Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Hey America, are you missing an arsehole?
Yep, Bill Clinton has come over here to hang out at the Labour Party Conference. As he's the US President less of the membership are annoyed with Tony Blair for liking he seems to have gotten the role of reading the wake for the Blairite era of New Labour. Now that we know that Blair won't be in charge at this time twelve months in the future this conference seems to be less about 'the challenges facing Labour in the future' and more about 'wasn't Tony Blair great?' with subtle shades of 'Gordon Brown's a wanker' or 'Gordon Brown's a lying wanker'.
A highlight of his speech, and one that's bound to please the faithful is:
"I think one of the biggest problems right now is that people take your achievements and your ideas for the future for granted. The reason is we have produced prosperity and social progress for so long it's easy for people to believe its just part of the landscape." Voters either thought the achievements would have happened anyway or they believed if that if the "faces in the driving seat" changed, the new crowd would not ditch the things which worked.
Yes, one of New Labour's problems is that their ideas are part of the landscape, not that Tony Blair lied and took the country into at least one war it did not want to fight. It is not that as a result this country had it's first terrorist attacks in nearly two decades and it's not that Tony wants to save our freedoms by taking them away.
Yep, Bill Clinton has come over here to hang out at the Labour Party Conference. As he's the US President less of the membership are annoyed with Tony Blair for liking he seems to have gotten the role of reading the wake for the Blairite era of New Labour. Now that we know that Blair won't be in charge at this time twelve months in the future this conference seems to be less about 'the challenges facing Labour in the future' and more about 'wasn't Tony Blair great?' with subtle shades of 'Gordon Brown's a wanker' or 'Gordon Brown's a lying wanker'.
A highlight of his speech, and one that's bound to please the faithful is:
"I think one of the biggest problems right now is that people take your achievements and your ideas for the future for granted. The reason is we have produced prosperity and social progress for so long it's easy for people to believe its just part of the landscape." Voters either thought the achievements would have happened anyway or they believed if that if the "faces in the driving seat" changed, the new crowd would not ditch the things which worked.
Yes, one of New Labour's problems is that their ideas are part of the landscape, not that Tony Blair lied and took the country into at least one war it did not want to fight. It is not that as a result this country had it's first terrorist attacks in nearly two decades and it's not that Tony wants to save our freedoms by taking them away.
Labels: Clinton- Bill or Hillary, freedom, Labour, Tony Blair
