Rules Of Game In 'Not Changed At All Actually' Shock
The frantic row back from Blairism (into what waters we're not quite sure yet, a kind of Christian Stalinism, possibly, an uneasy mix of Bible bashing and Father Of His Nation paternalism) continues apace at Chairman Brown's first Party Rally. Latest in the 'what *were* we thinking' confessional is old lag and serial Home Office muppet Tony McNulty, who would like to apologise for the last couple of years of kneejerk Sun-pleasing counter-productive counter terrorism and ask for several offences of talking to the Muslim Council of Britain to be taken into consideration. Good start, Tony, but we want action, not apology. However, it's a start, and even an apparently minor change of emphasis is of great significance when it involves Government ministers talking openly about human rights instead of hiding from the wrath of the Sun. I note that Shami Chakrabarti is evidently of similar mind, and she has an excellently tuned bullshit detector.
Mr McNulty told a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth: "I think we have made mistakes since 7/7."
He said one of these mistakes was Mr Blair's argument that people must be ready to accept reductions in their civil liberties in the fight against terror because "the rules of the game have changed".
It is pleasing for petty small minded Blair-haters like ourselves to note how Big Tone has been completely airbrushed from history. There are some jobs you really need a Stalinist for, they do have a certain style when it comes to erasing backsliders.
I have just received an
I have just received an e-mail from Winston Smith at the Ministry of Truth. He apologised for not having e-mailed me lately, but he says since Gord has taken over as BB, it has been chaos. He went on to say, he has possibly the safest job in the country with no chance of redundancy due to lack of work. There are apparently millions of documents and photo's, still and cine, that need reworking, to suit the style of the new BB. This he says, is mainly to remove reference to people who are now considered as being non-persons. As yet he has not come across much policy change to note. The tried and tested formla of saying the economy is in good shape, has worked until now, and will work in the future.
He did let on to me that chocolate production had gone up by almost 10%, but all the extra would be sent to the troops fighting the great heroic war. Hence, there would be none left for extra rations to the peasantry.
"Unfortunately for Woodley,
"Unfortunately for Woodley, just days before he took the podium at the Labour Party conference to deliver his snow-job for Brown, it was revealed that the government had signed a multimillion-pound deal with an Australian-based job agency firm as part of its efforts to drive disabled people off benefits."
"WorkDirections UK, run by Therese Rein, the wife of Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd, has won six four-year contracts under the government’s “welfare to work” programme, which has outsourced job search services to private companies. Earlier this year Rein was forced to sell off her Australian recruitment business amid complaints that it would represent a conflict of interests should her husband be part of a Labor government following the general election, and that it had been underpaying some staff."
http://tinyurl.com/28bob9
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/hamb-s15.shtml
There is a debate going on about how to deal with the drain the disabled and the elderly/unemployed are having on the profits of New Labours rich friends. Not only in the UK but indeed all over europe and the world.I wonder what they will come up with?.
"Four years ago the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) youth organisation, Phillip Missfelder, had already declared, “I am strictly opposed to 85-year-olds receiving artificial hip joints at the expense of society as a whole.” Missfelder, who still leads the youth organisation and has been a parliamentary deputy since 2005, had made his calculations according to the current forms of free-market accounting."
http://tinyurl.com/2rp6r7
From little acorns do mighty oaks grow,hmmm to hang people off?.
I think/fear we will hear more on this subject off New Labour in the coming months.
This ongoing attempt by the
This ongoing attempt by the Browniki to distance themselves from the Blairistas is futile - I don't give a rancid donkey turd what any of Brown's minions have to say about Blair etc, cos they are all implicated as far as I`m concerned. Obviously McNulty didn't think it was that big a deal, the Blair crackdown on, er, civil liberties etc - or at least not bad enough to warrant doing a Cook and resigning on principle. Same with the rest of that shopworn, cordially- vicious crew. They lay down with pigs and they all got up smelling of something a milion miles away from roses.
One might say that today's Labour party is like a brothel madam, straightening up her wig and trowelling on the slap in time for another swing through the repellent seduction of a general election.