Ian Bone

Yes that’s the recipe for Labour victory – ditch your public sector workers core support and charge round the country patriotically appealing for growth ……..I can just see thousands pouring onto the streets now as the Ed Battlebus approaches wrapped in the union jack and urging more work for lower pay mixed in with some  Wilsonian hokum about white heat of technology written by a couple of oxford dons for an oxford leader! Hallelujah! I fear the two Dons are mere outriders for the imminent return from the wilderness of the loathsome Mandelson.

Gregg McClymont, the shadow pensions minister who is a former Oxford history don, writes in a new pamphlet that Labour will avoid the Tory trap only if it resists the temptation to appeal to its core supporters in the public services.

In a pamphlet for the Policy Network thinktank, established by Lord Mandelson, McClymont writes: “Labour can sidestep the electoral trap being sprung by the Conservatives by refusing to be driven back to its core support. A patriotic appeal to the nation to improve growth and living standards, not a simple defence of the public sector and public spending, is crucial to foiling Conservative attempts to render Labour the party of a sectional minority.”

The warning by McClymont is jointly written with fellow Oxford historian Ben Jackson. Ed Miliband is set to follow its ideas.

Days after threatening the Falklands the Argentine president is diagnosed with cancer!  Remember the poison plot against Castro and the plot to make his beard fall out! i think we should be told comrades!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned whether the US has developed a secret technology to give cancer to left-wing leaders in Latin America.

Treated for cancer this year, Mr Chavez was speaking a day after news that Argentina’s president had the disease.

Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and her predecessor Lula da Silva have also had cancer.

Mr Chavez said this was “very strange” but stressed that he was thinking aloud rather than making “rash accusations”.

But he said the instances of cancer among Latin American leaders were “difficult to explain using the law of probabilities”.

“Would it be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it?” Mr Chavez asked in a televised speech to soldiers at an army base.

I asked this question the other day – genuinely not having an answer myself – and the best answer anyone could come up with was Kevin McGuire at the daily mirror. Where are all your Jack Commons? Can anyone come up with socialist or even vaguely progressive writers on newspapers or magazines who are working class and have the Commons touch or at least don’t talk in leftie speak like Galloway…….the ones who can make their ideas common sense to our class. I think i know WHY there aren’t any – i just wondered if there were…..any……at all……………

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE SET TILLS RINGING AT HARRODS

Note the commentator cunningly turning Florence into a national treasure by describing her as ‘Our Florence’ as in ‘Our Gracie Fields’

The 25-year-old star of Florence And The Machine, who wore a Chanel sheer black gown and a Karl Lagerfeld wool cape, arrived at the store in London in a Harrods Routemaster bus.

Aw..c’mon……..don’t pick on the public school girl – without her it might have been NOAH AND THE WHALE…………AAAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!

Since the riots its been all incoming fire – total policing, jailings, plastic bullets etc etc- so how about cheering up with some outgoing in the new year. I intend to bring out the HOSPITALISED COPPER  book featuring photos of coppers injured in the August riots all over the country. I need your help to find the photos so can you send me links to any photos you know about. I also need some people to help out on the technical side of design, reproducing the photos and generally all the stuff you need to do before getting it to the printers. I intend the book to get out there to the thousands of rioters and cheer us all up by crashing into the best sellers, being banned from shops and driving middle England into apoplexy. For starters

Possibly the most useless present of all time brought to you by the most usless organisation of all time the Stop the war coalition. Celebrate ten years of utter failure akin to the old headline…’operation a success but man died’.  The  Rees/German axis of failure brings out it’s annual every year like the Beano and I can report that this exciting book -  Foreword by Old uncle  Benn – has crashed straight into the Amazon bestseller charts at……476,00o  T hat is 120,000 places behind Decade of Disorder which has been out for 20 years!

Your  forecast for next year’s annual is…..??????… ……..foreword by Sir Len McCluskey

The London Mayor elections elicit an overwhelming ennui verging onto torpor as we contemplate the same three amigos as last time. Even a heckle seems beyond worthwhile effort. However here is a modest proposal to liven it up. We concentrate on Boris but with his bumbling  affable toff  persona its hard to lay a finger on him. So we concentrate our efforts on BORIS THE ADULTERER – where he may be vulnerable to a back to basics approach. Shouted or planted questions in rooms or walkabouts ‘ where do you stand on adultery Boris?’ ‘if you cheat on your wife won’t you cheat on us?’ ‘When did you stop cheating on your wife Boris?‘ ‘WHERE’S PETRONELLA?’

 Petronella had first go on Boris’s Bendybus – but Marina’s still at the wheeler of the  routemaster! Or….not quite so funny……….Is this the woman you promised to leave your wife for after she had an abortion? Then  you didn’t. So we can trust you then BoriS?

  Of course as a one off this won’t work but repeatedly I think it would get under his skin. Cameron- and any other Tories coud be asked ‘Do you suport the adulterous Boris Johnson?’ It’s basically throwing the Daily mail Tory family values back in their faces. First meeting this year of the GLA should have CAST OUT THE ADULTERER BANNER AND CROWD OUTSIDE. I reckon it wouldnt take long for Boris to explode.

 

Those of us of a street insurrectionist tendency are having to have a hard re-think (Alarm conf.   Jan 7th }in the light of total policing, CCTV everywhere and draconian sentencing. While one terrain of struggle is temporarily stymied others open up and it may be worth exploring a number of new and old cultural ideas. ROCK AGAINST THE TORIES – do it yourself visceral anti-toryism coming to a town/village near you. Who does it – you do, get a few bands/djs/whatever together  stick on a gig. One of my memories of the year was rounding into trafalgar square and hearing thousands of youngsters shouting ‘tORY SCUM’ – you could hear it again from Bridlington to Tadcaster. Apart from the soon to be famous RATT logo (yes please someone) the only requirements are the chanting of TORY SCUM before you pile into the streets and that you do it all yourselves. It needs one gig to kick it off – anywhere – then spread like wildfire. Let me know when and where the first RATT event is and Ill’ stickdetails on here. Simples.

Cheers to Dave for logo!