Jun 24 2007

Brown Crowned Labour Leader

Category: In The Media,Personal — ChrisM @ 9:48 pm

Flicking around the news channels, I managed to catch some of the conference where Gordon Brown was officially put in place as the Labour Party leader over in Britain. This Wednesday will see him become the Prime Minister, but for now, it is just the political party that he rules.
It was interesting to hear him talk, and he appears to be more closely leaning to the old ‘real’ Labour way of thinking than Tony Blair’s New Labour of the past decade. Many people are entirely cynical when it comes to politicians, but I have to admit, I do still have a small hope that the direction this government will take will be for the better…

Gordon Brown 24th July 2007

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Jun 21 2007

Bye Bye Blair

Category: Personal — ChrisM @ 11:45 pm

Just in case you do not read a newspaper, or ever browse the news web sites out there, Tony Blair will be quitting as Prime Minister of Britain next week. I am not going to start droning on about his Tory-era promise to Gordon Brown re. time scales of this change over, but I am interested to hear that Tony’s political master partner, George Bush, is recommending Tony as a peace envoy for the Middle East.
If anything, I believe that Bush Jr.’s recommendation will do little for Tony’s credibility in the afflicted area, but then again, as James Wolfensohn quit the job more than a year ago, perhaps the head honchos in the area are looking for any sort of leadership?

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May 17 2007

No Great Surprise…

Category: In The Media,Personal — ChrisM @ 6:15 pm

It appears that Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister, without the need for any real (fresh) campaigning on his behalf.
I think it is time for Tony Blair to move aside, for one, his lap dog status to George Duuuuh-bya Bush in the left-wing press is doing the labour party itself no good. I’ve heard some younger friends moan about the Labour party, and where Britain currently resides in world estimation, but from a selfish point of view, I’m certainly glad that the Tories don’t have cat in hells chance of actually winning the next election or two. Thatcher taught me to be a ruthless profiteer at school, always on the look out for money making schemes. This helped my bank balance, but certainly didn’t improve my way of thinking and approaching the world. Given a choice between another ten or even fifteen years of Blair PMing, even with the sucking up to multi-national corporates so alien to old-school, ‘proper’ labour supporters, and having another Conservative led government, I’d take any flavour of red…
Anyway, check out the article here for more info on Browns virtually assured un-opposed coronation as next PM.

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Apr 22 2007

Is It Just Me or Is Everything $hit?

Category: Books — ChrisM @ 2:58 am

Is It Just Me or Is Everything $hit? – Alan McArthur and Steve Lowe

Obviously the original title uses the correct S, rather than a dollar sign, but I don’t want this blog to suddenly start flagging up any profanity filters for people reading this at their workplace.
However, the book itself doesn’t shy away from colourful words, so I wouldn’t really recommend it as a bed time story book :>
Again, this is another book that pretty much does what it says on the tin. However, unlike some books which take a similar approach, this one has a political theme to it, and covers topics a little more engaging that the normal ‘Caravans are crap’ you’ll sometimes find.
Che Guevara merchandise gets a mention (one of my own pet peeves) as does Tony Blair’s transformation from Labour pin up boy/saviour from all things Tory into a facsimile of the very ‘leaders’ that were rejected back in ’97.
If you manage to find this book in a bargain bin somewhere, I’d certainly recommend it straight away, however, at full price, you may find yourself a little disappointed, as the book does sometimes feel as though the authors struggled to write enough without stretching for some of their moans.

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