...nothing doing.
I think I said this yesterday. it feels very much like His Nobs got all ready to roll, then decided to just sit back and do nothing for a while.
Whereas I did feel I had a sense of what was going on, I now feel like i'm trying to sense a whole lot of nothing. I hesitate to make broad sweeping statements based on my "intuition" but it just doesn't feel like anything's doing.
I haven't said anything about the continuing horror of the fetid heart at the centre of "new labour" ie: the philosophy personified by Tony Blair, ultimately about to be sent crashing down by the same (popularity now at an all time low, how intriguing that it should be at the same time that Bush is is dire straits in the US, and how distressing that the similarities between the two leaders should be overshadowing their differences) . The inevitability of it doesn't make it any less depressing. How can any party seting out to court business not become embroiled in a sickening world of backslapping, lying, cheating, cronyism and a rejection of all the values that one would have joined the Labour Party in the first place to believe in. Actually, I wonder about that one with many of these professional politicians.
Meanwhile the Defence Secretary, John Reid stands in the middle of Iraq, ripping itself to pieces, and says "There is no civil war".
Sometimes you feel like personally apologising to anyone you ever promoted the Labour Party to in the past. I'm a socialist, ultimately (with various Green and Economics based qualifications). Yet that word seems to be as alien to modern politics as the word Communist. Socialism is not an anachronism. I agree with Peter Tatchell, who was on "Any questions" t'other day. There are millions of natural Labour voters out there in the UK, and they have all been steadily alienated by Blair's philosophies, and those of his acolytes. There is no longer a political party in this country that is the natural home to working people of a non-reactionary bent. Doesn't this alienation increase the possibility of a surge in the right wing?
And this is the same Labour govt who have made many, many small gains which have helped this country to become more liberal, more sympathetic, a more decent place for women to have children in...
It's extremely difficult to wrench oneself away from them entirely. But what can one do: look away, swallowing the rising bile, gagging and holding one's nose, somehow lying to oneself that there is still a fundamental decency in the Party. I fail to see any in the parliamentary party any more.