John Kamfner pondered curiously on Brown’s road back today . Were the dour one to curl himself into the foetal position and cry, who could blame him, but Kamfner seemed to want to thread vertebrae into the gelatinous feartie ……
“Does he believe eradicating child poverty is his most important goal, then he has to tell voters it can be done only with an element of self sacrifice”,…..or ,“ Has he reluctantly come to the conclusion that redistribution has run its course, and that personal taxation must now be reduced , if so he must admit that”.
. Westminster educated and opulently housed John Kamfner would not be feeling the pinch himself of course . His suggestion that tax pounds are directly equated with child poverty is a lie , and in any case this poverty is relative and nationally conceived and has been worsened by Labour’s largess with other peoples hard earned‘….
Ignoring the moth eaten three hanky script there is an interesting point . A few weeks ago Rachel Sylvester the Blairite pundit mentioned a source who said of Brown, “Its not that Gordon is going backward or forwards , he is going sideways like a crab”. He looks the opposite of a leader.
To undrestand how he got here you have to understand Gordon’s baggage . The BBC documentary "The Blair Years " showed how Brown consistently argued that there were ‘limits to the market’. Health , education, University top up fees and so on were all Blairite reforms that emerged mangled into insipidity by Brown’s centralising instinct and power base . At an early point in his ‘reign’ , the Spectator recognised the crucial significance of Brown’s attitude to the Academies .This flagship Blair project has been reclaimed from consumers into the belly of the state . Make no mistake ,the right of the Labour Party were quietly routed .
Significantly Brown has cocooned himself away with a set of fawning acolytes . Balls of course ,the unspeakable “New friend” David Millimoron and a host of salaried advisers like Gila Sacks , who, at a cost of £1,000,000 , tickle his tummy and baste him in aromatic oils.
“Target a day” Brown had no intention of changing his views or approach and given the support of the Unions , required to shore up Labour’s tottering finances (£25million just before his coronation) you wonder if he had any choice . Irwin Seltzer pointed out that many in the Public sector are paid far above private equivalents and they know full well that choice will be the end of their closed shop. So by ideological inclination and also by political indebtedness Brown has found himself well to the left of where “electorally “ he needed to be.
True to form he dithered and hid in obscurity. More boggle -eyed alchemist than statesman, he tried to transmute political base metal into gold . A soupcon of Britishness ,a pinched policy or two acquired only a scarring reputation for dishonesty. I doubt the arch calculator was himself fooled by a brief credulouness about emaculate re-conception but the barrenness of his feeble tactics are now clear for all to see . If he is to have any chance of reclaiming momentum he has to make the lie about setting out his vision a reality , and it has to be a vision far closer to the centre ground .I wonder if he hears voices in the night ……voices like this one . Ghost to his Hamlet…..
“ The Labour Party should take heart . It is dominating the battle of ideas and will continue to do so as long as it remains New Labour. It is about our instincts , our ability to keep the core coalition together : those who need help to get on the first rung s of the ladder if opportunity and those who are already there but aspire to do better still. Ambition and compassion, the combination of those instincts remain the basis of New Labour’s three successive victories . They remains the basis of the fourth. “ ( Blair )
“Does he believe eradicating child poverty is his most important goal, then he has to tell voters it can be done only with an element of self sacrifice”,…..or ,“ Has he reluctantly come to the conclusion that redistribution has run its course, and that personal taxation must now be reduced , if so he must admit that”.
. Westminster educated and opulently housed John Kamfner would not be feeling the pinch himself of course . His suggestion that tax pounds are directly equated with child poverty is a lie , and in any case this poverty is relative and nationally conceived and has been worsened by Labour’s largess with other peoples hard earned‘….
Ignoring the moth eaten three hanky script there is an interesting point . A few weeks ago Rachel Sylvester the Blairite pundit mentioned a source who said of Brown, “Its not that Gordon is going backward or forwards , he is going sideways like a crab”. He looks the opposite of a leader.
To undrestand how he got here you have to understand Gordon’s baggage . The BBC documentary "The Blair Years " showed how Brown consistently argued that there were ‘limits to the market’. Health , education, University top up fees and so on were all Blairite reforms that emerged mangled into insipidity by Brown’s centralising instinct and power base . At an early point in his ‘reign’ , the Spectator recognised the crucial significance of Brown’s attitude to the Academies .This flagship Blair project has been reclaimed from consumers into the belly of the state . Make no mistake ,the right of the Labour Party were quietly routed .
Significantly Brown has cocooned himself away with a set of fawning acolytes . Balls of course ,the unspeakable “New friend” David Millimoron and a host of salaried advisers like Gila Sacks , who, at a cost of £1,000,000 , tickle his tummy and baste him in aromatic oils.
“Target a day” Brown had no intention of changing his views or approach and given the support of the Unions , required to shore up Labour’s tottering finances (£25million just before his coronation) you wonder if he had any choice . Irwin Seltzer pointed out that many in the Public sector are paid far above private equivalents and they know full well that choice will be the end of their closed shop. So by ideological inclination and also by political indebtedness Brown has found himself well to the left of where “electorally “ he needed to be.
True to form he dithered and hid in obscurity. More boggle -eyed alchemist than statesman, he tried to transmute political base metal into gold . A soupcon of Britishness ,a pinched policy or two acquired only a scarring reputation for dishonesty. I doubt the arch calculator was himself fooled by a brief credulouness about emaculate re-conception but the barrenness of his feeble tactics are now clear for all to see . If he is to have any chance of reclaiming momentum he has to make the lie about setting out his vision a reality , and it has to be a vision far closer to the centre ground .I wonder if he hears voices in the night ……voices like this one . Ghost to his Hamlet…..
“ The Labour Party should take heart . It is dominating the battle of ideas and will continue to do so as long as it remains New Labour. It is about our instincts , our ability to keep the core coalition together : those who need help to get on the first rung s of the ladder if opportunity and those who are already there but aspire to do better still. Ambition and compassion, the combination of those instincts remain the basis of New Labour’s three successive victories . They remains the basis of the fourth. “ ( Blair )
In fact only economic good luck ever gave the appearance of support for aspiration and in tougher times to get back that support Brown would have to go to right of where Blair was to where he would like to have been without Brown to hold him back( and as he made explicit in the above quoted speech) .This means breaking up the great state behemoths , the NHS , the educational system and reducing taxation on enterprise and work . I don’t think Brown has the guts , support or the brains to see this, and I expect him to creep on to obscurity .He would be better off going in either direction with some conviction than this craven and nothingness . He may well be to scared of the "Labour is best when its Labour "head bangers well.... 'Mr. Tony ' had an insight there... “You can’t please all the people all the time“.
That my New Year`s message to Gordon. Mr. Tony was right . If I wished you any good I would advise you to suck it up and makes some moves . As I do not , please carry on as you are …and I will enjoy your authority bleeding away ..until you are to weak to do anything but expire.
That my New Year`s message to Gordon. Mr. Tony was right . If I wished you any good I would advise you to suck it up and makes some moves . As I do not , please carry on as you are …and I will enjoy your authority bleeding away ..until you are to weak to do anything but expire.
( Moo ha ha ha !)
