Archive for July, 2016

A Road Map For Labour

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

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Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and deep thinking, the narrative will grip you like a thriller and open your eyes to a brighter, fairer future in a mere 25000 words. The ideas are relevant whether Brexit goes In or Out. Frank and at a times brutal, Turn Left To Power offers a collection of fundamental reforms which amount to a political revolution which can propel Labour back to government in 2020.

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The Parliamentary Labour Party

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

Is rotten, childish, self centered, inward looking, detached completely from the wider public and the vast reservoir of working class and middle class supporters whom it has abandoned, hooked on trivia and infighting and immune to the issues which bedevil people’s lives. It hates Corbyn because he speaks for the multitude against them. It is determined to get rid of him.

In the few months he has been in office,  Corbyn, without any help from the PLP, has changed the political conversation, thwarted one after another of the Tory government’s muddled legislative adventures, pulled the whole of the centre to the left and increased Labour’s vote share and grand total in every single election, local and national, fought on his watch. He is also by far and  away the best known politician in the country, now eclipsing even Boris.

But the PLP want to replace him with Owen Smith.

Who?

Good Holiday Reading: Thatcher Era Thriller

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

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Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage in political intrigue, sex, money laundering and murder, pursued by an Irish investigative journalist and his girlfriend, the daughter of a cabinet minister found dead in a hotel room after bondage sex.

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Dover Crisis : New Government Stumbles

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

This is not a good beginning for the May government. The first issue which directly affects ordinary people in a very trying way called out for a proactive response from government, which was warned early in the week that because of the French state of emergency and extra security demands across France, action in support was needed at Dover. Not only was nothing done, but nobody from government was anywhere to be seen.

Where is the Transport Secretary?

Where is the Home Secretary?

Why are people being left in traffic jams for over 24 hours?

We had the same crisis last year for a different reason. Nobody learns anything in Whitehall. As for the way this country is governed, no wonder people  are getting angry.

Labour : A New Economic Settlement

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

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Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and deep thinking, the narrative will grip you like a thriller and open your eyes to a brighter, fairer future in a mere 25000 words. The ideas are relevant whether Brexit goes In or Out. Frank and at a times brutal, Turn Left To Power offers a collection of fundamental reforms which amount to a political revolution which can propel Labour back to government in 2020.

Check it out now. Paperback £4.99   Kindle £1.99     AMAZON UK

Labour Leadership: Election or Confrontation?

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

The battle for the Labour leadership is not really about who leads. It is about what is led and for what purpose.  And it is about public disaffection with the whole of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Globalization is tottering because most people are worse off because of it. In our national context the interests of the working classes, the lack of decent skills based jobs, relevant education, prospects for young people, housing, healthcare, work life balance, childcare or a host of other details which affect everyday life, have left them struggling and feeling politically abandoned. Then along came a sprightly grandfatherly figure with a grey beard who listened to them, spoke their language, argued their cases and changed the political conversation.

They joined his party in unprecedented numbers, elected him their leader by an landslide and watched in dismay as an angry and spiteful Labour party in Parliament, for the most part with blood on its hands for being a co-architect of the most unbalanced and unfair economic settlement since WWII, did everything it could to get rid of him. When its many strategies failed, it forced a re-run election, which it plans to win. Well it may not work out quite like that.

The cry from this pool of selfish mediocrity which loves the game of politics and the endless brawling as a way of life, is that Corbyn is not a leader. Oh? He is certainly the best leader of the Labour Movement since Clement Attlee. That he falls short in the eyes of the PLP may be something to do with the fact that most of them are not worth leading.

A Way Forward For Labour

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

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Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and deep thinking, the narrative will grip you like a thriller and open your eyes to a brighter, fairer future in a mere 25000 words. The ideas are relevant whether Brexit goes In or Out. Frank and at a times brutal, Turn Left To Power offers a collection of fundamental reforms which amount to a political revolution which can propel Labour back to government in 2020.

Check it out now. Paperback £4.99   Kindle £1.99     AMAZON UK

So Can Trump Be Stopped?

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

We will perhaps know more when the Democratic Convention is complete and we have seen the color of Clinton’s campaign. But meanwhile here are the key themes from Trump which resonate with what is now an international surge against the way things are and all the people and institutions who have had a hand in shaping them that way.

Trump Says

Only and outsider can effectively deal with America’s problems

Globalization has not worked for too many Americans

Instead he will offer Americanization, putting America first

He will bring jobs back for the traditional working class

He will be their voice

He will  scrap unfair trade deals

He will make America safe

He will stop terrorists getting in

He will destroy IS as a threat

He will reduce crime

He will put a stop to America’s disastrous interventions overseas and make allies pay more for their own defense

There is more, but this is enough to get a lot of people voting who have not bothered to do so for years. And how do Americans know he has the will and competence to do all this?

They don’t. The only way to find out is to elect him. They just might.

 

Transatlantic Politcal Thriller: Perfect Holiday Reading: Download or Paperback

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years.  This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and the United States become engaged in the drama, with one side determined to get the secrets out and the other determined to keep them hidden.
Rachael battles forward to unearth the truth both from intrigues of the Nazi era, but also within her own family, surviving three attempts on her life, before finally achieving her goal. Not only does she expose the truth from history and from her own roots, she has to delve deep into her own emotions to find the truth about herself.

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Turkey: Is All Well?

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Democracies do not suffer coups because change is effected through the ballot boxes. Neither do they have purges of tens of thousands of officials nor do they have laws declared by decree. In Turkey all this is happening right now. This is unacceptable for a candidate for membership of the EU and certainly for membership of NATO. While the West must do nothing which will risk internal conflict or other upheavals in its ally,  another failed state is the last thing anybody wants, it must proceed with caution and urge a return to the secular and democratic principles which are the foundation of the modern Turkish state.