nunnington wrote:Just read Harris's piece in the Guardian, bloody hell, it's such a glowing report on the Tories, is this guy really a Labour member? He talks of a 'pretty spectacular demonstration of power' by the govt - what? I suppose it's just part of the Guardian's anti-Corbyn politics.
Also, he praises 'the insights and influence of George Osborne', Christ, who's talking about brown arms? I think Corbyn is the only hope for Labour, as this dross would doom them.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ss-protest
Curiously, given all the "dinosaur, living in the past" rhetoric, there we find:
I read it in a moment of peace and quiet in Manchester, and it nailed what was afoot: a bid for lasting political dominance built on formidable foundations – not least, an updated version of the same populism that served the Conservatives so well in the Thatcher years (all about home ownership, keeping more of your own money, and the glories of hard graft). And when I got to the closing passages about the state of the left I felt a familiar pang of unease.
So Harris claims the Tories are the ones regurgitating the 1980s.
In contrast he writes:
The left’s new state of being, it seemed, is built on a political present reducible to Corbynmania and a glorious past that could somehow be revived, if only the masses understood how horrid their masters are.
He seems to have quite forgotten who got the country into the mess of 2008, or at least failed to save us, was not "working families" or "Hard left" policies. To the extent it was a UK issue, wasn't it regurgitation of Thatcherite policies, housing bubbles and financial deregulation?