tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post4615637759580451090..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Labour's Greatest Opportunity is NowSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-74085264670981767222021-06-05T11:23:36.596+01:002021-06-05T11:23:36.596+01:00
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They no longer believe, like my parents did Post-War, that their voice counts. <br /><br />Look at the massive demos of recent years, beginning of course with the anti-war demo of February 2003. If a government should listen to protesters at any time, that was it. The law of averages means that of those over a million souls, another several million were probably supporting them at home. As an aside, I had massive pride in Charles Kennedy's stance and appearance at the demo, and I do NOT believe he would have led the LibDems into a Tory government as Clegg has. But I digress.<br /><br />Did Tony listen? No. And herein lies the rub.<br /><br />The problem, as I see it, is that people are tired of being ignored by successive democratically elected representatives who have made it to the top of their particular brand of political ideology.<br /><br />I have recently come over from the LibDems to Labour thanks to the junta at the top of the party prostituting themselves before the altar of slash and burn, I didn't come over earlier because quite frankly, I didn't like Tony Blair's agenda nor his ideas and leadership style and felt Gordon Brown wasn't the right man for the job, though I actually liked him.<br /><br />Come to 2011 and I see things differently. Perhaps now my voice will matter to those with the power, as all ours will, but we must stop these piecemeal protests and coalesce into something more definitive. It's the Tories that are destroying our lives, it is they we should be protesting about.<br /><br />Give the voter a central, organised and truly democratic campaign with no ideological leanings, such as that of the Egyptians (or the Poll Tax protests), and you are onto a winner (as the Poll Tax protests demonstrated and as the Egyptian protests will demonstrate)and will reap the benefits of participation as everyone feels important, that their voice counts and that they are respected and included as individuals.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03792034795454546606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-28411977236531361732011-02-05T10:46:39.250+00:002011-02-05T10:46:39.250+00:00If i can go just off topic sue but my mp would lik...If i can go just off topic sue but my mp would like to know that if you find anyone that has committed SUICIDE out of despair by the cuts to the DLA/IB/ETC could you post the links to any blogs that you find with the details so that i can forward them on to him plus we ourselves will have a record <br />thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-18704439648643728012011-02-04T18:59:12.798+00:002011-02-04T18:59:12.798+00:00Funny though - they moan the loudest.Funny though - they moan the loudest.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-49596954655017816062011-02-04T18:45:42.408+00:002011-02-04T18:45:42.408+00:00Exactly! Like those who don't vote - don't...Exactly! Like those who don't vote - don't moan then!Elizanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968498385486949779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-73908195362677132702011-02-04T18:22:14.721+00:002011-02-04T18:22:14.721+00:00Elizannie - I feel just about the same - i've ...Elizannie - I feel just about the same - i've always believed you have to be "in it to win it"<br />No good moaning from the outside.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-2243087548072460272011-02-04T18:05:44.495+00:002011-02-04T18:05:44.495+00:00Difficult one, Sue. I have been in the Labour Part...Difficult one, Sue. I have been in the Labour Party around about as long as Robert. I can't say that I am happy with it at the moment although all in all I am probably happier with it now than in any time for the last 15 years or so. So why have I stayed around?<br /><br />Well membership of just about anything demands a degree of compromise, otherwise we would all be in political parties, tennis clubs and religions of one. And I also believe in the 'if I ain't in it, I can't change it' philosophy. So if I had left the party when it was really annoying me, in the mid to late '90s say - well I couldn't have claimed any credit if things got better [in my opinion of course!] And if things got worse - I would not have had the right to complain, would I?<br /><br />So I am still here, fighting my corner in that I still defend the policies in which I believe and argue against those I feel are detremental. But what I won't do is wash my dirty linen in public - which is something too many of us party members are good at. Sure I complain privately! But this is still the party with whom I feel most at home, the party as Robert pointed out of so many of my heroes [and some of whom I am just old enough to remember!]: Aneurin Bevan, Michael Foot, Tony Benn and oh so many more!Elizanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968498385486949779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-86638927057823850502011-02-04T17:15:04.654+00:002011-02-04T17:15:04.654+00:00Vanilla Rose - my loyalty is to the ideals of Labo...Vanilla Rose - my loyalty is to the ideals of Labour - whoever's in charge might get those wrong, but Labour values are always right IMO. <br /><br />Robert - I think your comment echoes SOOOO many previous Labour supporters - if you read what I wrote, I'm actually speaking for the millions like you who felt Labour stopped being....well, Labour.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-27148642039922976862011-02-04T12:38:27.037+00:002011-02-04T12:38:27.037+00:00I know many people are fiercely loyal to their pol...I know many people are fiercely loyal to their political party, no matter what it comes up with, so I think I understand your loyalty to Labour. But you haven't convinced me to break my life long tradition of voting Green.Vanilla Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07946634138308342764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-34877147814348159132011-02-04T11:04:05.967+00:002011-02-04T11:04:05.967+00:00NO sorry the people of this country are not as sil...NO sorry the people of this country are not as silly as they were once upon a time, for god sake Nye Bevan was a brilliant uneducated politician helped to produce the NHS, welfare with others of course, but once he got down to talking about a living wage the labour party decided he was a liability and actually kicked him out of power, it always annoyed him.<br /><br />I've lived through a number of labour governments, we always expected a lot but ended up thinking what the hell went wrong.<br /><br />I've spent 46 years in the labour party, through some of the good times although not many to the bad times of seeing troops go to war on a lie.<br /><br />But thats not the worse the worse is seeing MP's telling us they are hero's our troops are hero's, yet hero's on the min wage.<br /><br />troops were paid a pittance for losing arms and legs mental health problems having to go to court to get higher benefits. not forgetting our troops have to go through the new medicals, if as Labour wanted to end DLA he was also talking about the troops as well, what a bloody disgrace.<br /><br />The fact is what can labour now tell me that would make me think labour is the party for me, well they cannot now say welfare reforms are wrong, because they brought them in so Miliband has said he will back them.<br /><br />Your wrong about being in the center does not mean your right wing, because new labour was right wing.<br /><br />Once you start locking up children in detention camps somethings gone wrong, once you have a leader who thinks using words from the BNP is correct you know your heading for the exit.<br /><br />Labour has a problem it's serious, Cameron is Blair.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05186557603493331701noreply@blogger.com