Bonkers or What?
The trouble with politics is that it can be so terribly unreasonable and blinkered - so bad in fact that it could give an aspirin a headache - sometimes.
Witness this blog post from one of Saturday's protest marchers - who's clearly spitting mad with the Labour party opposition - never mind the government.
Now the author may have a point about opportunism by the Labour party - but if he's against the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour - then just who else does he think should be forming a government - and running the country?
I think we should be told.
"There is an alternative, but it is not the Labour Party"
by Jody McIntyre - posted on Notebook - Monday, 28 March 2011
"On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people marched through London to demonstrate against the governments’ cuts and to advocate for an alternative. The demonstration ended with a rally at Hyde Park, but the fact that Ed Miliband, head of the Labour Party, was invited to speak at the rally, is an insult.
Let us not have a memory that goes back two days. Let us remind ourselves who introduced University tuition fees; Tony Blair’s Labour Party. Let us remind ourselves who commissioned the Browne Review, which recommended a huge rise in tuition fees; Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. Let us remind ourselves who currently supports the bombing of the Libyan people; not only the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, but also, Ed Miliband’s Labour Party.
In order to build an effective resistance here, we must support people resisting across the world. We must support the brave resistance of the Iraqi and Afghani people against the occupation of their countries, not the political Party who sent our soldiers to kill them and to die. We must support the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, not the Party who supports their oppressor.
The Labour Party have just as much a history of war and imperialism as any of the other major political Parties, and until that is challenged, our movement cannot succeed. Yes, we are fighting to save our National Health Service, but the privatisation of the NHS did not begin over the last few months, it began under the previous Labour government. We are fighting to save people’s jobs, not to put Labour politicians back into jobs that they failed at miserably for eight years.
How dare Ed Miliband mention the Suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Apartheid struggle? They were movements of the people, not of the establishment. The Labour Party are playing an obvious political game in attempting to exploit the suffering of the poorer sections of society, and to co-opt the anti-cuts movement into support for their own political campaign. We must resist these attempts at every stage."
Witness this blog post from one of Saturday's protest marchers - who's clearly spitting mad with the Labour party opposition - never mind the government.
Now the author may have a point about opportunism by the Labour party - but if he's against the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour - then just who else does he think should be forming a government - and running the country?
I think we should be told.
"There is an alternative, but it is not the Labour Party"
by Jody McIntyre - posted on Notebook - Monday, 28 March 2011
"On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people marched through London to demonstrate against the governments’ cuts and to advocate for an alternative. The demonstration ended with a rally at Hyde Park, but the fact that Ed Miliband, head of the Labour Party, was invited to speak at the rally, is an insult.
Let us not have a memory that goes back two days. Let us remind ourselves who introduced University tuition fees; Tony Blair’s Labour Party. Let us remind ourselves who commissioned the Browne Review, which recommended a huge rise in tuition fees; Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. Let us remind ourselves who currently supports the bombing of the Libyan people; not only the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, but also, Ed Miliband’s Labour Party.
In order to build an effective resistance here, we must support people resisting across the world. We must support the brave resistance of the Iraqi and Afghani people against the occupation of their countries, not the political Party who sent our soldiers to kill them and to die. We must support the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, not the Party who supports their oppressor.
The Labour Party have just as much a history of war and imperialism as any of the other major political Parties, and until that is challenged, our movement cannot succeed. Yes, we are fighting to save our National Health Service, but the privatisation of the NHS did not begin over the last few months, it began under the previous Labour government. We are fighting to save people’s jobs, not to put Labour politicians back into jobs that they failed at miserably for eight years.
How dare Ed Miliband mention the Suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Apartheid struggle? They were movements of the people, not of the establishment. The Labour Party are playing an obvious political game in attempting to exploit the suffering of the poorer sections of society, and to co-opt the anti-cuts movement into support for their own political campaign. We must resist these attempts at every stage."
