http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/labour-is-also-ann-black/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/labour-is-also-ann-black/comment-page-1/#comment-3 admin Tue, 19 May 2009 12:49:00 +0000 http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/?p=101#comment-3 @PaulC I hear your anger - and of course the Ann Blacks of the Labour Party don't stand for public office so they are not who you judge a candidate by at election time. But I hope that you would recognise that there are good decent people who are involved in politics for the right reasons. @PaulC I hear your anger – and of course the Ann Blacks of the Labour Party don’t stand for public office so they are not who you judge a candidate by at election time. But I hope that you would recognise that there are good decent people who are involved in politics for the right reasons.

]]> http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/labour-is-also-ann-black/comment-page-1/#comment-2 PaulC Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:49 +0000 http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/?p=101#comment-2 Sadly, its not enough to know that the saintly Ann Black is still in place. I know equally good people in the Conservative and LibDem camps, but so what? It is futile to judge political parties in terms of the quality of their support staff. We have to judge them in terms of their policies, and the way in which these impact on the electorate. The list of New Labour policy disasters is too well known and too long to go into here, but the contempt they show for the preterites - well illustrated by their decision to breach established political protocol and elect the placeman Martin - reveals a complete inability to see beyond tribal boundaries and short-term gain. The damage that Tony and Gordon have done to the body politic has reluctantly forced me to abandon a life time of Labour voting. And I am devastated about it. Sadly, its not enough to know that the saintly Ann Black is still in place. I know equally good people in the Conservative and LibDem camps, but so what? It is futile to judge political parties in terms of the quality of their support staff. We have to judge them in terms of their policies, and the way in which these impact on the electorate. The list of New Labour policy disasters is too well known and too long to go into here, but the contempt they show for the preterites – well illustrated by their decision to breach established political protocol and elect the placeman Martin – reveals a complete inability to see beyond tribal boundaries and short-term gain. The damage that Tony and Gordon have done to the body politic has reluctantly forced me to abandon a life time of Labour voting. And I am devastated about it.

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