Bruce Napier and Dave Larrington wrote: > >> Meanwhile, where does this one come from: > >> > >> "Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for > which the > >> Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do > this in the > >> name of Socialism." > > > > The 2005 Labour Party manifesto? > > > Certainly the subtext of it. Machine politics and the pursuit > of power for its own sake, anyone?
Or how about this from the Letters page of today's Independent: Paine's wisdom "We are oppressed with a heavy national debt, the burden of taxes, and an expensive administration of government. We have also a very numerous poor; and we hold that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue." So said Tom Paine, the 200th anniversary of whose death we have been celebrating up here in Norfolk in his home town of Thetford. You should have heard the crowd when that quote was read out this weekend. Matthew Williams Norwich
