Labour Conference

[rasoforos]

You gotta watch these 80-yr olds! They are all terrorists...everytime I take the tube and I see a granny holding a shoping bag I change car. They could be carrying bombs you know...

I am putting the stupid anti-terrorist law aside, and the overreacting party thugs aside. Kicking an 80 yr old man out and letting him out is not something that they would do again if they could turn back time. Not because they are good and kind hearted but because it hurt the image.

The big issue here is that only one person had the balls to shout 'nonsence'. Everyone else in the labour party is cowering behind that madman of a PM who will do anything to impress his american boyfriend. Noone else dares to object to the fact that labour has betrayed all of its ideals?

[Adrian II]

The big issue here is that only one person had the balls to shout 'nonsence'. Everyone else in the labour party is cowering behind that madman of a PM who will do anything to impress his american boyfriend. Noone else dares to object to the fact that labour has betrayed all of its ideals?

We have the same brand of pompous post-Socialist control freaks here. No new ideas, just new pr based on fake slogans that have nothing to do with socialism whatsoever. Blair had a good one the other day: 'we must stand up for the weak and poor'.

[rant]
Excuse me? Socialism was never about charity, Mr Blair, unless we are talking of your own sentimental Fabian version. It used to be about social justice and a less polarised economy in which people would enjoy certain freedoms and be appreciated for their contribution to society instead of their (inherited) position in it. A society in which the poor would be enabled to stand up for themselves instead of having to wait for Blairite hand-outs, if I am not very much mistaken. It's Socialism, not Socialbenifitism, you insufferable excuse for a leader!

[/rant]

Tea, anyone?

[Geoffrey S]

This whole New Labour practically reeks of the Conservative party to me. It's taken over a lot of policies that were traditionally Conservative, basically just using policies for the sake of gaining votes. Not that this is rare in politics, it's simply a lot more obvious than what would usually be the case. It certainly lost any element of socialism somewhere along the line; where do all these new laws restricting public freedom fit into socialism.

[Tribesman]

Im reading a book at the moment called Haughey's Millions.
Would that be about his full and final dislosure of all the illegal money he got , or his second full and final dislocure , or the third ...fourth ...when is he back in front of the tribunal so we can have another full and final disclosure ?

As CJ once said "Bertie is the cutest hure of them all!"
That wouldn't be the same Bertie who signed dozens of blank government checks for Charlie without ever even asking what they were for . When the whole reason he was suposed to countersign any of the checks was ensure they were not misused . Yeah cute whore alright .
But hey what about Mcdowell shouting his head off at the media this week for exposing his little deal to pay 30 million for land valued at 6 million , but it is really still a bargain as he had another friend that was going to ask for even more money .
Actually thats the same Mcdowell who was shouting the odds to Sinn Fien over the Northern Bank raid .
Yet when the gardai actually find someone with a very big bundle of the Northern Bank notes , it turns out to be his friend who just happens to be a financier for his party .

[Marcellus]

This incident was absolutely appaling. One man expressed his views on one of the most important issues that could have been discussed at the conference, and he is ejected and then detained under anti-terror laws. All at a time when the PM is saying how Britain must help spread democracy and freedom of speech around the world. But at least the PM apologised. Virtually every major figure in the Labour Party did, in fact, something that was very good to watch.

[Tribesman]

But at least the PM apologised. Virtually every major figure in the Labour Party did, in fact, something that was very good to watch.

They are learning from their mistakes .
It looks very bad if you forcibly eject your party delegates in front of the TV cameras .
So next year they will ban TV cameras .

[InsaneApache]

I have been warning peeps about Bliar for sometime now. The man really hasn't got a democratic bone in his body, a dangerous demagogue.

“The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Bliar was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching”

With apologies to Mr. Eric (No relation) Blair

[Marcellus]

But at least the PM apologised. Virtually every major figure in the Labour Party did, in fact, something that was very good to watch.

They are learning from their mistakes .
It looks very bad if you forcibly eject your party delegates in front of the TV cameras .
So next year they will ban TV cameras .