Encouraging sign of life in Victoria Street. The Labour Party, once a fearsome campaigning organisation, has put out an attack on David Cameron that is simple, effective, web-literate and funny.
Now, that's not something you see every day.
Thanks, Tom Watson.
All this ingenuity and still 11 points behind in the polls. Actually, it's a very good crack - pity it's a complete fabrication. I agree the Labour body's still moving, but how certain are you that it's not just the corpse heaving with maggots ?
Posted by: Atropos | Saturday, 22 November 2008 at 09:53 PM
Another raising of Lazaras?
Posted by: Diogenes | Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 08:36 AM
Am I the only one to notice that the 'recent comments' on the left are about a week old?
Could it be that the Independent has just left New Labour's omega man, John Rentoul, in a dilapidated and boring website?
Aside from an article by Johann Hari saying 'go and read this article praising me which was written by Richard Dawkins, praising an article praising him', it seems like the indy has been dependent on the rentafool hotline for their input.
Posted by: gregor | Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 08:52 AM
Aye but how long will the voters continue to give it life support.
I'm not interested in funny, I can do funny, Russel Brand can purportedly do funny, what they seem eminently incapable of doing is running the country.
It's time to vote this bunch of losers out, not that I expect the next,likely conservative government to be any better or efficient. Well apart from continuing labour's (and their previous) policy of making the rich richer, poor, poorer and lining their own nests.
Posted by: flipped | Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 09:30 AM
Tom Watson? LOL
Posted by: sheepdip | Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 10:37 AM
You might be right. Rumour has it the Labour party has rediscovered a tiny morcel of something resembling socialism. The top rate of income tax could soon be raised to 45% for £150k+ earners. But before Tory posters get paranoid about the idea of old Soviet tanks advancing down Whitehall, this merely aligns is with only a handful of other advanced capitalist European democracies.
Posted by: Steve | Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 10:36 PM
After the next general election NuLiebour will not be in power (assuming that Gormless Clown and Harridan Harpy haven't completely abolished democracy by 2010), so there will be no tax hike for the rich.
Posted by: Keith Lonsdale | Monday, 24 November 2008 at 08:41 AM
I know John Rentoul really wants to believe that Labour is alive but I have to tell him that, as far as voters are concerned, it is as alive and well as the Norwegian Blue Parrot. It is dead, extinct, no more. It is, in fact, an ex-party. It has well and truly fallen off its perch. RIP.
Posted by: Patricia | Monday, 24 November 2008 at 01:53 PM
i dont believe they will last this next election. they really should go back to their roots and look after the comman man rather than city slickers
Posted by: garden bench | Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 01:54 PM