Klong WalkingKlong - A Thai canal.Reasons to Dump Brown - Part 4- July 26, 2008 Labour is in danger of matching its 1931 election results if it can not hang onto the safe seats in Scotland. Back then, after Ramsey MacDonald had deserted the party, they were reduced to 52 seats. With the Gordon Brown impersonator, Wendy Alexander, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party is it any surprise that Labour lost its traditional support in Glasgow (I wrote this without even realizinghttp://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/07/reasons-to-dump-brown-part-4.html Reasons to Dump Brown - Part 3- July 21, 2008 As a young man I criticized Labour for being reformist rather than revolutionary. Now, much older and liking reformism, I can't find any reformist tendencies in New Labour. The closest we get with get to any reforms after 11 years in government is more Thatcherism in privatization. Although often called reforms what Thatcher was doing was turning the clock back to days of more laissez fairehttp://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/07/reasons-to-dump-brown-part-3.html Reasons to Dump Brown - Part 2- July 16, 2008 What's in a name. Privatisation, selling off the family silver, selling the crown jewels, all pretty much the same thing. We can add Brown's favourite, "public-private partnership", to that list. We have to remember that he is a Thacherite when it comes to the public services. We are told that private companies are more efficient than public ones, so why is it that every time we hear a publichttp://klongwalking.blogspot.com/2008/07/reasons-to-dump-brown-part-2.html |