[bit late but hey]
Browns speech was good. I got back from work to watch it. It was a good 'Brown' speech. A good speech for the party. He sounded confident and principled. Cameron will probably react with policy. Not on ideology. I think right wing parties all around the west are struggling to wave the banner for the free market at the mo. People, rightly or wrongly, are pissed off with the banks. The populist line for politicians seems to be 'blame greed'. Is this the end of the Thatcherite/Reaganite consensus? For now? The shit hits the fan and vvvllllooop we all go left or really, everyone gets angry with no general ideological dispute.
Anyway, Tory conference starts today. They'll probably come out with some tax cuts. If they really wanted to grate Labour, cutting taxes for the poorest would certainly hurt. I guess they'll attach everything wrong with the economy with Brown.
There's a tendency at the moment to wholly blame someone else. We couldn't possibly blame the couple for getting a mortgage for 200+% x their income, or the young professional spending thousands on credit or the banks and lending companies profiting hugely from it. No, it was the governments fault for not stopping us. Of course there never would have been outrage at a Labour government trying to cut the fun in the middle of a 10 year boom. No screams of BLOODY SOCIALISM, if regulation was made tighter while the City of London grew into the financial centre of the world. Of course that never would have happened.
Of course this is partly bitterness on my part. Governments play a part. International this and that. But a lot of the attacks do seem very petty. At least the Party is relatively united behind Brown.
Two things to hope for over the Tory conference.
1) Global events overshadow it.
2) Meedja step up and do some scrutinising.
Browns speech was good. I got back from work to watch it. It was a good 'Brown' speech. A good speech for the party. He sounded confident and principled. Cameron will probably react with policy. Not on ideology. I think right wing parties all around the west are struggling to wave the banner for the free market at the mo. People, rightly or wrongly, are pissed off with the banks. The populist line for politicians seems to be 'blame greed'. Is this the end of the Thatcherite/Reaganite consensus? For now? The shit hits the fan and vvvllllooop we all go left or really, everyone gets angry with no general ideological dispute.
Anyway, Tory conference starts today. They'll probably come out with some tax cuts. If they really wanted to grate Labour, cutting taxes for the poorest would certainly hurt. I guess they'll attach everything wrong with the economy with Brown.
There's a tendency at the moment to wholly blame someone else. We couldn't possibly blame the couple for getting a mortgage for 200+% x their income, or the young professional spending thousands on credit or the banks and lending companies profiting hugely from it. No, it was the governments fault for not stopping us. Of course there never would have been outrage at a Labour government trying to cut the fun in the middle of a 10 year boom. No screams of BLOODY SOCIALISM, if regulation was made tighter while the City of London grew into the financial centre of the world. Of course that never would have happened.
Of course this is partly bitterness on my part. Governments play a part. International this and that. But a lot of the attacks do seem very petty. At least the Party is relatively united behind Brown.
Two things to hope for over the Tory conference.
1) Global events overshadow it.
2) Meedja step up and do some scrutinising.
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