Trotskism, but the Tories have also been infiltrated by members of the 4th International. However, the Hitch has another scenario which has more than the whiff of the jackboot about it.
“For if the Tory party flies apart in a shameful, hope-crushing fourth defeat, the great disenfranchised millions of ex-Labour and Tory voters – who still dare to have rightwing ideas in a nation ruled by liberals – may take the opportunity to find a common cause against the centre in whatever new movement results.”
I’ve lost count of the new schools and hospitals we’ve got and are having. I think we’re up to four (or is it five?)new hospitals being built also.
Anti Blairite’s (eh?)haven’t got a good word to say about any of it at all.
“It’s the ruination of us and the Party” (eh?)
“Tax credits are a rip off”
” You have to wait 10 weeks to see a consultant, not 8, the lying *****!!”
“This Blair is a **** for doing all this to us”
“Can’t wait for Blair to go and Gordon come in”
“Brown is a **** too!”
I kid you not.
Gary.
I believe there were free drinks in Sandwell last night?
Kevin Phillips put £60m over the bar.
Oooooh. Cruel. I think I’ll use that a few times tomorrow.
Bugger off
Touchy, John.
(If you want a lift next Tuesday, text me)