Tom Harris puts his right-wing credentials to the test, and he’s damned proud of them too!
Now that I’ve written it down, a pattern emerges: I’m considered insufferably right wing because I actually believe in what the last Labour government did. I wasn’t just going along with it out of self-interest – I genuinely thought we were doing the right thing and that I should defend it
Yes, Tom… did you actually notice we lost the election by any chance?
Ah, so winning is more important than principle, eh?
No, not at all, but the Labour right are forever telling us that they are the ones in touch with the electorate. All I am pointing out is that Harris’ selective policy choices hardly received the ecstatic endorsement of the electorate, and some, like Trident, 42-day detention and continuing to delude himself that the war in Iraq was the right thing to do would not get a majority at Labour Party conference anyway… which is why they don’t allow debate on them..
Come on Bob, name calling is really not helpful, unless you writing about those b@stard Tories/
Joe, I’m not sure it is a particularly offensive reference. Perhaps you misread it.
obviously my mistake.
incidently my daughter tells me that the these days the danish king of tidal fame is pronounced “kernut” rather than kernewt” as I’d always thought..
things you learn eh?
Personally, I think the public tired of policies that neither reflect the Country or the Labour Party and listened more to the 100,000 members that left, than to the rest that stayed.
Maybe the Tower Hamlets story reflects the whole mess more correctly and speaks volumes of a renegade NEC and yet another lunatic regional director.
“I genuinely thought we were doing the right thing” is so close to Tony Blair’s “I did what I believed to be right”. Of course, everybody else doesn’t believe this.