Welfare Reform Act – from the Lords public gallery 2009
November 26th, 2014
This was written over five years ago by a lady visiting the House of Lords public gallery to witness the passage of the Welfare Reform Act. It tells you everything you need to know about the attitudes of both New Labour and the present Coalition with regard to welfare recipients. Despite the passage of time nothing would appear to have changed. The Compass link no longer works but I can assure you the text is genuine and unaltered. If you’re thinking of voting Labour next year that’s worth bearing in mind.
Labour, wake up, or you’re going to lose
November 8th, 2014
It’s not the messenger it’s the message. They are so lightweight they don’t stand a chance of gaining the support they so badly need.
Where is the fire to save the NHS, to bring the railways back into public ownership, the utilities, to fight the EU on competition rules and bring the Royal Mail back into public ownership? Where is the determination to borrow to build council houses, an investment that will pay for itself in employment and by creating an asset for future generations?
Where is the will to plan a realistic minimum wage and not £8ph by 2020?
They’re not losing support because Ed Miliband doesn’t look like a PM, they’re losing support because nobody who might once have voted for them has any conviction that they are willing to fight for Labour values any more. In fact I find myself wondering what they do stand for when all the things I would expect them to be campaigning for are watered down or missing.
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Clement Attlee came over worse than Ed Miliband on film but his party supported policies that have served us to this day in creating a just society, dismantled as they maybe as we speak. Described as “a modest little man with a lot to be modest about” by Churchill he nevertheless laid the foundations for a far more equal society than had existed before the war. It’s not about the leader it’s about the policies and the manifesto and as I write this today Labour are working to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.