Three Completely Unconnected Observations

[poliphilo]

1. What is the point of the Labour party if not to speak up for the unions? We already have a party that speaks up for the bosses; we don't need two of them. 

2. In Europe today it is more important that the financiers get their money back (with interest) than that the people prosper. This is preparing the ground for revolution. 

and on a personal note....

3. You turn your back on a baby and the next thing you know it's eating the dust jacket off one of your first editions.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see 3 as a metaphor for 1 and/or 2, but can't quite work it.

As for 1, absolutely! What with that and Ed Miliband going on about the deserving poor, we might as well be listening to T. Blair, SJ.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's a connection, I think, but I can't quite work it out either.

All the politicians seem to think of Blair as the ultimate role model. All the electorate despise him. The disconnect is appalling

[sovay]

I'd like to see 3 as a metaphor for 1 and/or 2, but can't quite work it.

Same. It feels as though you should be able to get some sort of proverb out of it.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Mercifully I have little contact with rugrats. As to Labour, it is a pity, I now hold them in contempt (I am sure the feeling is mutual). It is like the Tories, I actually have a fre Tory pals, but it is IN SPITE OF their party.
Standing on barricade with bankers head held aloft Rehill shouted "Does my bum look big in this?"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Rugrats are lovely- but I was tired from wrangling old people and didn't have the energy to control them properly.

There really seems no reason for the Labour party to continue to exist. Blue Labour- I ask you!

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

To the best of my knowledge, providing the banksters with their expected haul is always a top priority. The American model has been very successful among our ruling elite and not at all surprising to see their European counterparts following suit.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But maybe- just maybe- something's going to give...

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I dearly hope so. There are already signs of overreach in this country. Even veteran right-wing extremists like my father can be disarmed by hammering the socio-economic fault lines. Drag every political discussion back to the observation that this really is class warfare, us versus them, the wealthy elites against the rest of us, and his resistance collapses instantly.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Kids have this uncanny ability to find precious things and destroy them. I don't know how they do it.

[brttvns.livejournal.com]

'Kids have this uncanny ability to find precious things and destroy them' - there's your metaphor regarding both Tories and present Labour!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ain't that the truth!

[(Anonymous)]

re point 1, the irony is that it was the union vote that got him in as party leader. However, he is in a difficult position - if he backed the strikes the tories would gloat at his irresponsibility.
Jenny x

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And so he chooses to play by their rules. I think he's useless.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

He must be picking his battles, biding his time for the moment when there's a really serious attack by the Tories on millions of working people - oh, wait...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The Miliband loop is the final straw. It's his Hague baseball cap moment. There's no way he can be taken seriously now.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Because the workers don't control the money? I fear we are seeing the death of the welfare state.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too.

We are ruled by people who have absolutely no idea what it's like not to have a few millions in the bank.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

That's babies for you.

They're best avoided, if you ask me...