Three days holed up in a Birmingham hotel - a comforting place to be when surrounded by fellow trade unionists and people generally of a left persuasion. Votes for more trade union rights, solidarity with strikers, against Trident, and supportive of the anti-war movement. Great speeches too from NUJ member Tony Benn, American comrade Linda Foley and John McDonnell, who is Chair of the union's Parliamentary Group. Now back to the real world.
Hideously, Gordon Brown is already cosying up to George Bush . It seems we are expected to believe that GB and GB (the GeeBee GeeBees) met unexpectedly when the Prezz dropped into talks the Chancellor was having with national security adviser Stephen Hadley.Bush , we are told, just popped his head round the door.
Yeah, right. What amazes me most ( apart from the fact that they expect us to believe this PR guff) is that Brown thinks this will somehow ENHANCE his standing with the British electorate and the Labour Party.
Alan Simpson MP in typical witty style described the said event as "speed dating" but the fact is that this is deeply depressing news for Labour . The Party is crying out for a new direction and all we get is more of the same. All those MPs who voted against the war should take careful note.
Former Defence Minister Peter Kilfoyle says it's" business as usual with the neo-cons" if Brown takes over.It's taken him THIS long to realise?????
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