Not much blogging of late. I have been too ill with various viruses . And I have been too angry.
Mulling over events of the past couple of weeks I feel that Labour has to find its spine again- soon.Or else we are in danger of losing the immense goodwill from voters which has delivered stunning by-election success in Barnsley and Oldham and Saddleworth.
It is an absolute disgrace that only a handful of Labour MPs voted against the Government's Welfare Reform Bill.
Well done those who did ie John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, Jon Cruddas, Katy Clark, Mike Wood The rest abstained.
Sitting on the fence as we go to hell in a handcart is not an option in my book but it seems to be increasingly Plan B for too many in the Labour Party.
Now most of the council budgets have gone through we also need to ask some pretty searching questions as to why not one local Labour-led authority did the decent thing and voted against cuts.
I don't buy into the argument councillors had no choice. They did.
I also don't buy into the argument that Labour cuts are kinder than Tory cuts.
If you are one of the many recipients of a P45 or enforced retirement it matters not a jot who delivered the redundancy notice. So the lack of real opposition from Labour councillors has been a serious disappointment to many of us.Hand-wringing simply doesn't wash with me.
Nevertheless, we must continue our fight against the real enemy of the working-class , this Conservative-led Government.
Here in Yorkshire, thousands are heading for Sheffield this weekend to protest at the Liberal Democrat's spring conference. I hope Clegg gets a seriously rough ride..
Speaking as one of the many thousands looking the dole queue in the face I'm less conciliatory than some on the left. But frankly I have every right to be angry.And I will continue to be
Mulling over events of the past couple of weeks I feel that Labour has to find its spine again- soon.Or else we are in danger of losing the immense goodwill from voters which has delivered stunning by-election success in Barnsley and Oldham and Saddleworth.
It is an absolute disgrace that only a handful of Labour MPs voted against the Government's Welfare Reform Bill.
Well done those who did ie John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, Jon Cruddas, Katy Clark, Mike Wood The rest abstained.
Sitting on the fence as we go to hell in a handcart is not an option in my book but it seems to be increasingly Plan B for too many in the Labour Party.
Now most of the council budgets have gone through we also need to ask some pretty searching questions as to why not one local Labour-led authority did the decent thing and voted against cuts.
I don't buy into the argument councillors had no choice. They did.
I also don't buy into the argument that Labour cuts are kinder than Tory cuts.
If you are one of the many recipients of a P45 or enforced retirement it matters not a jot who delivered the redundancy notice. So the lack of real opposition from Labour councillors has been a serious disappointment to many of us.Hand-wringing simply doesn't wash with me.
Nevertheless, we must continue our fight against the real enemy of the working-class , this Conservative-led Government.
Here in Yorkshire, thousands are heading for Sheffield this weekend to protest at the Liberal Democrat's spring conference. I hope Clegg gets a seriously rough ride..
Speaking as one of the many thousands looking the dole queue in the face I'm less conciliatory than some on the left. But frankly I have every right to be angry.And I will continue to be
