tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8815896628259616802..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Emily Thornberry's MistweetPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-25602750669710038932014-11-21T14:13:02.762+00:002014-11-21T14:13:02.762+00:00Some future historian (or present-day social scien...Some future historian (or present-day social scientist) could perhaps explain why this bit of silliness from an M.P. who should have known better, should result in Ed Miliband's massive ire and her resignation. Meanwhile, just before, the person who is now M.P. for Strood and Rochester had espoused policies on repatriation closer to the BNP view than to the views of the leader of his "Party" or the previous Party from which he had defected. No doubt media studies students will be puzzling about this for a long time. The rest of us will have to live with the consequences.<br /><br />I'm not too surprised. Noone should ever, ever, underestimate the capacity of the Labour Party to mess it all up. At this stage Labour should have been favourites to win this by-election, not trailing in far behind two right-wing candidates.<br /><br />English politics is getting more like US politics every day. I suspect that this is what Blair and Brown wanted, frankly. Certainly it is the consequence of the control-freak, top-down approach that they imposed. <br />http://ecologicalradical.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com