Thursday, September 02, 2010

Caroline on the Labour leadership contest

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"The leadership campaign thus reflects all that is worst in our politics: blandness, a lack of honesty, and a choice between slight variations on the same product, namely weak social democracy overshadowed by subservience to the market and international commercial interests. It is not a formula to restore faith in politics, help realign the left, or build a foundation for an assault on the coalition, let alone choose a future PM."
Quite, Caroline. Quite.

7 comments:

  1. Yeah, I like her. I can't say the same thing about south Devon greens though (the ones I've met).

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  3. The problem is, Muhamad, that the Green Party is run by human beings, wih all the associated petty bigotries, failings and flaws that all human beings possess. I was at a car boot sale yesterday getting rid of some of our junk and there was this lady across from us with two carloads of baby clothes which she and this bloke were selling. Clearly running a retail business out of the boots of their car, they seemed nice enough and bought a couple of our baby things and chatted to us. She was loving the baby and made a point of mentioning that she thought we were better off raising her in NZ. I agreed and made the usual comment about things in the UK looking to get rapidly worse, without suggesting any explicit causes. She then observed that "we should have shut our doors years ago", providing me with a 'look' to emphasise her point. I was actually shocked at this overt xenophobia. I really hadn't expected it and was so thrown that I didn't even have the wherewithall to fish for a clearer statement of her convictions. She'd seemed quite ordinary and pleasant enough and I didn't imagine for one second that she would be so brazen as to voice that sort of opinion to a complete stranger. I mean, what are you meant to say in response to that? I suppose should have pointed out that I would much rather share my country with immigrants than have to live exclusively with small-minded little Englanders like her.

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  4. The South Devon Greens are a strange lot dude, I know people who live in South Devon but have joined the Exeter Green Party. Weren’t they supposed to split in to two groups – a Totnes branch and rest of South Devon branch, according to the PRSD.

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  5. I don't know, but after the Sarah Goldsmith debacle I don't trust any of them further than I can spit. The Plymouth Greens seem a nice enough and relatively grounded bunch, the handful of them that there are. The Torbay group seems to be a sack full of earth-children who are happy to be led by someone who sincerely believes herself to be a witch.

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