A bizarre resignation letter from John Prescott was sent to the Labour Supporters Network today. I thought I might quote it in full: Dear Chair, As you know, for 37 years I have been proud to serve as your Labour Member of Parliament for East Hull. For 13 years I have had the added privilege… Continue reading The Prescott pamphlet legacy
Category: politics and life
Simon Jenkins: how many points can one person miss?
I suspect that one of the things that most irks Simon Jenkins is that despite the fact that he clearly loathes the Lib Dems, so many of us have a grudging affection for the old git (okay, not all of us). Maybe we’ll end up killing him with kindness. His article in the Guardian today… Continue reading Simon Jenkins: how many points can one person miss?
Polly Toynbee – where do I start?
Polly Toynbee is waging her war against local democracy once again, insisting that only centralised super-states can be socially progressive and blithely ignoring the fact that all the Scandinavian countries she worships so much are far more decentralised that we can even dream. This week, she has come up with the bizarre hypothesis that ‘localism’… Continue reading Polly Toynbee – where do I start?