For long periods during Tony Blairs reign most progressives in and outside the Labour Party queried whether there was any light at the end of the tunnel. Many saw the arrival of Gordon Brown as that light. After todays first of Browns Queens Speeches all I can suggest is that you let your eyes get used to the dark.
This Queens Speech fails to provide any clear direction at a time when people are increasingly losing confidence in Labours ability to deliver the policies and public services they require. It will do nothing to lift the morale of Labour supporters and painfully we seem to be allowing ourselves to be out manoeuvred by second rate Tories.
Todays legislative programme comes across as an uninspiring, rehashed mix of neo liberal economic policies at home and neo con policies abroad which in no way addresses the underlying demand for change in our country.
At the next election Labour will largely be judged on our record of delivering public services that meet the real needs of our community. Continuing to dress up privatisation as public sector reform wont deliver the quality of public services we need and will continue to demoralise the public servants whose dedication we rely upon to achieve success. Unless the Labour leadership gets a grip people will increasingly lose hope in us both as a Government that understands the real world issues they face and also lose confidence in even our managerial ability to deliver.
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and now George Bush is cosying up to teh Thatcherite style Sarkosy over Iran....! the briefing I've heard on this said that Iran actually wants to develop nuclear power as in energy not nuclear weapons (though in my opinion the former is totally ungreen, not a new renewable source but that's another issue).
Apart from the looming recession which will cast doubt on Gordon Brown's managerial competence it is clear that he dosen't have a new vision for Britain and just dosen't cut the mustard as leader or "is in the wrong job" as I heard a commentator put it today during the Queen's speech analysis today. Looks like we will have to lose an election John Major style before we fianlly dare to have a real Labour i.e socialist government. Just hope the Brown situation dosen't drag on as long as Major..
I heard something about the civil rights movement in America re-launching - what with the terrible case where white school students had hung nooses on "their" tree in a schoolyard where black students had dared to sit for once. There was a march about it attended by the Rev. Jesse Jackson but Obama was criticized for not attending. One year today until the US election by the way. What with the above racist incidents and the cold war style rumblings that have been going in in the world recently and so on I sometimes feel as if we are turning the clock back to the sixties or thereabouts........ what is going on?? Presume climate of fear created by right-wing governments is causing it all and msot people are crippled with debt, housing problems or ill health and don't notice the implications of theirt reactionary policies.
..think we need to start a respect for public sector workers campaign e.g. the firefighters of course... I mean a riising awareness campaign as of course we are already working in the issue on the left in so many ways bu ti mean to link the general public in more.
see www.rainbowpushcoalition.org for Rev. Jesse Jackson's press release headlined 'Rev Jackson Calls for Federal Action Against Hate Crimes Nationwide' on teh Jena noose case I've outlined above. There's also a picture of JJ on the London anti-war march with Ken Livingstone which those of you who were there will remember in the opening pictures of the website.
"US war insanity"
"Only sustained action, not piecemeal and polite entreaty, can help block America's voracious military-economic machine from devastating the region"
writes Azmi Bishara
http://tinyurl.com/2wj4u2
"Celtic Trust Reject 'war criminal' Reid"
"Members of the Celtic Trust slammed Dr John Reid as a "war criminal" at today's Celtic PLC AGM (19 November)."
"The trust represents supporters who are pushing for a people's representative on the board of directors rather than the continued dominance of what they refer to as a "narrow pool of candidates of business people and politicians from which the boards of all large football clubs are populated"
"They recommended that their members vote against Reid's appointment as the new Chairman of Celtic, and also voted against the club's major shareholder Dermott Desmond, over his opposition to a fan's representative on the board."
"Part of the reason given for the trust opposing Reid's appointment was "his position as Minister for Defence during the war in Iraq"...
http://tinyurl.com/3yzzjy
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