tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post6240205151566132906..comments2023-10-27T07:50:27.411+01:00Comments on Next Left: So it's Obama - but what's our agenda for change?Tom Hampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05917325958130851128noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-46128933587682704932008-11-08T14:51:00.000+00:002008-11-08T14:51:00.000+00:00Clearly an exciting prospect for the centre-left i...Clearly an exciting prospect for the centre-left in Europe. It’s important for us to work together with Obama’s administration to forge a better policy direction for the world.Fabian-Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08676132084955050230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-64437326042984545352008-11-07T23:37:00.000+00:002008-11-07T23:37:00.000+00:00"We may be pre-emptively self fellating over an Ob..."We may be pre-emptively self fellating over an Obama victory"<BR/><BR/>Typo, I'm sorry! I thought it sounded so good too :PLabMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280229279903931955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-2900058329169812352008-11-07T23:36:00.000+00:002008-11-07T23:36:00.000+00:00Had a look at the foreign policy manifesto- nothin...Had a look at the foreign policy manifesto- nothing of worth about ending exploitation of foreign labour. No ban on companies using half-starved children working 100 hour weeks to produce enough Mars bars to make our bourgeois selves sick! The very bedrock of our capitalist society rests on shoulders such as these- and the left doesn't care?<BR/><BR/>Compromises and even zealous adoption of a system that has gotten increasingly dirty (but increasingly ignorable and too far away for our jingoistic nation to be unable to dismiss it). This Thatcherite New Labour has been a betrayal. Hell- not only of the left, but of the democratic system. We have three Neo-Libs to choose from next election! Democracy!<BR/><BR/>If you wanna know why people over are so apathetic towards our politics, I can say that for myself it's because they all differ only in the trivialities. This rich elite that plays with our world (yeah, a Dylan quote) over champagne on super-yachts. Labour is indistinguishable from Tory- so why get excited over either one?<BR/><BR/>We may be pre-emptively self fellating over an Obama victory, but the world is the same one as it was last week. And it doesn't look set to change significantly.LabMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280229279903931955noreply@blogger.com