So Retro: Back to the Future
Blair writing in the Guardian today says he wants an open debate about public service reform. Can it really be that after a decade they still have not got a clue? In the ranks it is increasingly like New Labour never happened, midday today there will be a mass lobby of parliament to "campaign against the creeping privatisation of our public services. Join thousands of trade unionists and members of campaigning organisations to unite against the threat of privatisation!" Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out! Out! Out!*Meanwhile over at the disappointingly Orwellian Labourhome the big issue of today for the "grassroots" is "Why the US government's shock tactics will not increase breastfeeding rates". What about the workers?
*Not the official chant.
27 comments:
What do we want?
Monopoly Services!
When do we want it?
Now!"
Isn't this part of Blair's Victory Lap around the track? Raise the issues that brought him fame and glory in the 1990's and sail off into the sunset (or get himself installed as the Director General at the U.N.)?
He's calling for debate and discussion of the direction of Brown's Future Government, trying to project his influence far into the next decade.
Perhaps Blair should point toward the slogan "equality under the Law" and moot legislation that upholds the principle rather than undermines it.
And I'd love to see real and complete Constitutional reform on the agenda. As only Nixon could go to China, I think only Cameron will be able to fix this hugely dysfunctional system.
American shock tactics won't work because tasers cause the milk ducts to seize up. I thought everyone knew that.
What do we want?
Index Linked Final Salary Pensions!
When do we want them?
At 55!
Not very catchy I know, but oh so accurate!
He who controls the past controls the future
He who controls this blog should delete your comment.
Ah! Margaret!
She showed great promise.
I had further plans for her, but you took her from me.
Look forward to her return.
I will be most pleased.
Her role remains unfulfilled in the world of oppression.
Doom.
"Would you support the NHS providing lactation specialists to show each new mum how to breastfeed on post-natal wards and at home?"
Guido - why don't you have polls like that!?!
Unions are obsolete and should be done away with. Workers are covered by so many 'laws' they don't need some pseudo-political rabble rousers 'helping' them!
Theo Spark - I would broaden the right to bring suit against employers at the same time you abolish unions.
While I abhor the tactics of most labour unions, they serve as a political organisation looking after their 'members'.
If you want individuals to take responsibility for their own situation, then they must be able to take advantage of the full range of political and legal recourses to address their grievances.
Gregor - He who controls this blog should delete your comment.
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Agreed. I do try my hardest. Perhaps if I dressed like a tit on safari I'd be more successful?
They mean "extortion, not individual choice".
Prof. Quartermass, I agree workers should have the right to nail bad bosses. Let's just keep the discredited socialist policies out of the workplace.
The Unions won't be happy until full-blown socialism returns. They have no friends and should be completely ignored.
Middle England runs the country now. Get used to it.
Like everything in life their is balance, as a member of amicus (non-political member) and a long -term tory i think i have perfected the trick!!! (some arsehole will deride me but then again i have independent thought - what will that make them)Anyway in this case the unions have it wrong they should be more concerned about getting decent pay, holidays, working environment for the people who work hard rather than the cancer that destabilises & debilitates the public services the idle! Having experiencesmore than my fair share of public services a degree of rationisation is required.
I'm glad that you agree with my wishes to supress collective thought. It is to the detriment of mankind to organise weaklings against power.
Power is all and power is everything.Remove such thoughts from your puny minds and submit to a superior force.
Political parties are of such a creed and have no reasoning in the struggle of affection.
Socialism was only one way of expression within the collective sphere and Margaret removed such a threat as well as Conservative ideology.
Hail to ultimate power of the individual. Hail to the power of the few.Hail to the power of the rich.
I commend the suppression of the weakest.
Doom.
Gregor is a young man on holiday, don’t tease him. He knows a lot about politics – he has been to a university!
Dizzy
I think you meant to say
"A tit on safari who looks like he wants to appear to be thinking very hard "
Twat in a hat
Dr Doom,
Capitalism = Economic Freedom.
Socialism = Slave of the State.
Perhaps you want to interview Marx, not Margaret?
On a serious note, members of unions should have no more rights than any other individual. There should be no right to strike, unless that right is agreed in the contract.
The ONLY way to increase standards for workers is to make sure there are more jobs and employers competing for employees. The best way to do that is to remove the politics of jealousy (socialism).
http://www.mises.org/books/socialism/contents.aspx
A rather good demolition of socialism.
Doom, buddy, I like you. For a Tory, you're not too bad. Far better than Dave "Lexus, what Lexus?" Cameron, Man of the Bloody People.
Margaret. It brings a tear to my eye of such passion for state control.Why did you let her go, why?
What did she do wrong? All she ever wanted was to crush people using any and all means at her disposal.
The beauty of such power is wasted upon those who only wish to rebalance right from wrong.
I remain in deep admiration of her 'scorched earth policy' that wreaked havoc throughout this fair land. I have not seen such terror since the English revolution, of which I took great pleasure in viewing a self made wasteland.
Hail to Thatcher, leader of force and afraid of no man's power.
Doom.
Yes, how horrific that she took away legal privileges of unpopular bodies (the TUs) and gave a bunch of Stalinist-led blackmailing miners a good kicking.
Middle England Rules OK.
Dr Doom,
Get a better coat, you are still pining for the good ole day of the winter of discontent.
Discontent for who? I was not discontented, for I was very much in content.
The smell of fear among the populace to my nostrils was the smell of perfume. The dead could not rest and the living un-dead called for power and force to be inflicted upon weak underlings yearning for more power.
Only the power of the state is supreme and in my state I have supreme power over all.
Hail Thatcher,leader of the un-dead,leader of people.
Doom.
Are you running for the Republican leadership, by any chance? Can I bribe you to?
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