Meekly does it
Peter Hoskin 11:33am
You wait days to see the word "meekly" in print, and then it crops up twice at once. Today's Sun reports on a Jon Cruddas speech tomorrow, in which he claims that:
"[Labour] seem to be meekly accepting defeat, unable to show what we believe in......We have only months to get this right, otherwise we will go down to catastrophic defeat."
While Jackie Ashley develops the same theme in a piece for the Guardian, highlighting the same Cruddas quote along the way.
The Cruddas intervention is significant mainly because of its timing. The MP for Dagenham has clarified his views on Labour's plight before now (including in the latest New Statesman), but with only a few weeks to go until the Labour party conference, this is bound to ruffle a few feathers.
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Charles Hercock
September 7th, 2009 11:40am Report this commentLabour are tired.Meekness is the dignified way
Vulture
September 7th, 2009 11:52am Report this commentBoth these make hilarious reading. Ashley's piece is particularly pleasurable : it is piteous in its pessimisim and despair for New Liebour. What is amounts to ( after unconvincingly painting Dave as a brutish Pinochet figure ushering in a Tory reign of terror) is a plea to Liebour to say something - anything, - before they fall over the cliff. Crud-ass is saying much the same. Liebour, no matter how its corpse twitches, is finished, washed up, done and dusted and Dave will win by default, not because of his policies ( he has none) but because he isn't Bruin.
drakes drum
September 7th, 2009 12:02pm Report this commentThe left are rising again. They could well take over the Labour Party and thus get the backing of the ultra left union leaders.
Cruddas is no fool. He talks and interviews well. He could be a very dangerous opponent for the quiet man Cameron.
In a leadership debate- to which Cameron is now handcuffed to- Cruddas would be a very tough adversary! It is going to get very interesting.
Chuck Unsworth
September 7th, 2009 12:05pm Report this commentSo, who wrote this speech/article originally?
Viral Ganatra
September 7th, 2009 12:12pm Report this commentIndeed.
strapworld
September 7th, 2009 12:33pm Report this commentwho writes Cameron's?
The days of politicians writing their own speeches, sadly, have now almost gone!
C Powell
September 7th, 2009 12:58pm Report this comment@ Drakes Drum: if Cruddas interviews so well, perhaps someone could ask him why, as MP for Dagenham, he feels the need to get the taxpayer to pay for a second home for him in Notting Hill.
Cruddas is just another Labour hypocrite masquerading as "real Labour" or some such nonsense.
Ray
September 7th, 2009 12:59pm Report this commentIf only Gordon would go meekly.
T .England
September 7th, 2009 1:18pm Report this comment"[Labour] seem to be meekly accepting defeat, unable to show what we believe in..."
MEEKLY!! Like hell, Labour are like a spoilt bratt who's having it's dummy taken away & can do nothing but sulk, scream & be spitfull to those taking it away.
As for showing what they believe in!
We've had eleven LONG years of this left wing dictatorship showing us what they are all
about & that's why they are where they are now!
As for cruddas, all he rants on about is the BNP & how well they are doing or going to do,
he forgets to say that it's Labours fault they are doing so well!
Labour!
Always been a few clowns short of the full circus but still as funny as ever!
Gawain
September 7th, 2009 1:37pm Report this commentGood call Vulture, Ashley's piece is particularly funny. The words "dystopia" and "Cameron" don't really resonate together. Change the last word to "Brown" however and you have a much better fit. The left really are becoming agitated.
David Lindsay
September 7th, 2009 1:46pm Report this commentAhem, if I may -
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidlindsey/100008694/britain-needs-a-new-political-party/
James J
September 7th, 2009 1:54pm Report this commentCruddas was the first to publicly face up to the fact that Labour was losing the white working class vote, without which it cannot win power. He did not go further and explain why he had a property in Notting Hill and would not send his children to the schools in his constituency of Dagenham. Could one of the reasons be there was recently a TB scare in the schools there? Or the number of children speaking English as a second language? Maybe he should go on Question Time with Mr.Griffin of the BNP.
Sloeface
September 7th, 2009 2:02pm Report this commentMeek my week.
mac
September 7th, 2009 2:40pm Report this commentAshley's 'beware of the horror to come' piece is pitiful, hand-wringing guff. So bad indeed that I expected it to end with "it's all sooo unfair".
Drakes Drum:
Leftist control of the Labour Party? Bring it on, it'll further guarantee their unelectability.
Chuck Unsworth
September 7th, 2009 3:00pm Report this comment@ Strapworld
And it seems the days of 'journalists' writing their own 'articles' are not far behind - certainly in the case of Ashley.
That was my point.
Woody
September 7th, 2009 3:28pm Report this commenti CAN'T WAIT FOR A GENERAL ELECTION SO WE CAN BE RID OF ALL THIS NONSENSE AND LAZY JOURNALISM. I DON'T CARE WHETHER THE CONSERVATIVES HAVE ANY POLICIES (WHICH OF COURSE THEY DO)BUT WHO CARES. THIS COUNTRY IS BECOMING A LAUGHING STOCK, IF IT ISN'T ALREADY. THE CONSERVATIVES DESERVE A CHANCE AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.
Chuck Unsworth
September 7th, 2009 4:40pm Report this comment@ Woody
PLEASE STOP SHOUTING. You're giving me a terrible headache.
Alan Douglas
September 7th, 2009 10:28pm Report this commentThis is Labour's desperation. If all else fails, get religion - remember the Bible "... and the MEEK shall inherit ..." ?
Alan Douglas
Bexleyite
September 8th, 2009 12:15am Report this commentC Powell
I went to his website to ask precisely that.
It'll let me sign a petition against a new prison in Dagenham, but that's all.
"It's the wrong place for such a project - we must make Ministers and Mayor Boris think again."
I thought he was a minister.
Verity
September 8th, 2009 1:12am Report this commentWoody says "this country's becoming a laughing stock".
No, it's not. The rest of the planet spends 24 hours a day not thinking about a group of tiny, undistinguished islands, jammed with "immigrants" of an alien society, offshore the continent of Europe. That have absolutely no power. Unlike when we talked and acted for ourselves.
How times have changed, eh?
The socialist/Gramsci/Trotski agenda moves forward. They always hated Britain for our success. And they conquered us with only a few feeble whimpers. It must be the first time in history an entire civilisation has been conquered without a shot being fired. Well, apart from the police tasers fired at the indigenes.
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