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4 comments from readers

Stazia
09 September 2008 at 23:13

The GLF manifesto has largely been made the law of the land, they were extremist thugs in their day, so maybe enough is enough. The reason that gay pride in Amsterdam is a dead loss,is that the Dutch gave them everything they asked for, and then wrote gay people off as a marginal issue. So what else is there to give in Britain, they want a new era of McCarthyism?

Roland Baker
10 September 2008 at 07:32

Remember that the TUC represents half the number of people today that it represented in 1979 because of what it did in 1979. You can take the opportunity to represent half the number of people in 20 years' time that you represent today if you wish.

There is nothing here about the plight of people who do not enjoy the security and salaries of Trade Union General Secretaries and are part of the "flexible labour market".

With regard to public service broadcasting, you have no right to tax TV viewers from the low-paid flexible labour markets so over-paid NUJ members can enter into cosy green room deals with politicians to cover up the truth and agree not to interview them on matters they would rather not discuss.

Andrew Graystone
10 September 2008 at 11:08

Hang on a minute. You can't just use a phrase like "homophobe Joel Edwards" without backing it up. He may well have homophobic friends. But can you produce a scrap of evidence that Joel Edwards himself is homophobic? I don't think so. The campaign against him is shameful, discriminatory and biased, and the LGBT movement should be ashamed of it. How about withdrawing your nasty remark, or at least producing some evidence.

gnuneo
11 September 2008 at 00:59

as you say, new-labour are going down, and the fact that they are choosing the tory path of blaming the workers for "inflationary pay increases" whilst not giving a tuppence worth of media focus on those who are creaming off the billions from the UK economy (which, btw, is ALSO inflationary), is part and parcel of WHY they are going down.

not a peep in the mainstream press recently about how the top 10% of British wealthy have doubled their wealth in the last 11 yrs, but lots and lots about how maintaining the wage rates of the millions of normal Britons will cause the economy to crash.

really, you would think, if you thought about it, that the Govt that is supposed to be the Govt for ALL the British, would look at someone raking in millions every year from others hard work (ie 'owners'), compare them to someone working 40hrs or more on £14k or less - and decide it would be beneficial to put the crunch not on the poorest, but on the wealthiest.

after all, in economic terms, a healthy economy is not one with 4 Billionaires and 60M peasants, no matter what milton friedman claimed, it is one where the wealth gap is as small as possible - allowing capitalism and the market to do its work.

what a pity therefore, 2 things - one that we have anti-democratic, anti-capitalists in power, who wish only to enrich and empower the Feudal Few, and secondly, that the Journalists are more concerned with what their bosses want them to write about, than about actually working to empower, enlighten, and warn the Public about what is actually happening.

the irony is, if the TUC actually stood up and forced the Govt to change course instead of shouting fire and brimstone then wringing hands when it comes to actual policy, then this IS the best possible chance for keeping the tories out.

the people want to see rising living standards for *them* - not the fuckers already living in mansions. Do we really want to see 80% of the population incomes falling dramatically, whilst the top 10% continue on their stratospheric course, as is the new-Labour-Thatcherite 'plan' for dealing with this recession?

i doubt it, and whilst no doubt the murdockracy will gnash and wail, and the media will be hysterical about a new 'winter of discontent', and grave members of the CBI will be brought out to opine about how striking makes it all harder for everyone, somehow i suspect there is more will amongst the People then we are led to believe after almost 3 decades of right-wing, reactionary, elitist and feudal Thatcherite Hegemony.

and the last comment is - so bloody WHAT if it brings down this Govt? It is in reality not a real Labour Govt anyway!

lets get rid of new-Labour, and get the social democrats back in. What meaning does voting have, when the 3 main choices all have the same policies - screw the People, enrich the Rich.