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The odious James Purnell is back and endorsing 'Blue Labour'

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treelover

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http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/04/labour-purnell-progressive


Former DWP Secretary and one of the main progenitors of the brutal welfare reforms: James Purnell is back on the political scene and in a speech in Australia will endorse much of the new project of 'Blue Labour' its quite hard to make out what he is talking about, he speak in a weird 'academise', but he seems to be endorsing a new 'third way'

This odious man is not going away and seems to no self awareness of the misery and chaos his reforms are causing for disabled people...
 
Its very revealing that Milliband wanted him as his Chief of Staff, and that soon he be be attending all sorts of leftish political meetings/gatherings, likely without any opposition...
 
treelover said:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/04/labour-purnell-progressive


Former DWP Secretary and one of the main progenitors of the brutal welfare reforms: James Purnell is back on the political scene and in a speech in Australia will endorse much of the new project of 'Blue Labour' its quite hard to make out what he is talking about, he speak in a weird 'academise', but he seems to be endorsing a new 'third way'

This odious man is not going away and seems to no self awareness of the misery and chaos his reforms are causing for disabled people...
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I think he's almost entirely aware of the misery and chaos he's caused, he just doesn't care, that's all. Personally, I'd be happy if he became fully aware of how difficult and miserable he's made the lives of so many people, preferably by succumbing to some serious illness or accident that left him permanently crippled and in constant need of the care and support that his schemes have so comprehensively denied to others.
 
Maurice Glasman claims that 'Blue Labour' is about criticizing 'the domination of capital and argued for the democratic renewal of the Labour movement to resist its power'. In which case I wonder whether this is Purnell's interpretation of 'Blue Labour' and if so quite how anything he did in office was working towards those ends.
 
Bakunin said:
I think he's almost entirely aware of the misery and chaos he's caused, he just doesn't care, that's all. Personally, I'd be happy if he became fully aware of how difficult and miserable he's made the lives of so many people, preferably by succumbing to some serious illness or accident that left him permanently crippled and in constant need of the care and support that his schemes have so comprehensively denied to others.
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Well said Bakunin. However, people like him and his ilk are congenitally resistant to any moral conversion, I think. I would be happy to be proved wrong.
 
The Extremely Right Wing (Blairite) Labourite types like Purnell, masquerading as being "radical" in generally unspecifiable , but actually amazingly "libertarian free enterprise for everything" ways, and the whole "Blue Labour" enigma - very perplexing to bears of little brain like me. What do they represent ? Are they merely a staging post for some real eventual Labour-splitting move off really to the radical Right come the full impact of the financial crisis on the UK political system ... in a sorta early Mosleyite "New Party" kinda way ? A genuine question.. as I find it hard to figure out what all this "Blue Labour" bollocks is about. Maybe it's just me.
 
ayatollah said:
I find it hard to figure out what all this "Blue Labour" bollocks is about. Maybe it's just me.
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I'm also not entirely sure.

At my most charitable, I see it as a (naive and ultimately futile) attempt to appease the likes of the daily fail. Despite the fact that even when they implement tory policies the daily fail still trys to portray them as 'stalinist'.

The whole 'new labour' generation seems to have taken any good poll / election result as an endorsement of its right wing drift, and any bad poll as a sign it's not moving to the right fast enough.

Their belief seems to be that Britain (or at least the relatively small numbers of floating voters in marginal seats who are the ones who matter from an electoral point of view) are either hard-wired or conditioned by the tory media to be tory in nature if not necessarily in party loyalty, and they have got to be tory-like enough to get those voters in order to get the party elected and carry out (very modestly) a few little bits of mildly progressive policy (although they then do so as quietly as they can and put through a fair few regressive policies to try and prove they are "tough on" whatever the daily fail is getting excited about.)

Bleurgh.

At my least charitable, I see it as a bunch of closet tory cunts who saw better career opportunities in the labour party as well as the chance to finish thatcher's dream of destroying socialism in the UK.

:mad:
 
the new DG of the BBC Tony Hall has personally appointed Purnell as Director of Strategy and DigitaL; an extremely powerful position,
In any other European country this would be seen as a controversial decision, the man who has blood on his hands as the originator of ESA and Atos medocal tests which has led to many suicides is again receiving masses of public money, much of it from disabled people who have suffered greatly from his policies as DWP Secretary. It realy shows just how far gone we are...
 
NUJ about to strike next week over compulsory redundancies at the BBC. Purnell is getting £295k a year, and no doubt a golden handshake, a very handsome pension package and other perks (they get their private healthcare costs paid for). Meanwhile longstanding reporters etc. are being shown the door. :mad:
 
I got as far as the bloody phrase "squeezed middle" what about those at the bottom they are shitting on and are happy to keep shitting on as long as the middle are getting something :mad:
 
articul8 said:
NUJ about to strike next week over compulsory redundancies at the BBC. Purnell is getting £295k a year, and no doubt a golden handshake, a very handsome pension package and other perks (they get their private healthcare costs paid for). Meanwhile longstanding reporters etc. are being shown the door. :mad:
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o tempora o mores
 
KeeperofDragons said:
I got as far as the bloody phrase "squeezed middle" what about those at the bottom they are shitting on and are happy to keep shitting on as long as the middle are getting something :mad:
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Most of them already vote for Labour, and have demonstrated that they will irrespective of what Labour actually do. Its the "squeezed middle" that they have to con into voting for them.
 
agricola said:
Most of them already vote for Labour, and have demonstrated that they will irrespective of what Labour actually do. Its the "squeezed middle" that they have to con into voting for them.
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Except that those 'at the bottom' ie the working class is excatly the demographic that moved away from Labour as Labour chased the middle classes. The BNP picked up that disillusioned vote at one time, UKIP will benefit somewhat now. Whilst the current overall trend is back to Labour don't assume for ome moment that this is a case of 'most of them already vote Labour and they will irrespective of what labour do ' beacuse the stats don't illustrate this at all.
 
Poltically do you think there is a power vacuum regarding the working class, with regards to all the major parties vying for the middleclass vote? I'm more worried about the BNP et al that could possibly pick up more support if they working class get shunned by the major parties.
 
agricola said:
Most of them already vote for Labour, and have demonstrated that they will irrespective of what Labour actually do. Its the "squeezed middle" that they have to con into voting for them.
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A lot actually decided not to vote at all or were picked up by UKIP etc
 
treelover said:
the new DG of the BBC Tony Hall has personally appointed Purnell as Director of Strategy and DigitaL; an extremely powerful position,
In any other European country this would be seen as a controversial decision, the man who has blood on his hands as the originator of ESA and Atos medocal tests which has led to many suicides is again receiving masses of public money, much of it from disabled people who have suffered greatly from his policies as DWP Secretary. It realy shows just how far gone we are...
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Yep, its another of those 'where is the RAF when you need them' moments.:mad:
 
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Immer noch hier.
 
£295 p/a. I am so glad I do not have a T.V. or a T.V license and am not therefore contributing directly to this scumbag's paycheque.
 
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