I’ve spent the weekend in Birmingham at Labour’s Local Government conference. I was intending to visit the diversity event organised by Keith Vaz yesterday evening. That is until Keith told me earlier in the day that he expected me to dance with a host of stars from Bollywood.
Even if I say no, he will make me do it, said the voice in my head. As this caption competition on Sam Coates’s excellent parliamentary blog shows, Jacqui Smith was clearly thinking the same thing.
Last Christmas I had a narrow escape from one of Keith’s special invitations. He wanted me to play the Grinch at the kids Christmas party. The year before, he wanted me to be Santa. He had to make do with second best. Ed Balls slipped on the white beard and red pixie cap instead. He was mobbed by shrieking children for two hours.
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dancing while Rome burns.
This sort of thing just makes people cringe, Vaz is a stuck up quasi Tory and the rest of them have no idea how real people live or what we need to do to take the Labour party back from these creeps.
We can always vote Tory this way perhaps new labour would look why it lost, sadly I think like the Tories they will blame it on Brown and ask Blair to come back.
What’s a quasi Tory? Is that like a suppository only Brown?
Thing is Robert, the Labour party has constant feedback about its fundamental disconnect with its natural base. But it doesn’t care. Brown and co are wedded to neoliberalism – they choose to remain blind to its effects on the social body.
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