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For once, I agree with Luke Akehurst
jkitleft Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 09:05:26 PM GMT 
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I love it when I hear New Labourists explain why they would never EVER support the Conservative Party.
My personal opinion about David Cameron, is that he is a hard-right demagogic charlatan. When people say that he has no substance, I wholeheartedly disagree. His policies are the very reason why we joined the Labour party in the first place (don't get me started on marriage incentives for instance, is the first thing a mum of two kids who has recently lost her husband to a car bomb in Basra will be hit with, is a tax hike?)
My personal opinion about David Cameron, is that he is a hard-right demagogic charlatan. When people say that he has no substance, I wholeheartedly disagree. His policies are the very reason why we joined the Labour party in the first place (don't get me started on marriage incentives for instance, is the first thing a mum of two kids who has recently lost her husband to a car bomb in Basra will be hit with, is a tax hike?)
Luke Akehurst is a moron
Jim Dodd Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 04:33:18 PM GMT
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Luke Akehurst is the guy who suggested that a family member of a victim of a terrorist atrocity would make a good candidate to support 42 day detention is now suggesting that LabourHome is damaging the party for giving members a say on the disastrous party leadership.
If Cameron's liberal, I'd hate to see his conservative side...
jkitleft Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 12:40:35 PM GMT
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I would hate to see it. The idea that Cameron is a moderate is a sad joke. The Equality bill, EMA's, Social Chapter, Minimum wage, Tax credits, Marriage incentives etc.
He wants to see sub-prime mortgages on high streets. He wants to hug a hoodie, but not fund youth clubs to help him. He wants to hug a huskie, but build roads to choke him, and not have environmental audits or car emission standards. He wants to get rid of Inheritance Tax. Wisconsin welfare, which increases poverty in tough economic times. He wants to abolish the New Deal.
I could go on and on. But sure, he is liberal, but only in comparison to the 'There's a Muslim pedophile living under your child's bed. Vote Conservative' campaign he was head of last time. You remember, stopping Aung Sun Suu Kyi coming in to the country if she was seeking asylum, or testing foreigners for AIDS. No suprise since Lynton Crosby, the man who helped Bush in 2000 by claiming that McCain had an illegitemate black child, and advising John Howard to win the 2001 election by ensuring that 353 refugees drowned, was managing the campaign.
Even methadone prescription, which slashes crime and homelessness would have been thrown out of the window. This extends now to heorin prescription. Oh, and when people complain about 37 page police forms (really? 37 pages?), don't be fooled. It was the darker part of 2005, when Howard was confronted by Stephen Lawrence's mother, because police were now forced (quite rightly), to log the ethnicity of the people they were stopping and searching. Ironically, when Tories explain in private that one day the NHS will be privatised and broken up, they don't seem to mind 37 page insurance forms.
So, and although I didn't think I would ever say this sentance, hat tip to Luke Akehurst. He has found Cameron's true policies with regards to the poor. This is from Luke's blog:
"I haven't once listened to Radio 4's Today programme since 1990 - these days I'm already on a 243 bus to work when it starts.
Luckily DWP Secretary of State James Purnell does tune in, and is pointing any Labour folk he happens to run into towards this telling quote - evidence of an increasing harshness in the Tory line on social issues now they feel they have detoxified their brand - from an interview with David Cameron on Tuesday morning at about 07.59, where Mr Cameron clarifies the ideological difference between the two main parties on tackling poverty:
"The Labour Party for a long time said it, only it, could deal with deep poverty because it understood about transferring money from rich to poor, but I think we've reached the end of that road, ... we need quite conservative solutions to deal with those problems".
I think we can take it from the phrasing "I think we've reached the end of that road" that a Tory government won't be seeking to increase redistribution. They seem to have an interesting view that making the poor richer doesn't er... reduce poverty. Run that past me again will you Dave?
Anyway, the bottom line is that if you think there should be redistribution to make our unequal society more equal, David Cameron doesn't agree with you. I dread to imagine what his "quite conservative solutions" to poverty might be. Any guesses?"
He wants to see sub-prime mortgages on high streets. He wants to hug a hoodie, but not fund youth clubs to help him. He wants to hug a huskie, but build roads to choke him, and not have environmental audits or car emission standards. He wants to get rid of Inheritance Tax. Wisconsin welfare, which increases poverty in tough economic times. He wants to abolish the New Deal.
I could go on and on. But sure, he is liberal, but only in comparison to the 'There's a Muslim pedophile living under your child's bed. Vote Conservative' campaign he was head of last time. You remember, stopping Aung Sun Suu Kyi coming in to the country if she was seeking asylum, or testing foreigners for AIDS. No suprise since Lynton Crosby, the man who helped Bush in 2000 by claiming that McCain had an illegitemate black child, and advising John Howard to win the 2001 election by ensuring that 353 refugees drowned, was managing the campaign.
Even methadone prescription, which slashes crime and homelessness would have been thrown out of the window. This extends now to heorin prescription. Oh, and when people complain about 37 page police forms (really? 37 pages?), don't be fooled. It was the darker part of 2005, when Howard was confronted by Stephen Lawrence's mother, because police were now forced (quite rightly), to log the ethnicity of the people they were stopping and searching. Ironically, when Tories explain in private that one day the NHS will be privatised and broken up, they don't seem to mind 37 page insurance forms.
So, and although I didn't think I would ever say this sentance, hat tip to Luke Akehurst. He has found Cameron's true policies with regards to the poor. This is from Luke's blog:
"I haven't once listened to Radio 4's Today programme since 1990 - these days I'm already on a 243 bus to work when it starts.
Luckily DWP Secretary of State James Purnell does tune in, and is pointing any Labour folk he happens to run into towards this telling quote - evidence of an increasing harshness in the Tory line on social issues now they feel they have detoxified their brand - from an interview with David Cameron on Tuesday morning at about 07.59, where Mr Cameron clarifies the ideological difference between the two main parties on tackling poverty:
"The Labour Party for a long time said it, only it, could deal with deep poverty because it understood about transferring money from rich to poor, but I think we've reached the end of that road, ... we need quite conservative solutions to deal with those problems".
I think we can take it from the phrasing "I think we've reached the end of that road" that a Tory government won't be seeking to increase redistribution. They seem to have an interesting view that making the poor richer doesn't er... reduce poverty. Run that past me again will you Dave?
Anyway, the bottom line is that if you think there should be redistribution to make our unequal society more equal, David Cameron doesn't agree with you. I dread to imagine what his "quite conservative solutions" to poverty might be. Any guesses?"
Compass Conference - Workshops, Global Question time and Close
grayee Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 09:03:47 PM GMT
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This report follows my first post “Navigating the Compass Conference”. After the morning keynote speeches there was a choice of 16 workshops. I decided on the “An Irresistible Force? Managing globalisation” by Unions 21. Just beforehand I sneaked into the debate on Trident and took this quick picture of Labour blogger, Luke Akehurst, who was speaking in favour of Trident(on left with Jon Trickett standing).
