Sunday, Feb 07, 2010
We have been shafted. Left, right and centre.
Greg Pytel: New Labour: could it have been worse?
When Tories lose power it goes down to scandals, becoming unpopular and making mistakes. But it is a situation that can be contained and quickly repaired. In 1997 New Labour were beneficiaries of pretty good state of the economy that Tories left. When Labour lose power it is absolutely "spectacular": 1979 and now. It would be ridculous to have one party, Tory, "democracy" but can we afford such party like Labour to rule the country?
Posted by ant @ 09:58 AM (719 views) Add Comment
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1. nomad said...
IMO it's essential to support democracy now more than ever, fortunately who to vote for in this GM has been made relatively simple.
A) Stick with the three main parties, no option now that Farage has dropped out of the leadership of UKIP leaving an invisible ragbag.
B) Judge Labour on their record - 'nuff said.
C) Every MP has either fanned the flames of fraudulent expenses claims and the banking fiasco, or sat on their hands.
So not a single vote for a Labour candidate and not a single vote for an incumbent member, after that choose the best individual.
Easy!
2. ant said...
@nomad: I think it is a very good formula. Especially that Labour movement (regardless whether we like socialists or not) was bankrupted by NuLabour. So people of socialist/social concious orientation should go for LibDems then.
I think, in principle, people should vote out all the existing MP's bar a small number of really decent and good ones.
3. icarus said...
He's right about the futility and obfuscation involved in blaming bankers' stupidity and greed (or their 'mispricing of risk') for the crisis. Like a lot of other political views expressed nowadays such an 'analysis' avoids making a proper social, political and economic analysis of what's going on. It's like blaming the evils of Bush and Cheney (and 9/11 conspirators) for financial crisis and military adventurism. The answer to a simplistic analysis like that is to elect Obama, who is of course driven by the same corporate, financial and military-industrial interests as Bush and Cheney. Most 'progressive' opinion these days is funded by organisation that are supported by the rich and is therefore just an extrusion of the corporate and financial worlds, which control the agenda to make it populist but controllable. Funding stops if they step out of line. Broad-based groups that are critical of, or dangerous to, the big interests end up with narrow, non-threatening agendas, and analyses like 'evil' Bush and 'stupid' bankers.
4. stillthinking said...
"Could it have been worse?"
Not really, no.