tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post1678650288728918965..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: The Rotten Heart of New LabourNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-25602270650211664562010-03-30T19:26:08.680+01:002010-03-30T19:26:08.680+01:00a great article I found attacking new labour and t...a great article I found attacking new labour and the neoliberal movement. It explains in detail why austerity is such a bad idea.<br /><br />http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/03/neoliberal-deficit-hysteria-strikes.htmlvladimir gagicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-24131026036934633582010-03-25T13:05:41.387+00:002010-03-25T13:05:41.387+00:00You are displaying your anti-Trotskyist credential...You are displaying your anti-Trotskyist credentials by going after Byers. Well done!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-42123265345570772082010-03-24T00:15:57.873+00:002010-03-24T00:15:57.873+00:00Just one more thing. Isn't Patricia Hewitt awf...Just one more thing. Isn't Patricia Hewitt awful? She is like a character played by Joyce Grenfell. Except that, at least intentionally, she is in no sense a joke. On the contrary, she could not possibly take herself more seriously.<br /><br />Note that it is no longer considered newsworthy that a sitting Labour MP and former Health Secretary is now mostly a paid lobbyist for private healthcare. Note how she, entirely matter-of-factly, treated all the Westminster Village think tanks in general, and Policy Exchange and Demos in particular, as a single organisation, and that motivated by absolutely nothing except pecuniary greed. Note her equally nonchalant, and equally accurate, treatment of the circuses that are now the party conferences. And note her utter contempt for constituencies and constituents.<br /><br />Hewitt has form, and plenty of it. I do not just mean her securing of employment from Neil Kinnock by writing him a gushing letter of support during his Leadership campaign, exactly the same as the one sent simultaneously to Roy Hattersley. For its role in the DeLorean swindle, Arthur Andersen was for many years banned from government contracts, and a protracted action was undertaken to recover the money stolen from the British taxpayer. But within about five minutes of New Labour's election, Patricia Hewitt, lately Head of Research at Andersen Consulting, had ensured both the lifting of that ban and the ending of that action. During her time at the DTI, she blocked every effort to prevent auditors from selling the services that they were auditing, and she attempted to limit their liability if they signed off dodgy or downright fraudulent accounts, as Andersen did for Enron.<br /><br />Even more than Byers, Hewitt is the ultimate, the archetypal New Labour figure, of exactly the kind that would be restored to running the country under David Cameron.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-88319768528552877272010-03-22T19:11:42.328+00:002010-03-22T19:11:42.328+00:00The ****** from oop North where I live.
I actuall...The ****** from oop North where I live.<br /><br />I actually worked with his campaign team to get him elected in the 80s.<br /><br />Oh, the deep shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-77088455165278472762010-03-22T18:07:34.341+00:002010-03-22T18:07:34.341+00:00Then again, like that equally preposterous, and al...Then again, like that equally preposterous, and also retiring, old Trot, Alan Milburn, Stephen Byers has repeatedly been the subject of extravagant praise from Michael Gove.<br /><br />Byers and the rest of those caught whoring themselves may in fact have no influence to sell under Brown. But they certainly would have under the Heirs to Blair.<br /><br />The petition to the Queen, to strip the neither Right nor Honourable Byers of his Privy Council membership, is at http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/34948.htmlDavid Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-33069863351241473662010-03-21T23:52:14.819+00:002010-03-21T23:52:14.819+00:00What "influence", exactly, have these em...What "influence", exactly, have these embittered, retiring has-beens, that anyone might consider stumping up hard cash in order to buy it? At least more than anything else, they are guilty of having allowed their vanity to be flattered.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-88023454311924113242010-03-21T19:35:20.494+00:002010-03-21T19:35:20.494+00:00While there's some satisfaction to be had out ...While there's some satisfaction to be had out of Byers, Hoon and Hewitt (especially) getting 'caught', it's diminished by the awareness that all it's going to mean in effect is the Eton rifles getting their chance to pig out for the next few years.jock mctrousersnoreply@blogger.com