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By Andy | May 4, 2009
Harriet on the radio today simply not wanting to talk about the comments of colleagues. She’s been out on the road and found that members simply want the government to get on with the job.
I suspect she’s been meeting those vetted by regional offices as acceptable to meet.
In all she dodged the main question. Just what is the direction of this government? What is the big idea? Where is it going?
It is time to accept — I think — that this government has not the wit and imagination to chart a new course. This is one of the main reason why it needs a discussion with its membership. FIrst up, they need to be genuinely committed to dialogue and debate. Here’s a clue as to what is wrong.
We’re in the midst of the deepest, sharpest, recession since the WWII. The National Policy Forum has not been allowed to debate economic policy or taxation.
Such a debate would be a good start.
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May 4th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I think that probably this is where cabinet collectivism gets in the way. Ministers seem to be expected to act in obeyance despite the fact that recent decisions have been disastrous. Did any of them protest when bad decisions in cabinet were discussed - probably not maybe they just nodded at the right time.
We urgently need a young, energetic and enthusiastic Labour leader - sadly none in sight!
May 4th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
There are fundamental problems with policy in my own interest area of animal welfare, all of which do huge damage to the government with compassionate minded people:
1 The Hunting Act is not strong enough and is not enforced
2 We have wild animals back in UK circuses because the govt gave them a green light by refusing to ban it, even saying in Hansard that its ‘not cruel’ !!!!
3 The Labour party supports the breeding and shooting of birds for so called ’sport’
4 It has refused to ban snares (which are used by the shooters) which kill and maim countless wild and domestic animals each year
5 It does even mention animal welfare ANYWHERE on the Labour party website, even when the polling done by the party showed it is a key issue for a huge group of voters.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:34 am
It certainly seems that Labour will have to go back to a complete policy review over the next couple of years. It is not clear at all what the real direction for the government is.
May 5th, 2009 at 11:44 am
“We urgently need a young, energetic and enthusiastic Labour leader - sadly none in sight!”
God forbid!. What they need is a leader with maturity, gravitas - and real experience of life; not some little careerist politician who went to Oxford and has never had a real job in the real world and is thus divorced from the concerns of lordinary people.
Young or old, though, what they don’t need is some little Blairite