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General Ramblings
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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13 November 2003 |
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New Labour is dome prone: grandiose projects costing billions to do bugger all. Now the Olympic bid (Winter Olympics in Grimsby) and the Blair-Blunket I.D Card folly. A botched compromise with no clear purposes because the Government hasn’t got its head straight. It’s on a “voluntary” basis ahead of the technology with an enormous national data base but not universal until 2013, and maybe not compulsory. So it’s useless. Folly on a Mandelsonian scale. Our spectacular record of government computer cock ups doesn’t need adding to. |
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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05 November 2003 |
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398th anniversary of the first modernisation effort.
We’re reverting to old style party politics. The Tories back from the dead have relearned their old knife in the back/body in the river skills and put yesterday’s leader in charge. After all that obsession with Yoof (sic) - which in Parliament means gym going forty year olds. A return to the upper class virtues such as charm (never a Labour characteristic) with a nice wife who won’t have to hire media advisors, dressers, stylists, lifestyle, astrological, diet and feng shui gurus before she dares leave the house. |
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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14 October 2003 |
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Tories want rid of IDS but don’t have the nerve. Any replacement elected by Tories will be worse. |
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General Ramblings
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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03 October 2003 |
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Woe is us. We should have told Tony he`s on probation. Instead folk wanted to comfort him after his battering and overdid it into a Nuremberg frenzy of approbation. |
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General Ramblings
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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26 September 2003 |
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Hutton won’t tell us the case for war was over-egged and who dunnit. It’s about who killed Kelly, and launching Campbell’s diaries on an eager world. So let me write the report: Fucking Campbell fucked it up by launching a fucking nuclear war on the BBC. Unusually they hit back. Fucking Campbell didn’t need to fiddle the fucking dossier. Fucking Scarlett was doing all he asked anyway. With a little help from fucking Powell. Kelly then has to be thrown to the wolves to fuck Gilligan. Which it didn’t. Being a fucking judge and deferential to authority as we all are (except that fucking David Messenger in Scarborough) I can’t criticise fucking Tony. So I’ll dump on Gilligan. He shouldn’t go around taking the lids off cans of worms. He’s disposable so fuck him. Q.E. Fucking D |
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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18 September 2003 |
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It’s time for a change in policy. Sadly that means a change in leaders. Not now. Next year before the election. I’ve been and still am Tony’s greatest admirer. He’s a brilliant performer. We owe so much to him. However the party must come first. Leaders are disposable. The party and its mission to serve the people goes on. |
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General Ramblings
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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08 September 2003 |
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Back to the Not-So-Much-Fun-Anymore Factory. Our presidentialised party, like a fish, rots from the head down.
Tony promises a spinless re-launch but is abstracted. His mates have deserted. He’s lost a year. Mandy minces into the vacuum saying he isn’t. We mill around waiting for Gordo.
University fees are dead if the Tories scrap them. Foundation hospitals have become meaningless. The cleaning up bill on the Long-Short war will be huge and prolonged.
It’s a good excuse for increasing taxes. Which we should do anyway. |
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General Ramblings
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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25 July 2003 |
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Kellyland is our Westland. Not the kiss of death (except for the Blair-Campbell marriage) but the knell of change, and like Westland, so complex it needs exegisis, barrister skills and the collective IQ of the columnist class, most of whom are now going abroad to rest overheated brains. What it doesn`t need is a judicial enquiry with more discretion than investigation skill by a conservative figure who`s better at burying bodies in the tradition of Denning, Widgery and Franks than digging and delving. Let me tell you what happened for free. |
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