http://www.openleft.co.uk/2009/09/03/changing-britain-changing-politics/ Open Left is a project aimed at renewing the thinking and ideas of the political Left. We seek an open conversation across the Left about the kind of society we want and how we can best bring it about. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:33:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.openleft.co.uk/2009/09/03/changing-britain-changing-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-280 treborc Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:39:31 +0000 http://www.openleft.co.uk/?p=1396#comment-280 Fine then being working class in the old sense I'll move on then, seeing as new labour no longer thinks I'm worth bothering, maybe I'll go and change the BNP or maybe I'll join the Tories or the Lib Dem's, the one party I'll not bother joining again is the Labour party, obviously they are into people who have an IQ money and ideals, whoops that was me ten years ago, but New labour helped me end up being unemployed without a party. Fine then being working class in the old sense I'll move on then, seeing as new labour no longer thinks I'm worth bothering, maybe I'll go and change the BNP or maybe I'll join the Tories or the Lib Dem's, the one party I'll not bother joining again is the Labour party, obviously they are into people who have an IQ money and ideals, whoops that was me ten years ago, but New labour helped me end up being unemployed without a party.

]]> http://www.openleft.co.uk/2009/09/03/changing-britain-changing-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-264 michael_green Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:10:58 +0000 http://www.openleft.co.uk/?p=1396#comment-264 How come labour's current policies of public service entitlements and industrial activism is leaving them 17% to 14% behind the Tories? This is all knowledge worker based rhetoric. Labour needs a new emotive language of community, solidarity and democracy. How come labour's current policies of public service entitlements and industrial activism is leaving them 17% to 14% behind the Tories? This is all knowledge worker based rhetoric. Labour needs a new emotive language of community, solidarity and democracy.

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