tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post6353658607913313500..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The Importance of Alice MahonIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40605915662207446372009-04-22T19:56:00.000+01:002009-04-22T19:56:00.000+01:00'Tone made me do it - he's a bad influence' said.....'Tone made me do it - he's a bad influence' said...<br /><br />"This week's Economist magazine suggests that 250,000 people from the rapidly failing state that is called Pakistan come to the UK every year. Voting BNP seems to be the only way of waking the political-media complex up to this very real threat to the UK."<br /><br />What it actually says is 250,000 Pakistanis come to Britain to visit, work or marry with 350,000 British citizens making the opposite journey.<br />To conclude;<br />WE R LOSE 100K PEOPLES EACH YEAR TO PEOPLES WITH DARK SKIN HALP BNP HALP. PAKISTAN WILL TAKE THEM ALLLLLLLLL <br />Epic FAIL.<br /><br />Sincerely, Eric Anthony Blair.Eric Anthony Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69419393748585853632009-04-20T21:21:00.000+01:002009-04-20T21:21:00.000+01:00Alice and I were Labour rebel MPs from 1987 to 200...Alice and I were Labour rebel MPs from 1987 to 2005. But she is wrong this time -<br /><br />http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com/2009/04/alice-where-art-thou.htmlHarry Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01833380054575757928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-340219077930827032009-04-18T19:38:00.000+01:002009-04-18T19:38:00.000+01:00Maybe this is important but in different ways than...Maybe this is important but in different ways than you think. Temple-Morris, Thurnham, Nicholson etc left the Tory Party because they thought it to be too right-wing. Mahon has left Labour because, er, she thinks it to be too right-wing.<br /><br />Maybe people's politics have yet further to move in the left direction, despite the talk of "ZaNuLab" and "Marxist Government" on blogs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32454922849800367342009-04-18T17:53:00.000+01:002009-04-18T17:53:00.000+01:00The publication of the full set of MPs' receipts f...The publication of the full set of MPs' receipts for the past four years,due in July 2009, will no doubt contain more revelations of the sorts of inappropriate – to put it at its kindest – objects and services that have been charged to taxpayers.<br /><br />MP's are derading this, none more so than Labour MP's and ministers-<br />some reported to be "suicidal" with fear<br /><br />can't wait!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13059466154817963812009-04-18T17:42:00.000+01:002009-04-18T17:42:00.000+01:00Goodness me. Rob post now does say Labour List. So...Goodness me. Rob post now does say Labour List. So ignore half my comment. The half about weekends and about Labour Youth however is relevant.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47152879723438996342009-04-18T17:40:00.000+01:002009-04-18T17:40:00.000+01:00Rob 3:54 pm. Fool! There are at least three Alice ...Rob 3:54 pm. Fool! There are at least three Alice Mahon posts at Labour Home. And at least two Erith and Thamesmead since last night as well as several in the build up to what was is and will be a difficult one.<br /><br />Perhaps you meant Labour list? Doesn't usually post 24/7 and is traditionally more or less switched off at weekends. But currently being edited by the Labour Youth.<br /><br />Not likely to give a hoot about Alice I'm afraid. And with nothing to add about E and T gate.<br /><br />There are dozens of stories that never get covered at all or scarcely by Iain, but you could not be more utterly wrong about Labour Home than if you had claimed it was calling for a BNP vote.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37293818959315212352009-04-18T17:03:00.000+01:002009-04-18T17:03:00.000+01:00One of the very few MPs of all parties who did not...One of the very few MPs of all parties who did not knowingly & deliberately vote to bomb Yugoslavia for the deliberate purpose of assisting in the racial genocide every one of them knew their party was assisting in.<br /><br />Of course we now know that they ultimately assisted in the ethnic cleaning of 350,000, ,assacres, genocide, the hisnap & sale of children to western brothels & the kidnap, dissection while still alive, & sale of thousands of Serbs Gypsies & anti-Nazi Albanians as parts to our hospitals.<br /><br />In all the media discussion we are going to see I think we can be certain that those unnewsorthy facts will go unmentioned, even largely online.<br /><br />So yes Iain she is important - more important than party activists of all parties guilty of genocide, will mention.<br /><br />I can see why the 2nd poster, while attacking Milosevic, chooses to retain anonymity. There is barely an MP who, when compared to Milosevic, doesn't look like a corrupt racist murdering Nazi war criminal.neil craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09157898238945726349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-61449241283472430062009-04-18T16:52:00.000+01:002009-04-18T16:52:00.000+01:00Gallimaufry
She's about as slow as claire short wa...Gallimaufry<br />She's about as slow as claire short was .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11667255117937494092009-04-18T16:25:00.000+01:002009-04-18T16:25:00.000+01:00"Alice Mahon, a Halifax MP for 18 years and a part..."Alice Mahon, a Halifax MP for 18 years and a party member for more than 50 years, has resigned her membership of the party saying she can no longer stomach how it operates." - bit of a slow learner, isn't she?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358349301959327747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-82378428298477699812009-04-18T16:12:00.000+01:002009-04-18T16:12:00.000+01:00Alice Mahon has made it entirely clear that she ha...Alice Mahon has made it entirely clear that she has left Labour because of policy, including the vicious Welfare Bill, the work of James Purnell, who persecutes the poor, sick and disabled while charging the taxpayer four hundred pounds per month for food, since apparently neither his ministerial nor his parliamentary salary is paid in order to feed him.<br /><br />Truly, we have stepped through the looking glass.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17128910694510549582009-04-18T16:06:00.000+01:002009-04-18T16:06:00.000+01:00The Euro-election results, at least in terms of nu...The Euro-election results, at least in terms of numbers of seats, are probably going to be distorted by the predicted collapse of UKIP. Polling suggests that they may lose up to 8 seats, some of which may go to Labour. That and the PR system that we have may mean that they do not fare as badly as some expect. However, the County Council elections on the same day are another matter as they are straight FPTP. If Labour does very badly there then things will get very tough for their leadership.Steve Horganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13689714700049747836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22812138230321724132009-04-18T15:54:00.000+01:002009-04-18T15:54:00.000+01:00Went a tory story breaks, I goto ConHome to get th...Went a tory story breaks, I goto ConHome to get their perspective.<br /><br />Went to LabourList to see if there was anything on Alice Mahon or the tampered ballot box at the Erith Labour hustings. Nothing. Nada. <br /><br />Great illustration of why that site is a waste of space.Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-72027100209592670522009-04-18T15:44:00.000+01:002009-04-18T15:44:00.000+01:00Lets hope there is more defections and they get ha...Lets hope there is more defections and they get hammered in the euro elections signalling yet another sign of there gradual but certain decline into next years role as the loyal opposition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-66717934433079291432009-04-18T15:19:00.000+01:002009-04-18T15:19:00.000+01:00>>good riddance...<<
The Tories seeme...>>good riddance...<<<br /><br />The Tories seemed equally grateful to lose all those 'unsound' people in the late 90s.<br /><br />How did that work out ?Nigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171835878570773595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38089827932922216102009-04-18T15:16:00.000+01:002009-04-18T15:16:00.000+01:00>>A non-story if ever there was one.<<...>>A non-story if ever there was one.<<<br /><br />Yes, there seem to have been a lot of those on the front pages recently.<br /><br />Thank you for your useful advice that we should just ignore them.<br /><br />Maybe you can let us have some tractor production statistics instead ?Nigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171835878570773595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-83701408557334983452009-04-18T14:22:00.000+01:002009-04-18T14:22:00.000+01:00Dont think the Labour party will be sorry to see t...Dont think the Labour party will be sorry to see the back of Red Alice....she is barking.....good riddance...lets hope she stays away from politics now..Mirtha Tidvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940977481295375071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80202417379438676182009-04-18T14:14:00.000+01:002009-04-18T14:14:00.000+01:00A non-story if ever there was one.A non-story if ever there was one.JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07897232267231427979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-83670601755715709842009-04-18T14:05:00.000+01:002009-04-18T14:05:00.000+01:00"And next he has the Euro and local elections to c..."And next he has the Euro and local elections to contend with."<br /><br />I expect labour to get a drubbing at the euro elections but it's also quite possible that the conservatives will not do so well as UKIP might pick up a lot of protest votes, mine included.Mark Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-7847185297708737832009-04-18T14:03:00.000+01:002009-04-18T14:03:00.000+01:00A long time ago, I met Alice a couple of times. S...A long time ago, I met Alice a couple of times. She is one of the old school, representing the sort of people the New Labour London Mediocracy has deserted. "They are changing the guard at Buckingham Palace, Gordon Brown went down with Alice...."Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71623075300332191792009-04-18T13:59:00.000+01:002009-04-18T13:59:00.000+01:00Cato:
Well said.
Come on Tom - let's hear your t...Cato:<br /><br />Well said.<br /><br />Come on Tom - let's hear your thoughts on her comments about Smeagate.Silent Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586061220673855660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87074509004011904592009-04-18T13:37:00.000+01:002009-04-18T13:37:00.000+01:00>>And of course her resignation is far less ...>>And of course her resignation is far less significant than the resignations of Peter Temple-Morris and Alan Howarth, both of whom not only resigned from the Conservatives but actually defected to Labour while they were sitting MPs...<<<br /><br />One might equally argue that it's more significant. As a retired MP, she has no interest to protect, and no motive for resignation other than disgust.<br /><br />As for the anonymous ad hominem (feminam ?) attacks, they are predictable and pitiful.<br />(Not that I have any great regard for Alice Mahon.)Nigelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171835878570773595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1198296682885922562009-04-18T12:20:00.000+01:002009-04-18T12:20:00.000+01:00Labour are doomed - DOOMED at the next election!
...Labour are doomed - DOOMED at the next election!<br /><br />Not even the Socialists want to be associated with the vile and Morally Corrupt practices of Number 10 under Gordon Brown!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9928393469669289202009-04-18T12:19:00.000+01:002009-04-18T12:19:00.000+01:00Its a classic
Forming
Storming
Norming
Morning
...Its a classic <br /><br />Forming<br />Storming<br />Norming<br />Morning <br /><br />Cycle. we have entered the stage where the Party is examining itself, what its done, and what it cost. as more war weary labor activists wake up and realise the system they are supporting. they will realise that the ideals they beleive in are not represtented by the edifice they have built.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08882762689887531589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69857036276910519762009-04-18T12:10:00.000+01:002009-04-18T12:10:00.000+01:00Tom Harris conveniently omits the comment she made...Tom Harris conveniently omits the comment she made re the 'smeargate' scandal.Catosayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02885445175868379750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-40098889945730124562009-04-18T12:02:00.000+01:002009-04-18T12:02:00.000+01:00The problem is the same with all those inside the ...The problem is the same with all those inside the Labour party who have spoken out this last week:<br /><br />Where have you been for the last 12 years?<br /><br />All of us out here in the real world knew what was going on, not in detail perhaps, but we knew. As soon as Ecclestone got his F1 deal, we knew that government at the highest level was for sale, and that it was not just a few greedy MPs trying to trouser a few quid, but the PM and other ministers who were involved.<br /><br />Now that the ship is fatally holed beneath the waterline, the voices of dissent appear. They have nothing to lose now, many of them would be better off standing as independents at the next General Election, (unless they already know that the Glenrothes method is to be used again to boost the Labour vote).<br /><br />No, too late comes the outrage, they gain no credit by futile attempts to distance themselves from the stench of the rotting corpse that is New Labour.<br /><br />'We were elected as New Labour, we will govern as new Labour' Tony Blair 1997. The only time he can be proven to have told the truth.Tony_Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729030784452630545noreply@blogger.com