Good stuff, and how nice it always is to see social democratic
rhetoric from our Labour lot, why have we waited so long?
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said it was «more empty
rhetoric from Labour's First Minister of broken promises.
Not exact matches
Labour has much to recover before the general election, yet whether it can fight a united campaign in 2015 is far
from assured, and in socialist - minded Scotland the nationalists are seen as having surpassed
Labour in their socialist
rhetoric.
She opposed Scottish
Labour's proposal for a tax rise, unlike the SNP who recoiled
from their anti-austerity
rhetoric and claimed a tax rebate for low earners was administratively impractical.
From Labour, the
rhetoric needs to change.
His
rhetoric about
Labour and the Lib Dems» similarities on tax and public services was never far away
from courting them in the event of a hung parliament.
Rather than silly Punch and Judy
rhetoric about Tories it might be instructive to consider just how far and how destructively New
Labour has combined a market ideology (inherited
from Thatcherism, although frequently misunderstood) with a preference for social engineering once favoured by what had been the more Statist elements of the Left to create social bullying through rationing, which is what this is all about.
In the US, Bernie Sanders»
rhetoric about the raw deal ordinary workers get
from big business, and his appeals for a responsible capitalism, chimes with
Labour's approach.
Clegg's
rhetoric came to only take form with reference to how his party was supposedly different
from both the Tories and
Labour.
That's why calling for
Labour to use the same policies and
rhetoric from that period is stupid.
For all the Conservative party
rhetoric about Ken being a lying reptile who'll say anything to get into power, it's actually the criticism
from fellow
Labour people which I find more convincing.
My response
from that is that Diane Abbott is probably the most typical Labourite out of the five, in terms of policy and
rhetoric at least, and to suggest that she'd gain votes solely for being a black woman is to give no credit to her or the
Labour membership.
Much of the
rhetoric emanating
from the International Convention Centre in Birmingham over the last couple of days is marked by a degree of ostensible radicalism well beyond anything heard in ministerial speeches under New
Labour:
Firstly, the
rhetoric of hatred towards the
Labour Party and
Labour Party activists is quite hard to deal with especially when it comes
from people I thought were friends.
This
rhetoric has made its way
from the pages of the Tory press onto
Labour's own blogging community, in particular
Labour Uncut.