Other people think Peter Wilby is an idiot too
Cllr Steve Munby and Cllr Pat Karney had a great letter each in the Guardian on this point yesterday. Made me smile as I sat on the train to London.
Cllr Steve:
The debate is not between a return to the past and New Labour. It is between the dwindling group of Blairites and the majority of the party. Should reform of public services be based on “what works”, or private provision at any price? Should our foreign policy be based on progressive interventionism and an ethical foreign policy, or the prime minister’s embrace of neo-conservatism and the primacy of military measures? Is Labour committed to ending child poverty and developing a more highly skilled, productive economy or abolishing inheritance tax and fuelling a property boom?
Cllr Pat:
In Manchester we are neither old or new Labour but Manchester Labour, which puts our residents first. Wilby’s facile polemics offer our residents nothing, so we will work around the clock for a fourth Labour government.
I’ll let Pat know that other labour party members agree with him. Ill sure he’ll be flattered!
But seriously they both make strong points. This Government may not be perfect, far from it, but it is 100 times better than a tory one.
Did anyone ever here of the minimum wage, civil partnerships or the new deal under a tory Government?