Sunday, June 15, 2008

STEPHEN LADYMAN ATTACKS LABOUR MOVEMENT



As the Labour party have moved further from their grassroots than ever, news that the GMB union is no longer to support Stephen Ladyman MP, should come as little surprise, to anyone who has observed Labours gentle metamorphosis from the Labour party recently new Labour and presumably now soft Tories.


No doubt Stephen Ladyman must be under pressure as a vice chairman of the Labour party, whose support is in freefall, as well as being exceedingly unlikely to be reelected for Labour in Thanet South. Stephen ladyman suggests that the GMB union is trying to buy MP's and drag it the Labour party to the left.



Now just for Stephen Ladyman, as someone whose mildly interested in politics, I suggest that it's not only traditional Labour grassroots supporters, who feel betrayed by Labour but those of us with a social conscience or who happen to be British or English have similar feelings. This might be of interest to local Labour councilors, such as David Green who accuses David Davies of political stunts and Clive Hart whom I bumped into at the big event in Margate, who strangely thinks he'll be able to buck the trend, and get himself reelected to Kent Council next year.


Anyway since a clear vision of political realities seems to elude both Stephen Ladyman and others in the Labour party, here are a few things that I and others are no longer comfortable with.


• arrest without trial
• university tuition fees (except in Scotland)
• prescription charges (except in Scotland)
• surrendering constitutional powers to Europe
• subjugation of the English by Scottish Labour MP's
• Scottish people given greater democratic power
• British workers taking pay cuts due to Labour exploiting foreign workforce
• uncontrolled migration resulting in poorer education and health facilities
• free speech curbed in the local government due to standards board of England
• Unrestricted gambling despite social cost
• green taxes curbing travel for working people whilst MP's can just charge expenses
• giving away billions to Europe when Blair handed back our rebate
• going to war based on bogus information


I could go on, but is just so depressing, even on something as simple as the working time directive, Labour have backtracked and stabbed their traditional supporters in the back. I'll be surprised, if any of our local, Labour politicians have the front, to comment, to me Labour party are every bit as sleazy as the Tories were at the end of their last reign, and one just wonders what deal Tony Blair did with the Murdoch Press, just prior to his election as surprisingly these papers are still supporting Labour.


It's easy for Labour just dismiss David Davies principled stand for democracy and freedom as a stunt, but since labour have thrown away principles and decency who gives a toss what they may have to say.


5 comments:

  1. The unions should have withdrawn their money years ago. The Labour Party has betrayed the people who created it.

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  2. If I recall in the old days the tory war horses and cold war warriors felt that the Unions were being "dragged to the left" by the Soviet and the Soviet funded avowedly Maxist IRA whose terrorist plan included infiltration of the trades unions.

    By labelling the unions as the enemy within the tories in effect yielded the ground to those who might wish to infiltrate ? Not clever. Ladyman like in fact.

    wee strategic genius IRA Sean supported by unions around the world architect of the IRA union infiltration and sabotage plan

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  3. Just in case people have not heard of Maggie Thatcher's British American project here is a quote from a Guardian Report.


    UK members of the British-American Project include:

    Peter Mandelson EU trade commissioner
    Jonathan Powell Tony Blair's chief of staff
    Jeremy Paxman broadcast journalist and author
    Mo Mowlam former Labour Northern Ireland secretary
    Adair Turner head of pensions commission
    Trevor Phillips chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality
    James Naughtie broadcast journalist and author
    Matthew Taylor Downing Street head of policy
    Chris Smith former Labour culture secretary
    Baroness Symons Foreign Office minister
    Lord Robertson former Nato secretary-general
    Douglas Alexander Foreign Office and trade minister
    Geoff Mulgan former head of Downing Street's policy and strategy unit
    Baroness Scotland Home Office minister
    Julia Hobsbawm public relations consultant
    Steve Hilton Conservative special adviser
    Benjamin Zephaniah poet and activist
    Colonel Bob Stewart former commander of British forces in Bosnia
    David Willetts Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary
    Alan Sked founder of Ukip
    Stephen Dorrell former Conservative health secretary
    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown columnist and broadcaster
    Charles Moore former editor of the Daily Telegraph
    Nick Butler BP group vice-president, strategy and policy development
    Lord Lipsey Labour peer and author


    About this articleClose This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday November 06 2004 on p36 of the Weekend comment & features section. It was last updated at 01:57 on November 06 2004.

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  4. Tony

    There has been, in my view, no really analytical press comment re David Davis.

    I exchanged letters with him some years ago incidentally.

    Is he doing the right thing ? YES

    Has he prepared his ground ? NO

    Is he making a strageic error against the UK security interest ? IT LOOKS LIKE IT.


    Davis is former 21 SAS TA. He is not a numptie on these matters.

    He must know that there is one big lie. It is this

    That MI5 and Police could combat serious escalated technique terrorism.

    Yet I bet he conducts his principled denate based exactly on the model of reality about terror that New Labour has spun to us.

    If he condones the fools then one day (maybe as a tory PM even) he will purchase the folly.

    I am sure that he knows that.

    He has elected to raise the debate. Good. So honour it with the truth.

    The truth is that against a real terrorist campaign (don't believe that this was represented by IRA) MI5 and Police are as much use as a one legged man in an arse kick competition.

    If Davis came to you and said we do not need anything but SAS. Would you believe that the Army without engineers, artillery, paras, tanks and infantry could fight a foe.

    But people buy the new labour line that Police and MI5 can beat terrorism without a proper support structure. It is the big lie.

    And the egocentric police and MI5 believe it too. Just so long as they can have more power ....

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  5. I've had enough of the lot of them. So where does that leave us to vote?

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