labour party

"Sometimes people get the government they deserve" from bushytailedfox 342 days old

[ ... ] have a very top-down Labour Party that thinks the only input even it's own activists should have in democracy is to place a cross on a ballot ...

Standstill Airport from bushytailedfox 342 days old

[ ... ] Blair. Originally the Labour Party in Parliament was there to represent the wider party and where possible, implement the Party's manifesto; that ...

The (Capitalist) Labour Party from bushytailedfox 346 days old

Right on cue, just after I wrote that Labour Party policy is about efficient management of capitalism, Peter Mandleson wrote this in today's Guardian: Nobody ...

December 1974, the month democracy (in Britain) died from bushytailedfox 353 days old

It's not often that you can really put a specific date on historic change. Thanks to Nixon's obsession with recoding himself we know exactly how the ...

Activism from bushytailedfox 360 days old

Yesterday's 'prisoner' was Nelson Mandela, just in case you wondered. I picked that 'thought for the day' because I'm reading a book on the Labour Party's ...

Progress of a sort from bushytailedfox 400 days old

I gather from a combination of BBC news and the Guardian today that perhaps the government is in fact to take a seat on the boards of banks that we bail ...

Oh Mandy from bushytailedfox 408 days old

Sorry, but it had to be quoted Well you came and you gave without takingbut I sent you away, oh Mandywell you kissed me and stopped me from shakingI ...

National prosperity from bushytailedfox 418 days old

With all the talk of doom, and financial melt-down, and with idiots like Gordon Brown claiming the Labour Party is and always will be, the party of business, ...

Better a novice than the fool who brought us here from bushytailedfox 418 days old

So Gordon Brown thinks it's no time for a novice to lead the country? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7630567.stm Maybe so, but I'd rather ...

Gordon, I can hear you but I can't see you from bushytailedfox 418 days old

[ ... ] being cheap, or the Labour party being stupid, it needs fixing quickly before the net general election is called. I could at least listen to the ...