Bob Piper's mates seem at at sixes and sevens. Click HERE to give your views on whether a Midlands Labour councillor should stay in the Party or leave. Click HERE to read the views of a rat that's climbed aboard the sinking ship. Good timing, eh? But these words from Cllr Paul Macmanomy should send a chill down the spine of the remaining NuLab supporters...
I now recognise that we will never return the Party to its socialist and trade union roots if those of us who are socialists keep leaving and allowing Blair and his cohorts of Social Democrats a free hand. In any case - I know its deeply, deeply sad but I just don't feel right not being in and I have missed it!
The next thing we know, Militant and the Trots will be back in control. Perish the thought. Tony Blair is about to find out what Margaret Thatcher did. Nothing is forever.
Unlike Thatcher, Blair never believed it was forever.
ReplyDeleteRather than attempting to go "on and on and on" as Maggie did, after TB's third General Election victory as Leader, he announced he would step down during this Parliament to give his successor time to bed in before the next General Election.
To borrow a phrase from Sir John Major (isn't he marvellous for his age?); "Oh Dear"
ReplyDelete"Never re-enter a burning building."
ReplyDeleteStill, he's from Walsall and Black Country folk always were cantankerous. It comes from having a rubbish football team, you know. Broke my old dad's heart, they did, year after year.
Still, the more of that stripe that re-join, the greater the eventual bloodbath.
Goody.
17 signatures on a letter from the 2001 intake, an alleged letter from the 2005 intake and now a supportive letter from the loyalists that remain. I for one feel completely left out by this vogue for letter-writing and want to submit a short letter on behalf of bloggers everywhere - and what better medium that your diary Iain...
ReplyDeleteDear Mr Blair,
Are you aware that bloggers up and down the country have their java script at the ready to create a neat little feature in their sidebar counting down the months / weeks / days & hours to your departure? Your persistent refusal to set out a definitive date completely undermines these plans and shows a scant regard for the increasing democratic impact that us bloggers have.
For the sake of party, country and the blogosphere, go now man!
Regards,
Cassilis.
Careful what you wish for Iain; better for us Tories to will Blair to go on until even the public hate him rather than just his party members. Then we're a shoe in and Brown can spend some more quality time with his family.
ReplyDeleteHilarious rubbish from Umbongo in the David Cameron/India write-up. Since when has Verity said anything "irrefutable" at all on this blog? That would be the day! I suppose we have you around as a sort of perpetual itch we can't scratch Verity. Iain, is there any chance at all of giving us a Verity-break, say for a week? Just for the sheer relief of it!
ReplyDeleteDear Iain, wondered if you could read, Paul Macmanomy isn't and never was a Labour Councillor.
ReplyDeleteForget Blair. It's Brown who should be driven out.
ReplyDeleteIain
ReplyDeleteThanks for making me a Councillor -unfortunately the people of Walsall would need to endorse your actions at the Ballot box and as I haven't stood for election they can't vote for me.
Still thanks for the mention the hits on my site doubled yesterday.
Anonymous
Actually I was a Labour Councillor I served on the old West Midlands County Council from 1980 until Maggie kindly abolished me in 1984.
By the way the Trots weren't the only ones to practice entryism (and they were a miserable failure at it never taking any power and simply becoming a useful tool in the quest by the right to take over the party)- Tony Blair and the New Labourites are the most succesful example of the Labour Party being highjacked.
It does make a kind of sense to join parties when they're at their lowest ebb - it comes from a sense that you need to stand up and be counted...
ReplyDeleteI joined the Tory Party the day Thatcher resigned for that reason....