Letter from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Council Housing 26 November 2004 On October 28 Austin recieved a letter from John Prescott with regards to the fourth option. Read on... Read more...   New BLOG! Opinions 25 November 2004 Bonjours les bloggeurs du Paradis. New session (so HM told me o­n Tuesday) new blog, With apologies for the old o­ne’s degeneration into incoherent musings o­n the future of mankind. Like a Blair speech. Read more...   Austins Letter to the Deputy Prime Minister Council Housing 18 November 2004 Read Austins response to John Prescotts decison to disregard the "fourth option". Read more...   Council Housing Update! Council Housing 18 November 2004 Read about the recent developments on Council Housing following the success of the "fourth option" resolution passed by an overwhelming majority of delegates at this years Labour Party Conference... Read more...   2003-4 - The Year Reviewed House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 The Story so far... A loveable but shambolic party with a deep inferiority complex allows itself to be taken over by a dedicated group of meritocratically motivated men. Inspired by Changing Parties by Lawrence Llewellin-Mandelson they transform it into a nicer conservative party, the old association with workers, peasants or naughty trade unions, replaced by a more upmarket, nicer and wealthier friends. Now the dispossessed struggle to take back their party before castration is completed by a “more of the same” manifesto for the 2005 election. Read on:- Read more...   House Magazine Diary for October 2004 House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 Friday 1 October Cooking competition in Hull. Lawrie Quinn and I are humiliated by a team from Radio Humberside. Our dish, Balti Coeli a la Prescott, was delicious. Unfortunately my chocolate mousse turned out like soup. Read more...   House Magazine Diary for September 2004 House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 April isn’t the cruellest month. It`s September. Back to school, university, new job, or, in our case, back to the Fun Factory, holiday over, duty beginning. Fortunately it`s an exciting prospect: election eight months away: the end of the Blair hegemony: both oppositions becalmed: Kilroy Silk rampant: Europe stalled. This is going to be fun. Read more...   House Magazine Diary for June 2004 House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 Politics is now like a mystery charra tour. Off you go singing while the driver extols the joys to come. Later you wake up feeling sick, it’s getting dark and you’ve not arrived anywhere. The driver still burbles on. But you’re lost and there’s nothing the passengers can do about it. Read more...   House Magazine Diary for May 2004 House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 Monday 3 May A glorious sunny day but me glued to the television watching the 1979 election night coverage from start to finish. Marvellous. We all looked younger, hairier, and more serious. The passage of time makes it absolutely clear that people I’d vaguely suspected of being wrong at the time but not dared to say so were in fact raving lunatics. Yet no-one really expected the cataclysmic assault on the unions, the working class and the post-war settlement that Mrs. Thatcher embarked on. I myself got several mentions. The last time I made any impact on politics. Read more...   House Magazine Diary for April 2004 House Magazine Diary 18 November 2004 After seven years in Fairyland it’s back to normal and the politics of déjà vu. The old press line up against us has re-emerged. Except for the Sun. Old Tory drums beat the old calls about Labour being the Party of high taxation, over regulation, flooding the country with foreigners who have designs on our jobs, women and houses. Read more...   Blog - Recess, August 2nd General Ramblings 02 August 2004 FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, WITH ALL OUR MIGHT President Bush flew onto an aircraft carrier in bomber jacket to declare the Iraq War over. Tony goes to City banquets in his stuffed shirt to declare the class war over. Premature ejaculators both. In the class war Labour has gone AWOL. The masses are still oppressed by the classes, their organisations have been weakened, their voices stilled, and their communities broken up. They need our help more than ever. Yet without the conditioning of class Labour no longer has fire in the belly. Only food from the most expensive restaurants. Read more...   Blog - recess General Ramblings 30 July 2004 1st August, from not so August Austin. Yippee! Bloggy Days are here again. At last the summer recess of the most exciting session we’ve had since, at least, 2003. Too much blah to blog. Until Tony sent us away to sit on the beech at Cleethorpes in the hope that we’ll forget about Iraq, WMD, Britain as Robin to America’s Batman, University fees, Foundation hospitals, City Academies and other assorted Tony tactics. “Look I have Come Through”, thinks the Great Helmsman. “Now I can get on with devising the meteoritic mish mash I want to foist on the party for the upcoming election. Divide and rule in education and health, Yobbo-bashing as a social strategy, squeezing social security while subsidising fat cats, giving more boozing time but ask people to drink less and holding the unions in check so they don’t frighten the incoming investment we’re hooked on. It looks so awful Austin will have to ask to be excused on grounds of taste. Or perhaps religion. Read more...   Letter to Mervyn King June 2004 Monetary Policy 14 June 2004 Dear Mervyn Some commentators are convinced that you will increase interest rates yet again this month. Others argue that the increase it will come later, probably in a month when the Inflation Report is published. Our advice is not just that it would be wrong to increase rates again, because they are already too high, but that you should reduce them. Your duty is to bring British rates into alignment with the rest of the world, and to the lower level now appropriate to the needs of the economy. Read more...   Blog General Ramblings 29 April 2004 Normal politics have returned. Normal blogging will follow. I’ve been to Santa Monica to register as an elector in the US so I can have a vote on British foreign policy. You can only find out what Blair has been doing in the US thanks to their freedom or information, their instant history from Bob Woodward and their general openness. The truth tends to blurt out whereas here it’s buried. So I’m now better informed than the fifty diplomats. Read more...   Letter to Mervyn King March 2004 Monetary Policy 15 March 2004 Dear Mervyn King Last month`s surprising and, we feel, misguided decision to increase interest rates once again and move even further out of line with the central banks of the other major economies was a mistake. It`s the more worrying because of what it reveals about the thinking behind Bank strategy. Our recommendation this month is that you should resile from it, take two percentage points off interest rates and bring them into line with the other major economies, hopefully to an intermediate point between the FED and the ECB. Read more...   BLOG General Ramblings 11 March 2004 Apologies for the Blog break. Too much happening in this Fin de Blair frenzy. Main events; Read more...   STOP THE COUNCIL HOUSE PRIVATISATION FARCE Council Housing 12 February 2004 When Camden tenants voted overwhelmingly against setting up an Arms length Management Organisation to run council housing they didn`t just follow a series of other ballots from Birmingham to Stockport, rejecting privatisation of council housing. They also threw government housing policy into crisis. John Prescott’s policy of bullying tenants into choosing between alternatives they don’t want is running into a brick wall. What they want is a real choice which includes staying with the council. That`s what they really want to do and it`s a betrayal that our Labour Government is blackmailing them into voting for privatisation by starving councils of money and letting council estates fester. Read more...   New Statesman Article New Statesman Articles 12 February 2004 The great British public likes politicians almost as little as it likes journalists. It assumes that we each pee in each other`s pockets and serve each other`s purposes in a conspiracy against the people, though one in which the journalists give them more reliable information than we do. Read more...   Letter to Mervyn King February 2004 Monetary Policy 12 February 2004 Dear Mervyn Conventional financial opinion is convinced that the Monetary Policy Committee will raise interest rates. Again. The further assumption is that it will embark on a series of rises throughout the year. We, of course, advise against such an increase which puts you on a slippery slope to a “normal” rate which doesn`t actually exist. It provides a test of how far you and your Committee share the instinctive prejudices and attitudes of the financial interest but an increase now has no other value. On the contrary, we reiterate our advice that you should reduce interest rates by something more than the grudging mini-percentage point movement to which the MPC has become addicted. Read more...   Yorkshire Post Article Yorkshire Post Articles 12 February 2004 All Hail the Power of Campbell`s name. Let Media Prostrate Fall. Not quite how we sang it at Charlestown Methodist Chapel (before it became a carpet warehouse) but a victory anthem as the war of Alistair’s Ego ends with three dead, the BBC grovelling at the feet of the conqueror and government acquitted on all charges. Read more...

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