How much does the Labour Party hate us? One hell of a lot if they can even consider making Harriet Harman leader!
She’s the worst possible alternative to Gordon Brown. Despite being English and middle-class, in alternative to Brown’s dour Scottishness, she is more likely than anyone to alienate the inhabitants of Middle England that Labour [...]

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This is not the sort of thing that MPs should say:

Labour’s fight to regain the support of the electorate took a less conventional turn this week as David Clelland began an epistolary battle with one dissatisfied voter.
Mr Clelland, who has represented the people of Tyne Bridge in Newcastle for 23 years, has written to one [...]

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Certainly that will be the case if this happens:

Unions are to demand new rights to strike as the price for keeping the cash-strapped Labour Party afloat.
Repealing the ban on secondary industrial action is among a swath of left-wing policies that unions want to see in the Labour manifesto. The pressure on Gordon Brown comes as [...]

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I got a joke via text message in the past week. Well, several truth be told, but one I want to mention read as this:
The Labour Party has decided to change its logo from a rose to a condom, believing it more accurately reflects their policies.
This is because a condom allows for inflation, halts production, [...]

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Brilliant post from Norfolk Blogger on “New” Labour’s switch back to Real Labour:

Yesterday parts of the country had power cuts, fuel prices are rocketing and industrial action is now common place in the public sector and also in the wider community (as can be seen from the fuel protests yesterday).
So here we are again, 30 [...]

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What is a vulture?

Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals

Converted to focus on the political arena:

Vultures are ex-ministers, who make a living feeding mostly on the carcasses of ex- (or nearly ex-) Prime Ministers.

But Tony McNulty says:

The vultures should clear off because there is no corpse around.

Then why are there [...]

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David Cameron says that Labour have “abandoned” the principles of “New Labour” and have instead returned to the “Denis Healey era” of emergency budget and “class war campaigns”.
That they are going back to a class war footing certainly is true, as evidenced by the Crewe and Nantwich by-election campaign that Labour have been waging.
It is [...]

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Yeah, right. Somehow, I don’t think so. Frank Field’s attack on Gordon Brown is devastating:

The awful fact that is coming across is that he seems so unhappy in himself. And I think everybody in the country who has ever watched a news clip of the Prime Minister realises that, and it’s a mega problem for [...]

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John Prescott is emerging as the diplomat of New Labour. Certainly not something one would have expected. In his memoirs, he says that he hosted “hundreds” of reconcilitaory meetings and phone calls between Blair and Brown in order to prevent the breakout of outright hostility between the two most powerful men in the Cabinet.
Eventually, however, [...]

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Draw your own conclusions:
The Co-operative Group is bidding to build an eco-town called Pennbury on land it owns between Stoughton and Great Glen in Leicester.
However, objectors are circulating literature pointing out that Labour received £500,000 from the group in 2005/06 and has a £13.5 million overdraft with the Co-operative Bank, an offshoot of the group.
The [...]

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