Sunday, August 18, 2013

This sharpening of knives

Dr Éoin Clarke (of the lefty Green Benches website) says:  "The point we are all making is that there is bags of talent on the backbenches. Too many complacent MPs on the front benches".

The noble Lord Prescott says in the Sunday Mirror:  "If Shadow Cabinet members aren’t pulling their weight, give them the hairdryer treatment and kick ’em out" http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-prescott-ed-miliband-labours-2181006



















It is against this sharpening of knives that we must read Caroline Flint's article in today's Observer.

In the previous New Labour regime Caroline Flint was associated with a series of outrageously punitive policies directed at the so-called feckless underclass including the suggestion that unemployed council tenants should 'actively seek work' as a condition of their occupancy.

Presumably Ms Flint is afraid that in the civil war between Ed Miliband and Unite she will be thrown to the union wolves as an appetiser.

Hence her excessive professions of loyalty to Mr Miliband.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/17/caroline-flint-ed-miliband-labour-energy-bills

Former Labour activist Dan Hodges writes:  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100231544/its-time-for-a-new-labour-guru-coco-chanel/

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