Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Tory Tax Credit Stupidity









Speedy said...

"While the decision to announce Seumas Milne's appointment as Labour's new head of comms..."

For a second I thought this was a Daily Mash-style spoof, so googled just in case.

LOL. Literally beyond parody.

Boffy said...

Its also indicative of something else.

Labour MP's (of all stripes) continually say when interviewed that the result in May was a terrible one for Labour. It most certainly wasn't, as I've analysed previously on my blog.

It was, rather terrible for the Right! The Tory government has a very slender majority of 12, whereas the LIberal-Tory government prior to the election had a secure majority of around 80!

Labour gained as many seats in England and Wales as did the Tories, and increased its share of the vote there, at around twice the rate that the Tories did. It only looks better for the Tories because they devoured the Liberal component of their government. It only looks bad for Labour, because although they gained seats in England and Wales (though not enough), they lost a much larger number to the SNP in Scotland.

The fact is that, as a result of the election the majority for the Right has shrunk from 80 to 12, which requires only a loss of 6 seats for their majority to disappear. Not only did that section of the Right decline, but the Blair-right section of the Right also weakened, and Corbyn's victory is indicative of it.

The SNP's radicalism is fake, but the motivations of all those Scottish voters who were taken in by it, is not.

Labour spokespeople should stop saying the election result was a disaster, and start describing it as what it was, a disaster for conservatism. That is the basis of recognising that those forces can be beaten, more quickly than some would like to suggest.

kailyard rules said...

Heidi Allen voted yes. Another Janus Tory.

kailyard rules said...

Then Heidi voted no. Which Heidi was it?

BCFG said...

speedy - you are beyond parody.

The right winger who isn't a right winger, the anti war pro war marcher, the I hate the middle class but love the middle class....

Before Corbyn can fight the Tories he needs to take care of his own vermin first. they won't all do a Warner.

Milne is a wonderful appointment incidentally.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton said...


Speedy said...

I should appoint you my PR manager BCFG! If only life were as simple as you appear to think it is, then... well, we will have a JC government in four years time, or 10, if the ideological cleansing takes a while, or maybe 15... 20... come the Revolution.