Brown Years Part Two

Radio 4:The second instalment of the radio documentary on the Brown Years. It is well worth 45 minutes of your time folks, in 2008 you really feel sorry for the staff at 10 Downing Street, seems it was a nightmare of a working environment, would have taken this blog Prozac to work there. How come politicians are more honest on the radio than TV.

Alastair Campbell on Ed Miliband

Alastair Campbell Blog: The Master of New Labour spin has stated the following on the attack on New Labour by Ed Miliband, “....I was asked if I didn’t feel hurt at his seeming desire to distance from New Labour. The answer is No..”. It has to be noted if you read the AC Diaries ( And you should! ) he does come across as old Labour on Education, also AC has not time for the Tories and is a tribal Labour supporter. Lets see what Tony Blair and the Lord Mandelson make of Miliband junior.

New Labour WRONG on Iraq - Ed Miliband

Telegraph: Reports that the new Labour Leader Ed Miliband has stated that former PM Tony Blair was wrong to go to war in Iraq. It will be interesting to see how the New Labour founders will react, will Blair, Campbell, the Dark Prince go on the warpath, after stabbing his brother in the back Ed Miliband has now gone after the masters of New Labour, curious to see their reaction.

Echo of JFK = NOT!

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: If you want to read a good and snappy Inaugural Address click here to read the speech that Mr Miliband copied , the Inaugural of President John F. Kennedy. To you future politicians don’t nick a famous quote from the Greats, we bloggers will find you out!

Miliband NO JFK

Let the message go out, a new generation has taken charge of Labour. Lets see if the artistic crowd start to make fun of Ed Miliband!

Ed Miliband’s 1st Speech as Leader

Iain Dale's Diary: The Conservative Blogger Iain Dale writes the following on Ed Milibands first speech as Labour Leader, “.. am not sure the Conservatives have an awful lot to worry about…The speech was ponderous, lacked pace and at times you could see the audience wondering when it was going to finish. ”. As stated in previous post Ed Miliband does not have that IT factor, when you see it you know, the BBC showed old footage of Tony Blair from 1994 and 2006 and he had it on both occasions. Recall seeing old footage of JFK from his Campaign for the Democratic nomination in 1960, even in black and white JFK had it, you cant fake IT, you can be as earnest as you want, someone should tell Ed Miliband he is no JFK, in the speech some sections Miliband had rewritten JFK Inaugural Passage! It was an okay speech, long, far to long, it’s a problem Bill Clinton had, he sometimes made a good speech and then he just went on and on, your not writing a Doctorate, should be short and snappy, lets see how Tony Blair reacts to the attack on the Iraq War. The Coalition should take Ed Miliband seriously, he did stab his own brother in the back, but the weakness for Miliband could be policy. Grade 5/10.

Woodward on Obama and Afghanistan

The Washington Post: Bob Woodward reports how the US National Security team got Obama to surge in Afghanistan, even if he didn’t like the plan. If Obama thinks Afghanistan is going to be as easy as Iraq the he is a fool, also he cant leave Afghanistan if there is a threat that Al Qaeda will return to power. Any Taliban/ Al Qaeda control of Afghanistan would be a threat to a nuclear armed Pakistan. Lets look at the political picture folks, the Obama health care reform has been a disaster for the Democrats, a majority of Americans still want to revoke the Act, the Obama economic plan has failed to get unemployment down from 9.6%, also you have 16% of voters who are in part time jobs or have given up on the job market. It a fact of politics that liberal Presidents cant be liberal on the domestic and international front, that is called Jimmy Carter. It only takes the Afghan Commander General Petraeus the hero of Iraq to walk out on Obama and run against him in 2012 for Obama to join the ranks for failed Presidents. The Taliban/ Al Qaeda are not fools, murdering thugs YES but not fools, they will see a weak President, a UK Coalition Government that wants out, thus what would you do if your intelligent terrorists, yes more body bags, why talk to the Kabul Government when you can wait Obama out, and Afghanistan can wait Obama out folks, they have done it to better leaders, starting with Alexander the Great. And Obama is NO Alexander or Nero even, and he was rock star in Rome. Its is interesting at the end of the article Obama gave the military thirty thousand troops, from his perspective he thinks that’s great, that he can control the War, good luck with that President, the military have way of getting what they want, Obama after the 2010 Mid Term Elections will be weak, the Republican Congress will support the military over Obama any day, the hold the purse strings, they can have investigations and hearings, Obama will have to play ball with the military and the Congress, that will be the price of losing the House. Obama has to get the fact that the real world is not a seminar. Also the US military play tougher that Chicago politics.