tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post3242883981773137464..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Another fine messThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-36808450364270061662016-07-02T19:32:44.869+01:002016-07-02T19:32:44.869+01:00Good and sensible comments, Peter. In the past wee...Good and sensible comments, Peter. In the past week I have heard from two contemporaries (I an 67) who, like me, voted Remain, saying they had never before been ashamed to be British. One has an Irish father, the other an Irish grandfather and their children are seriously looking at Irish citizenship. My own son has dual UK and Australian nationality and a contract in New Zealand starting in October. He is not keen to return. What a complete bourach it all is with double-dyed treachery and lack of planning. Mark Carney seems to be the only one who knows what he is doing.AHRonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17883223350162210421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-34064399463315324582016-06-28T10:16:42.672+01:002016-06-28T10:16:42.672+01:00"The Labour Party is torn. It has become a me...<i>"The Labour Party is torn. It has become a metropolitan liberal pluralist party when its natural supporters have embraced nationalism or populism. It has deep structural problems with its social base. It ran an inept campaign, with Corbyn displaying all his limitations, but its problems lie somewhere else."</i><br /><br />What 'base'? Even without the Referendum, Labour has been reduced to being an activist clique. I wish otherwise, but there it is. It would take a reformation equal to anything in its history to restore Labour to a governing party.<br /><br />The Referendum made me aware of two factors in particular, neither the subject or object of the vote. <br /><br />Labour has ceased to represent people who ought to vote for it but reject it. Labour now chiefly represents the outlook people who ought to vote Tory from self interest; the fashionable intelligence as exhibited by The Guardian. This paradox is glaring.<br /><br />The other outcome of the vote was more reflective. I watched a programme about China the weekend after the vote. It makes most of the consumer technology goods Europeans wish to buy. China has no trade agreement with the E.U.<br /><br />The left has drifted. The election of Corbyn was an attempt to row back to the 70s; oddly, today the young who support Corbyn blame the 'baby boomers' whose radical contribution made the 60s and 70s so 'interesting' for the defeat of Remain and blighting their lives. Funny old world.Anton Dequehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07076828639042541217noreply@blogger.com