Didn't take long.......only several months after Gordon moved in to Number 10, the Blairites are back doing what they enjoy most - having a go at Brown. Today's Mail On Sunday wasted acres of newsprint on a piece by Blair biographer Antony Seldon jawing on about how TB felt "like an abused wife" and the alleged misdemeanours of Ed Balls and the Milibands. The only interesting thing about any of this is why exactly do they get so heated about stuff. Because, frankly, it matters not whether Blair or Brown is the PM. There is no difference at all ideologically between the Blairites and the Brownites. It's not political , clearly just personal nastiness and acrimony. And now Gordon is in a bit of trouble they're back briefing the media, bigging up David Miliband, and generally getting set for a nasty bit of in-fighting in the long run-up to the General Election.One gets the distinct impression that these are, basically, just not very nice people. Ferrets in a sack would probably have more of a moral compass.
Sunday, 21 October 2007
PUNCH AND JUDY POLITICS
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Susan,
Sorry, missed your birthday.
Happy Birthday comrade and let me wish you many, many more years of socialist blogging and campaigning.
You are right about the current positioning amongst the New Labour factions. The Blairites in exile (Milburn, Clarke, Byers et al) are citcling like vultures and waiting to strike with their candidate Miliband if the next election is lost or even sooner if we are hammered in the local elections and are well behind in the polls next year.
Brown's people are almost frozen by the sudden revelation that they are no longer infallible and the Compassites have lost all credibility by their opportunistic leaping onto the Brown bandwagon so soon back in July.
Now's the time to open up the debate about the real issues facing our movement and move on from the career planning of the New Labour glitterati.
Keep blogging comrade.
John
McDonnell MP
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