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Labour Party Nonsense 2006 |
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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04 October 2006 |
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Emotional feast. Commentators` carnival. Delegates` delight. A Conference packed into two speeches (in truth there was nothing else to it), Gordon`s extended job application topped by Tony`s triumph. Ave, not quite, Vale.
Great emotional spasms well removed from reality (what Conference speech isn`t). Neither giving any indication where we go now, though the contrast in eloquence made it clear that Gordon won`t be able to justify or apologise for it as well as Tony.
Tony wants to bind us to more of the same. Gordon promised a future of decentralisation and devolution belying past performance. Tony ended with “You`re on your own now. Good luck”.
More of the same puts us on a disgruntled diminuendo running down to rejection. The electorate will tire of us as they tired of the Social Democrats in Sweden. Gordon`s path of duty won`t excite. Particularly if it includes duty to the drain of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nor will sermons stir the nation as they did a Party Conference.
Instead we`ll have the distraction of a deputy election when we need a perceptible change of direction, new policies and low political dunning. Watch this space. |
