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17 comments from readers

iainmorse
26 February 2009 at 09:51

er ....can i have a peerage Gordon?

Nilsey105
26 February 2009 at 12:52

"........but I still think the battle of ideas and serious policy debate on the left has more energy."

Do you honestly consider yourself of the left?

redharry
26 February 2009 at 13:08

If I had one sentence to put into Labour’s manifesto for the next election, it would say this,

"We will put all those who lied us into the invasion of Iraq on trial for war crimes."

Diogenes
26 February 2009 at 15:35

"This is NOT labour--it's nu-labor!"

Roland Baker
26 February 2009 at 17:28

Alistair Campell uses the word "progressive", which likens him to the ultra Blairite Progress group. So he is right to divine that he would not be my number one choice to edit the NS - even for only one issue.

But just to show my goodwill:

"If I had one sentence to put into Labour’s manifesto for the next election, it would say this –"

We are sorry we let the banks and financial services non-regulators destroy the economy so we will prioritise diversified business investment and police it with skills, integrity and sharp teeth instead of ignorance, dishonesty and cold wet noses in our lap.

writeon
26 February 2009 at 18:11

What's the point of putting anything in the manifesto at all, when we all know it will be ignored when it's expedient to do so?

New Labour isn't a real political party anymore, it's more akin to a football supporter's club, with about as much significance.

Does it really matter which team wins, when they are all playing by the same rules and have the same aims?

4irw4y
26 February 2009 at 18:48

"would say this" -

if anyone is putting another people, likewise by a mutual agreement, under the obligation to answer the given pattern of questioning, there must be also a gentle limitation of a similar kind to a questioning party: never delete comments if you think you were kindly asked to watch things from anyone other's point of view than yours, pardon for, possibly, teaching new things, otherwise, the thoughts you share are not thoughts but an order, and you possibly do not suppose that the people you address in an ordering message can have a definite grade of freedom, e.g. those who won't follow this kindergartenish game pattern; also it's never too late to understand that in any cosy environment there is something one simply can't ever imagine to have it controlled by a single human or a group of a common interest, especially if you talk about perception of things by young minds to the mentioned young minds, and anyone of 15 years old can say in reply could go on typing this msg during all eternity, because this action meets your requirements considering expressing a very constrained matter in one sentence, and that's probably the right policy the young generation would develop if they really could go on without having the friendly support of improper leaders of the widest range but of same colour, and this would be the way of no four-corner aerobics but the action which teenagers could produce without bringing excessive harm to themselves...

gsb2391
01 March 2009 at 14:06

If i were to add to the end of your sentence, it would be along the lines of, 'we have made mistakes and realise our own failings in causing the current financial crisis. Yet, as the party of change and leadership we are best placed to offer a new path to stability and social wellbeing in the future'. Labour must reveal the lack of new ideas in Tory thinking and move beyond speaking of past achievements.

PeterHCT
01 March 2009 at 17:33

a spoof, surely?

robertdreed
02 March 2009 at 17:00

create a new minimum income for everyone in the UK.

Paul Lettan
05 March 2009 at 00:31

I agree with robertdreed.

I would introduce a "Guaranteed Annual Income" or "Basic Income" which would replace all unemployment, sickness, incapacity and state pensions. Everyone is entitled.

Tax credits above that would replace student grants and housing benefits.

All earned and unearned income above that level would be taxed fairly and proportionately.

laurence n
09 March 2009 at 22:39

make democracy real by making voting compulsory

Tamanoir
14 March 2009 at 14:43

It would be this :

This party aims at abolishing misery so that the poor can regain some human dignity through eating two meals a day, working 5 days a week when under 65 and paying their income tax.

LionelBear
18 March 2009 at 17:13

It would be this:

'To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their labour'.

DAFYDDL
22 March 2009 at 11:16

Not to start a war based on very obvious lies

taghioff.info
22 March 2009 at 14:26

"If I had one sentence to put into Labour’s manifesto for the next election, it would say this –"

Sorry, next time we will keep our promises.

sartoresartus
23 March 2009 at 02:27

This party would repudiate each and every attack on civil liberties, equitable distribution of wealth and state ownership of essential services perpetrated by the previous government, and seek the prosecution, to the fullest extent of the law, of every member of said government over their shameless lies to the British population in justifying the invasion of Iraq and exaggerating the threat of terrorism.