If the Labour Party could have their leadership election all over again who would they choose?

I wonder who the Labour Party would vote for if they could have their leadership election all over again.

Would they know to avoid voting for either of the Milibrothers if they could do it all over again?

That would leave them with:

- a "sensible" choice of Ed Balls
- an Old Labour choice of Andy Burnham
- a new and different black and female Labour leader

Labour Leadership Hustings

David Milliband was really the best serious speaker, and has a hint of fire and passion, but still came across like a depraved-looking robot.  His summing up speech referred to the "poetry of our policies" which was a little highfalutin.  There were some other well-crafted soundbites that I can't remember and they sounded very written, if you know what I mean. Apparently, Peter supported him but has now gone quiet. 

Ed Milliband seemed to be the friendliest and came early to schmooze those at the front, with his minder.  He has a lisp.  Gave a passionate speech and referred to climate change a lot. 

Andy Burnham reminded me a little of the Ken doll.  He is average sized but comes across as small on TV.  By far the most traditionalist: working class and regional accent.  Interesting about making the NHS take its share of the austerity for a more balanced round of cuts.  Wants to go back to Old Labour roots, reconnecting with core supporters and to no longer chase the media and business elite.  I found myself applauding him after applauding Diane, the two genuine Old Labour types. 

Ed Balls looking more like a matinee idol these days, I thought, but he is no orator really.  A lisp, like the other Ed.  Could be fatal.  Canny Ken Livingstone supports him though, so don't write him off. 

Sorry I didn't manage to get a good pic of you Diane, but you were the wittiest and most principled candidate.  I found myself applauding you spontaneously at one point.  I have seen your hair look better, though. 

Me and my mate Oona.  Doesn't she look lovely?  

Everybody was without exception horrible about Peter Mandelson, I am sad to say.  Let Peter have his say, I say!  Nothing much will hurt the Labour Party now.  

Who do I want to win?  I thought Ed Balls at first because I was tired of Cult of Milliband YOOF, but I have been completely won over by Diane Abbott, because she made us all laugh and cheer.  You will definitely be getting my vote, Diane! The thought of how cross everyone would be if you became leader should be reason enough to vote for you.  It is time we had an entertaining politician who just speaks the truth as they see it. 

I should also mention John O'Farrell the very witty and entertaining MC whom I thought would probably be the best Labour Party leader out of that lot.  "If you want to smoke move to Eastern Europe," he told us in the obligatory safety spiel about turning off our phones and telling us where the fire exits are.  Apparently, Gardeners Question Time was there earlier.  

BNP the unpaid, unofficial and only occasionally-heeded think tank of the LibLabCon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7807504/Ed-Balls-Brown-failed-to-heed-my-warning-on-immigration.html

Is Ed Balls getting ready to join the Bigot National Party? Or will he just raid its manifesto for more lovely policies that most members of the public agree with?

http://www.bnp.org.uk/?q=manifesto

The BNP does not need to be in power to win. It is the unpaid and unofficial policy think tank of the LibLabCon. Already the Milliband Brothers are distancing themselves from the invasion of "Afraq" which of course the BNP were dead against the moment that misbegotten idea was a twinkle in Blair and Bush's eyes.

Watch Labour veer to the right of the ConDems!

It's showtime, folks!

They will be withdrawing from the EU next, you watch my words.

Then capital and corporal punishment will be restored, together with family values, after the abolition of child benefit whereupon illegitimacy and single mummery will again be condemned ....

Dr Maggie "Moron" Atkinson's career is toast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8566591.stm

I predicted yesterday that Dr Maggie "Moron" Atkinson's career would be "toast" and I am being proven right.

I wonder if Ed Balls put her up to it. She looks frankly a bit retarded, in my opinion. There were concerns way back when she was appointed that Ed Balls would bully her.

In crueler times she would be for the ducking stool.

The Report by Mukul Devichand and what Hazel Blears said about education and training

Thu, 23 Apr 09
Duration:29 mins

Mukul Devichand assesses the British National Party's Chairman, Nick Griffin's bid to become the party's first MEP in the forthcoming European elections in June.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4report/

There are those who may be howling with delight at this latest "revelation" that the BNP deny the existence of Black and Asian Britons.

For anyone who has read their constitution and is aware of their membership policy, this should come as no surprise. The BNP do not regard non-white British citizens as part of the British nation. In this way they are undeniably and incorrigibly racist.

I have listened to the programme and in the interests of objectivity and fairness highlight the following statements made by Nick Griffin to Mukul Devichand.

Non-whites are "racial foreigners" in civic terms.

Griffin ontends that "British" is an "ethnic description", ie a racial description.

[I would contend that it is not, simply because white Contintental North European peoples are racially indistinguishable from white British people.]

He goes on to say:

"You can be part of our society and be entitled to the protection of all our laws", but we cannot have large numbers of foreigners coming here and calling themselves English or British without denying the right of the white Briton to his own identity or diluting it to such an extent that it becomes worthless. To do so would be morally wrong.

My elegant solution of using police race identification codes in the previous post is intended to make both the racial purists and the civic nationalists happy, but I anticipate objections.

I also wish to highlight what Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, said around the 17th minute of the programme. It is quoted verbatim simply because it is so ungrammatical and incoherent:

"The BNP have divisive pernicious polices that will do the working classes no good at all. What we need is a proper discussion in this country about making sure British people have a chance to get the skills and education to get the jobs of the future. If we don’t have it and pretend somehow it might be construed as racist and therefore we are not going to talk about those issues, then where is politics?"

I think she is agreeing with me that decades of failed education policies has resulted in the increase in BNP support. Sink-school comp-educated "locals"/ "white trash"/"CHAVs" - call them what you will - finding that employers in fact prefer a foreign workforce who are better-trained and have a better work ethic, will be voting BNP in droves, and will continue doing so, unless something is done about the parlous state of British "education", whose products British employers and businesses shun.

I do hope she liaises with Ed Balls, the Secretary of State to the Department With A Silly Rainbow Logo, about just this matter.

Again, I have an elegant solution for this too, which is to be found at

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-model-comprehensive-by-tories.html