tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8482196901557198498..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Weaponising Tony BlairPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-6961042340369814162015-02-10T12:34:52.286+00:002015-02-10T12:34:52.286+00:00What can I say? Gary, you prove there are misreadi...What can I say? Gary, you prove there are misreadings and then there are Gary-style misreadings.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-91739214942471676982015-02-09T14:10:51.333+00:002015-02-09T14:10:51.333+00:00Phil, what's going on here?
It won't be lo...Phil, what's going on here?<br />It won't be long before you're flying a B29 bomber over Iraq! and defending Blair in a Chilcot hearing!<br /><br />The truth is I have always known it about 10 years after I became a member, that Labour was preferable to running the capitalist economy for socialists everywhere. The alternative was not to run it.<br />It didn't seem to matter how big the march was or how much rioting damage was done. <br />The public appeared to only offer a sympathetic foot to stamp on everything.<br />Defeat after defeat does something inside the human body, soul and mind.<br />No more convincing speeches, no more 'I told you so'.<br />Win at all costs proves everything.<br />Re-privatise the NHS and re-nationalise the railways all you like.<br />No-win equals absolutely nothing.<br />For sure, there may be the occasional slaughter here and there in the middle East(page 4) but lollipop ladies everywhere will be saved(page 1).<br />You're getting there Phil.<br /><br />Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-25058840483829936082015-02-09T08:44:00.033+00:002015-02-09T08:44:00.033+00:00Mr.Tony's main value to Labour is wisely ignor...Mr.Tony's main value to Labour is wisely ignored by you: attracting money from his numerous rich contacts - such as Aliyev, Nazarbayev, Sisi, Vucic. <br /><br />And I understand he charges imaginatively for his public appearances. Even with oligarch funding, can Labour afford to have him on the stump?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-65468860377366940872015-02-08T21:36:50.737+00:002015-02-08T21:36:50.737+00:00I think there is a big difference for reasons that...I think there is a big difference for reasons that are pretty obvious, but I suppose for some nothing will have changed until the Labour Party has adopted the transitional programme.<br /><br />The Labour Party has always been about managing capitalism, and its radicalism has always been driven or tempered by the strength of the labour movement. I don't know why some people who profess to be Marxists find that difficult to grasp.<br /><br />As for Blair, well, Labour is in the business of winning elections, not using contests to demonstrate the purity of its platform in exchange for one per cent of the vote. If Blair can help secure that majority along the lines set down here, then why not?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-31269779755779407492015-02-08T20:21:19.199+00:002015-02-08T20:21:19.199+00:00Just more evidence that Labour has not changed a g...Just more evidence that Labour has not changed a great deal from when Blair was in charge, other than in very cosmetics ways.<br /><br />It would have been nice if Miliband had told he old war criminal to eff off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com