Thatcher dead

[BoyBlue_1985]

Labour will move back to the left a bit I think when they actually release some policies. I mean its been 3 years this summer and they havent listed 1. I would like to know where they stand

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Labour will move back to the left a bit I think when they actually release some policies. I mean its been 3 years this summer and they havent listed 1. I would like to know where they stand

Parties tend to release a manifesto in the run up to a general election, and sadly that is still some way off.
I doubt it will contain any of that subversive socialist stuff, although I'm sure the Daily Fail will be claiming it to be wildly to the left of Das Kapital.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Labour will move back to the left a bit I think when they actually release some policies. I mean its been 3 years this summer and they havent listed 1. I would like to know where they stand

Parties tend to release a manifesto in the run up to a general election, and sadly that is still some way off.
I doubt it will contain any of that subversive socialist stuff, although I'm sure the Daily Fail will be claiming it to be wildly to the left of Das Kapital.

Haha,

I know that is the case but a general idea wouldnt go a miss. At the moment although they will probably win the next election its hard to support or agree with them when I have no idea what they actually think

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

So will we on the left.
In fact it may well be the one and only time that Blair unites the entire country in celebration.

I always find it amusing that there exists a section of the public who loath Blair but love Thatcher. The more shrill the simultaneous love of Thatcher and hate of Blair, the bigger the idiot you are.

I agree. I also enjoy the logic behind celebrating the imagined death of Blair to get back at the people who have deeply offended you by being joyous at the very real death of Thatcher.

 

[malg]

So will we on the left.
In fact it may well be the one and only time that Blair unites the entire country in celebration.

I always find it amusing that there exists a section of the public who loath Blair but love Thatcher. The more shrill the simultaneous love of Thatcher and hate of Blair, the bigger the idiot you are.

I agree. I also enjoy the logic behind celebrating the imagined death of Blair to get back at the people who have deeply offended you by being joyous at the very real death of Thatcher.

That's a good point. The people who have revelled in Thatcher's death will hardly be of the political persuasion where they would mourn the passing of Bliar. Mind you, anyone who has a party or celebration at the death of someone else is strange anyway.

 

[Skashion]

Haha,

I know that is the case but a general idea wouldnt go a miss. At the moment although they will probably win the next election its hard to support or agree with them when I have no idea what they actually think

Are you in a safe seat?

 

[Cheesy]

So will we on the left.
In fact it may well be the one and only time that Blair unites the entire country in celebration.

As a matter of interest NF, who have 'we on the left' voted for in general elections since '97? I ask because Labour's share of the vote hasn't really fallen all that much in that time yet every traditional Labour supporter I know supposedly despises the whole 'New Labour' project.

Does this mean that most traditional Labour supporters now don't really go with their true convictions but rather with what they see as the lesser of two evils?

 

[Banned Tosspot]

The usual leftie suspects ganging up again.

Is their leader asleep?

 

[Rocket-footed kolarov]

So will we on the left.
In fact it may well be the one and only time that Blair unites the entire country in celebration.

As a matter of interest NF, who have 'we on the left' voted for in general elections since '97? I ask because Labour's share of the vote hasn't really fallen all that much in that time yet every traditional Labour supporter I know supposedly despises the whole 'New Labour' project.

Does this mean that most traditional Labour supporters now don't really go with their true convictions but rather with what they see as the lesser of two evils?

Is there an alternative? The only turnaround is opposition from within; if DM had won the leadership contest Labour would have gone back to the right, the hope is that Ed represents something different; and Labour (even if it must be a gradual process) moves away from the third way.

 

[mat]

So will we on the left.
In fact it may well be the one and only time that Blair unites the entire country in celebration.

As a matter of interest NF, who have 'we on the left' voted for in general elections since '97? I ask because Labour's share of the vote hasn't really fallen all that much in that time yet every traditional Labour supporter I know supposedly despises the whole 'New Labour' project.

Does this mean that most traditional Labour supporters now don't really go with their true convictions but rather with what they see as the lesser of two evils?

Is there an alternative? The only turnaround is opposition from within; if DM had won the leadership contest Labour would have gone back to the right, the hope is that Ed represents something different; and Labour (even if it must be a gradual process) moves away from the third way.

Milibland has some radical policies which are so radical he doesn't want to tell anybody. What a vote winner.....