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Monday, 25 October 2010
TEA PARTY, JUST A FRONT FOR CORPORATE INTERESTS, SHOCK HORROR!
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires | Comment is free | The Guardian
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Mencap responds to the sentencing of three men found guilty of attacking a teenager with autism
IMencap responds to the sentencing of three men found guilty of attacking a teenager with autism
As reported by Ian Birrell in today's Guardian, three 18 year old thugs were given just 80 hours community service and 3 months curfew for an appalling attack on a younger autistic boy. Their excuse for this assault, they were bored.
The judge in this case had the power to set a custodial sentence on these yobs. In doing so he would be sending a message out that attacks on people with disabilities should be treated as a hate crime and such crimes will not be tolerated in a civilised society.
By failing to do this the judge is implying that somehow disabled people should be seen as less deserving of protection by the law than their able bodied counterparts. This attitude, especially in the current economic climate, that some groups are less worthy of respect and dignity is what led Europe down the slippery path to fascism and war
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Monday, 20 September 2010
Monday, 6 September 2010
Be Amazing and give into Temptation, the latest album by the lovely Emma Wallace.
Emma Wallace
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Sunday, 5 September 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Birthday Boy (Or should it be Birthday Coolcat?)
As the title says, it's my birthday today. I'm going to keep this blog short because I got loads to do today.
First of all I offer my condolences to the survivors and the bereaved on this 6th anniversary of the Siege of Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia.
Second, a momentary reflection on the decision by Hitler, 61 years today, to Invade Poland so starting the 2nd World War in Europe.
Finally, on the day that voting papers are sent to activists, union members and Labour MPs to elect a successor to Gordon Brown: Former PM Tony Blair's memoirs hits the shops with damaging revelations about his relatonship with Brown and a plea for the party not to turn it's back on The New Labour project.
Somehow I don't think I'll be buying Blair's book in a hurry and I doubt that the leadership contenders will be reading it.
Blair, like Mandelson asserts that the voters rejected Labour because it was not New Labour enough. Whoever wins this contest needs to accept that the party has to move beyond New Labour to win back those list votes.
First of all I offer my condolences to the survivors and the bereaved on this 6th anniversary of the Siege of Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia.
Second, a momentary reflection on the decision by Hitler, 61 years today, to Invade Poland so starting the 2nd World War in Europe.
Finally, on the day that voting papers are sent to activists, union members and Labour MPs to elect a successor to Gordon Brown: Former PM Tony Blair's memoirs hits the shops with damaging revelations about his relatonship with Brown and a plea for the party not to turn it's back on The New Labour project.
Somehow I don't think I'll be buying Blair's book in a hurry and I doubt that the leadership contenders will be reading it.
Blair, like Mandelson asserts that the voters rejected Labour because it was not New Labour enough. Whoever wins this contest needs to accept that the party has to move beyond New Labour to win back those list votes.
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Monday, 5 July 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
New Years's Update
So here I am 3 and a half months since I took up Lib-Dem Membership. Apart from joining my local constituency party and a number of Lib-Dem online forums, I have not been as active a Liberal as I would like to be. There have been changes at home, at work and the madness which accompanies the run-up to Christmas have conspired to limit my activities to a few choice postings on Facebook & Twitter, allied to voting on the POWER 2010 website.
Do I regret parting company with Labour? Not a bit. Recent events, like the Copenhagen debacle, The Chilcot hearings and the government's spinless reaction to the Kraft takeover of Cadburys have left me convinced that I was right to get out when I did. If anything I should have left at an earlier date. At the same time the Tories flip-flopping over Marriage tax allowances, Chris Grayling's confusion over crime figures and the continuous silence over the tax status of Donor in Chief Lord Ashcroft have left me in no doubt that Tory claims to be the party of change are totally false.
In the main I have been mightily impressed by the performance of Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and the rest of the Lib Dem team over the same period. They are the only party to offer practical solutions to the problems facing this country. While this performance has not been reflected in the polls, I believe it is only a matter of time before the electorate wise up to the electoral bribes being offered by Brown & Cameron. What is required is for like minded people to work on the ground and in cyberspace to nudge the voters to backing the only progressive party left in Westminster.
The polls might point to Cameron evicting Brown from No. 10 but I believe the only way we can restore trust in our politicians is for the voters to deny a clear majority to both Labour and the Tories. Neither party is prepared to deliver the reforms this county needs, if they have a large majority,with which to swat their opponents aside. A minority administration would have to adopt a genuine cross-party approach to reform and be prepared to give power back to the people who elected them in the first place.
Do I regret parting company with Labour? Not a bit. Recent events, like the Copenhagen debacle, The Chilcot hearings and the government's spinless reaction to the Kraft takeover of Cadburys have left me convinced that I was right to get out when I did. If anything I should have left at an earlier date. At the same time the Tories flip-flopping over Marriage tax allowances, Chris Grayling's confusion over crime figures and the continuous silence over the tax status of Donor in Chief Lord Ashcroft have left me in no doubt that Tory claims to be the party of change are totally false.
In the main I have been mightily impressed by the performance of Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and the rest of the Lib Dem team over the same period. They are the only party to offer practical solutions to the problems facing this country. While this performance has not been reflected in the polls, I believe it is only a matter of time before the electorate wise up to the electoral bribes being offered by Brown & Cameron. What is required is for like minded people to work on the ground and in cyberspace to nudge the voters to backing the only progressive party left in Westminster.
The polls might point to Cameron evicting Brown from No. 10 but I believe the only way we can restore trust in our politicians is for the voters to deny a clear majority to both Labour and the Tories. Neither party is prepared to deliver the reforms this county needs, if they have a large majority,with which to swat their opponents aside. A minority administration would have to adopt a genuine cross-party approach to reform and be prepared to give power back to the people who elected them in the first place.
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