Comments on: Who is worse news for Labour? Charles Clarke or Compass?

By: James Graham

James Graham — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:16:09 +0000

Jeremy,

I don’t agree that what Compass are saying is “irrelevant,” just that their solution is wrong. I’m surprised you think that fuel poverty isn’t a real issue!

By: newmania

newmania — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:02:46 +0000

Well of course everyone in New Labour hates Charles Clark which is why Miliband could only “allow the possibility” without grasping the sword. It had to come from someone whose time has passed and it is my opinion that New Labour will not stick with Brown.. The problem is that manner of Labour`s rules make it very hard for the party top save itself and what MP`s know that left wing bloggers do not , is quite how weak labour are now if they lose the advantages of state bribery.
An acceleration of the boundary commission and any move on reducing Scottish rights in Westminster however small it may appear will be devastating to Labour perhaps finishing a Party whose raison d’etre as the socialist Party of the urban working class has disappeared . I find it hard to see the quite astonishing alliance of immigrants public sector professionals and a progressive elite with the working class support it despises continuing ..

Suppose he was acting from the quite honourable and exceedingly plausible motive that with Brown and the scale of the defeat may be terminal .

What would that look like ?

By: Jeremy James

Jeremy James — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:47:29 +0000

It is odd how both Compass and the Fabians seem to have nothing to say that has the slightest relevance to life as it is as distinct from how they wish it were.

By: Carl Eve

Carl Eve — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:05:14 +0000

Not “frustrated”. The word you’re looking for with Charles Clarke is “BITTER”.

By: Lee Griffin

Lee Griffin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:33:16 +0000

I agree completely, they’re setting up the current administration for a fall one way or another, especially if they don’t get their demands given the amount of public support they have managed to drum up. It’s a shame because not doing the windfall tax would be, I feel, one of the better moves by Labour in recent times.