WRP!! you're showing all the inflexibility of the SWP - isn't the bloke allowed to be human? At least he's honest. He almost certainly won't be when it comes to politics - especially in this foolish race for the "core vote" - look what it did for the Tories during 11 years.
I'm afraid to say that the Labour party now belongs in the past when sectional interests were pertinent - the're not now (or at least not the same sections...). Tony Blair's failure wasn't the rejection of "socialism" but was (and is) the failure to embrace social democracy and the failure to realise that liberalism extends beyond the City. The only bloke I'd ever vote for is Eric Blair. Where are his heirs? Damian On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, John Boocock IFA < [email protected]> wrote: > On 26/09/2010 16:18, Robert Heath wrote: > >> He lived in Leeds for a chunk of his youth, I believe. >> > > He did from being about 3 to about 8, his father Ralph was professor of > politics at leeds Uni from 72 to 78 after being at the LSE which he had left > after the student "revolt" had been quashed. After Leeds Ralph spent a lot > of time in the US and was a big part of the "Chesterfield debates" in the UK > in the 90s. > > I sat in on a couple of Miliband Snr's lectures at Leeds - as I remember it > he was very boring but then I was a member of the WRP........... > > David certainly did attend primary school in Leeds for 5 years but both > brothers and mother Marion went back to London where the boys eventually > attended Haverstock Hill secondary modern. > > Given that they were in Leeds from 72 onwards, one can understand a certain > affinity to LUFC. However in an interview with Labour uncut our chum says: > > "If I’m completely honest I’m a lapsed Leeds United fan. I partly lapsed > because I live in Doncaster as an MP, so I have some loyalty to them, and > also because we’ve had a pretty dreadful 20 years. I’m getting back into it > but I’m moving from being lapsed" > > He obviously missed the Leeds United we knew in the 1990s > etc................ > > I think the Leeds United affiliation is probably out of proportion to his > love for New labour and Brownite economics which are going to be weighed up > against his new found love affair with the trade unions. > > Tea time methinks. > > > betty > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
