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item0046D 766, 767 19 July 200319 July: An old Labour friend (and fellow City region enthusiast ) Colin Farlow writes from Exeter -
"Brownites!
Roger
Events of the past two days make it even
more vital that Blair goes. There is no way he will be able to recover
from the David Kelly catastrophe (nor does he deserve to) and if he
clings on he will take Labour down with him.
Even if he goes (and I agree with the thrust
of Hugo Young's article and comments made separately by others) it will
be difficult for a successor to regain what has been lost.
If it was the Tories, the
men in suits would
even now be assembling to tell their man his time was up. Who in Labour
has the sense and the guts to do it?
Kind regards
Colin ========================== Colin "The Labour Party is a crusade or it is nothing" - andthe tragedy is that Blair has knocked the crusading stuffing out of the Party. Any new leader must have the potential to re-construct a crusade - if the troops are to be re-inspired and the 2005 Election won. The present "Triesman Party" is an arid organisational shell, devoid of political substance, and in no shape to challenge Blair's Cabinet dominance and parliamentary majority. Blair nihilism would be replaced by Old Left posturing, without connection with the modern world. He will not be "removed" by the Party - his electoral charisma, even when severely wounded, outshines that of all alternatives. That means that Blair will go only by resignation - if his self-confidence collapses from within, as Harold Wilson's collapsed in Spring 1976. I consider that David Kelly's death makes that more likely (though I believe that, as between Campbell and the BBC, the BBC is the more guilty party...). Subject to one caveat, Gordon Brown would be more likely to win the 2005 Election than Peter Hain. But my caveat is crucial - "How hungry is Gordon Brown for the job?" He now knows all there is to know about the working of Government at the highest level, and his curiosity must be sated. The personal chemistry will not be the same as in 1995, at the Granita. What drive does he have left? For if there were even a flickering eyelid of doubt about that, Peter Hain would be the better bet. Colin - good to hear from you again Roger
21 July 2003 Abdroid Evasion
"Abdroid" is a word derived from the sci-fi term droid (itself short for android) used to describe mindless automatons designed to implement human will. An abdroid is merely an abstract droid - a company, trade union, government agency or department - any entity enjoying, under statute law, separate legal identity. This week, the UK Treasury was stung by its incompetent manipulation of abdroids - and lost hundreds of £'000m in tax to a raft of European abdroids. The Treasury had been found guilty of discriminating against "European" abdroids, when it changed the law of Advance CorporationThis week Mr Justice Park, sitting in the London High Court, held that the Treasury ruling constituted unlawful discrimination against the foreign abdroids, distorting trade within the EU, and ordered their tax liability to be recalculated. The bill for the Treasury, in moneys to be paid back to foreign parent abdroids, will be enormous.
Do you inhabit the abdroid world? Do you have any horror stories to tell? Drop me a line
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But someone
will have to try. I am not sure Brown has got what it takes.
And most of the
others are too tainted by association. Maybe Hain could do it, I'm not
sure. But there can never have been an incoming Prime Minister who was
blessed, as Blair was, with such a fund of goodwill, only to squander it
so recklessly and arrogantly. He and his associates simply never
understood what 1997 was all about. Hubris and nemesis, big-time.
Abdroids
are my personal, private obsession. I am fascinated by the arcane
world of artificial personality, and the consequences of humankind's belief in
its reality. It must surely rank as a pervasive religion of our times... Lawyers
attribute the same solidity to an abdroid
(a legal person) as to you and to me.