The Race for Number Two : Hain's Campaign
Yesterday's request for co-conspirators to email Guido with titbits and gossip about the wannabee Number Twos produced an effluence of information, largely for some reason about Team Hain. Fascinating stuff, most of which you won't find on Hain4Labour. On the campaign site his lengthy and detailed political biography neglects to mention that he was the president of the Young Liberals in 1977. Not a lot of policy positions either, beyond "I agree with Gordon" which he couples with the word "radical" repeatedly. However a co-conspirator has dug out the perma-tan's policy views. In his book "The Democratic Alternative" he lists what a Hain administration would do in the first 100 days. It is heady stuff:"By the Monday, after polling, the new government should be launching the next phase: the first 100 days during which it must stamp a new approach on the nation. Exchange controls will need to be quickly imposed with new powers over foreign capital movements. All financial institutions and companies should be required to halt new investment overseas. The pension funds and other financial institutions should be required to purchase government stocks to fund a massive expansion of a rejuvenated National Enterprise Board. Immediate import controls should be imposed, pending full negotiations in the context of planned trade and planning agreements. Privatisation of British Telecom should be reversed.... price controls should also figure during these first 100 days... It is essential to involve the unions directly over decisions in all economic activities etc etc
State-controlled authoritarian socialism, unlilateral disarmanent with CND invited to takeover the Ministry of Defence, leaving NATO, government organised anti - American demonstrations, price-controls, it is all there. Hain aims to turn Britain into a rainy version of Cuba. Is this what he means by "radical"? Does Gordon know about this?What will Ronnie Cohen do when they nationalise his private equity investments?
...to be continued.
40 comments:
All those policies look thoroughly sensible to me and they should be introduced forthwith - unless of course City bankers give 2/3 of their salaries to "charity".
Hain always was a bit potty.
One of the first signs of an crippled Government is that people like Hain are made Ministers of State.
As Blair started off with Frank Dobson in charge of the NHS you could reasonably argue Blair has been crippled since Day 1
"Rotten" Ronnie Cohen will be fine....Being non- domiciled, all his cash is safely stashed out of Gordon's grasp. Probably why they get along so well.
"Heady stuff" perhaps, Guido, but am I the only one who suspects that Gordon has more than a sneaking wish for these to be his own policies too, come the hour for painting Number Ten Red?
BT are pretty safe from re-nationalisation, unless of course the IMF is giving out 6 times mortgages to states, too.
rainy cuba...as opposed to whta you want guido - a slightly damper papal rome
This piece of of Perma-Slime effluent really does have the welfare of the workers at heart. Like Brown he wants to 'rule' them and us. He wants to sit on top of the pile dishing out benefits. The unctous twat could never hack it in the commercial world. The politics of handouts suits him and so many others at the top of NuLab.
Ho ho ho Guido, it's the 25th not the 1st of April.
Try to stay awake and get something new on the orange-one.
Who is the most repellent NuLab minister ever, Byers or Hain? Answers on a postcard, please ...
Guido, there must be some mistake - you say : "president of the Young Liberals in 1977".
From these policy ideas Hain was clearly NEVER "liberal", and I'm damn sure he could never have been "young" either !
Alan Douglas
"The pension funds and other financial institutions should be required to purchase government stocks"
ALREADY ACHIEVED!
That picture of Hain. He's wearing William Shatners syrup!
'A rainy version of Cuba' ... bloody-hell, I could start to like this bloke, and he ain't even got a beard and cigar. Is that before or after the ice-cap goes? But no, I don't think he'll pass muster as Che Mk II. If 'City Wankers gave 2/3 of their salary to charity' they'd still be vastly overpaid. He sounds like another Bolshoi socialite to me, even if he did try to fake radicalism back in his early post student days. Didn't Maggie also claim to be a 'radical'? So all who claim to be 'radical' are equally mad, whether of right or left? Not surprised he was Prez of the Young Libs though, he was probably the only Young Liberal back in 1977.
Ah, the good old Alternative Economic Strategy i.e. economic fascism.
Hain might have changed his views since then but I sauspect the controlling instincts remain.
For rainy Cuba agenda read New Labour project.We've been on this road since '97.
The "Fat and Gay" club gave a warm welcome to the poster known as "The Hitch",the club motto was shouted out with pride,"We're fat, we smell and we're gay,so get used to the stench we're here to stay" Those present then retired to the dining area where the poster known as "The Hitch " proceeded to eat the buffet.
Hain (like alot of lefties) will always have want to control our normal lives, because they know what's best for us. If it's not re-nationalisation it's going to be how we think, spend our money, or look or feel or the pace at which we breathe.
Am I the only living soul who remembers Hain's brush's with the law. i.e. the Lords cricket pitch saga and the run away from WH smith & co. wiv the typewriter ribbon. All completely real, like his Tan??
Or was this a different geezer?? Enlighten Colin, Please.
Shows what a bunch of old Commie bastards many Labour members were/are. That type of fascist ideology never leaves them. It doesn't matter how many times they are proved wrong, they can never let go and still think that this type of dogmatic, totalitarian crap is right. That is why Labour governments will always pursue the same, guaranteed to fail, policies, whatever re-branding bollocks they try. Once a Pinko idiot always a Pinko idiot.
And I love the way he calls it the "Democratic Alternative" !!
In the same way that the German Democratic Republic was democratic!! The socialist form of democracy of course, i.e. fascist to any decent person.
Colin D 3:18 PM, April 25, 2007
Not to mention the Barclay's Bank robbery.
Well, he needs some way to finace his junkets, trips and whatnot.
Hain is not a lefty. He doesn't care about re-distribution. He's simply a professional cunt.
Hain is a four letter fellow.
This all sounds very familiar...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html
Ratty. said...
Colin D 3:18 PM, April 25, 2007
Not to mention the Barclay's Bank robbery.
Please enlighten me on this! I cannot recall the incident/s. tar ever. Colin
Geezer: How can one be Pinko (i.e. left-wing), fascist (i.e. right-wing, corporatist), socialist and communist all at the same time???
It's a lot, even for the man who singlehandedly brought peace to Ireland, equality to South Africa and brill cream to the masses.
Colin D 4:04.
Please enlighten me on this! I cannot recall the incident/s
Of course he was stitched up - aren't they all, but this one was acquitted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2523000/2523609.stm
Arini you are a twat! So you think Fascists are only right-wing? That is a Pinko/commie/lefty/socialist defintion of a fascist.
Has anyone ever tried to calculate what % of these nulab slime balls have ever had a proper, ie, non state funded , non union, non party job ?
A fascist is an ultra-nationalist who believes in a military society with a centrally planned corporatist economy. Whether this is right or left wing is debatable, but it is a bit annoying when people decide the definition is whatever suits their agenda.
Guido said "Not a lot of policy positions either.."
Hardly surprising is it?
The Deputy Leader has fuck all power to do fuck all - apart for stand in at PMQ's when Gordon is away and play croquet at Dorneywood.
That's why this deputy leadership contest is duller than watching your toenails grow. The only difference it will make to anything is the salary of the contender and their ego.
That's it.
It'd make more difference to my life if there was an election to pick a goldfish to put in No.10's aquarium.
"Hain is not a lefty. He doesn't care about re-distribution. He's simply a professional cunt."
Most sensible comment so far. My own included.
Colin D 4:04
Sorry, Link href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/9/newsid_2523000/2523609.stm">HERE
Those under 45 just need to look at Wikipedia for a resume of Hain's career.
He was 33 when he wrote this stuff so I don't think it should be regarded as on a par with Peter Mandelson's communist dalliance.
Thanks very much ratty. I had really forgotten that one. I recall the putney saga well, as a bint insisted on me visiting her. Wiv de old bill in profusion it cramped my activities for a while. I had to emigrate to Epsom. Ta ever, colin
Out of curiosty I have just invested in a second hand copy of this book to see if it will increase my dislike of Hain which is already at extraordinary levels. If it mvoes me to violence I will consider the experiment a success.
So his ecomonic policies mirror those of the BNP, only they are a little further thought out.
What's his stance on all these immigrants keeping wages low then?
I binned the book years ago. Remind me...what were his views on the European Union in those days?
only they are a little further thought out.
only they are a little farther out.
I've had him
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