Mandelson, the scare-monger ?

[Papaumau]

"Lord" Peter Mandelson, who came back from the dead and who finished up right back at the top again, with a peerage, who was obviously a Blairite before he was kicked out of government, is now saying that if the Labour Party, ( or more-correctly the New-Labour Party ), tries to move back to it's roots so as to draw a line between true Labour policies and ersatz Tory policies just to get votes, this will mean that "Labour" will have many years in opposition rather than in government.

He also attacks the favourite for the new Labour leadership, left-leaning Ed Miliband, saying that if he is elected he will take the party back to it's roots.

See THIS and tell us what you think about the idea.


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I say that this might not be a bad thing as in my estimation the New-Labourites seriously lost their way and abrogated their responsibilities to the working classes when they lurched over to the right wing.

I think that a modernised and Socialist-leaning true LABOUR party is what is needed to bring back this party to where it traditionally was more comfortable and more effective.

What say you.

[Papaumau]

Ed Miliband hits back at what he calls New-Labour's "yesterday's man".

See the story HERE.

Surely the British voters are so seriously disenchanted with what New-Labour tried to do as they aimed for the disaffected Tory vote in order to get electable again that they are now ready to see Labour try to find it's roots once more.

The Labour party was formed by Keir Hardie so that the working people of Britain would have a political party that would represent them and Blair took this admirable ethic and twisted it so that the better off and the upper middle-classes in Britain might be attracted to this general-purpose party.

We all now know that this idea did NOT work and that if any political party wants to serve the demographic that made it, it should not try to be "all things to all men".

As the Ed Miliband leadership machine is being supported by almost all of the "Old-Labour" voters PLUS many youngsters that have never followed any political party before I see no reason why we now cannot expect a truly "new" Labour Party to grow out of the seriously-discredited "New-labourites",  that Blair created.

What we need is a party that really cares about the ordinary people of Britain but that is not bogged down by too much allegiance to the unions or too much connection to the right-wing voters of Britain.

Anybody ? 

[Ivanhoe]

//////What say you/////

I say that controlled poverty is by design care of the right of the Tory party, it is their particular arrogance.

Traditional Labour were formed to stand up for Britain's working classes, the sick, and the old, traditional Labour policies reflected this.

I have always been a fighter for the underdog, it is in my genes, I also detest bullies, so for me traditional Labour must be returned to run this country.