New Labour’s friends and enemies
Example 1: It is by talking to people with varying views that we find out what the range of opinions is. It doesn’t mean we agree with what they are saying.
A government spokesman defending past consultations with Mr Armad Thomson, from the Association of Muslim Lawyers, following the uncovering of his true opinions by the Telegraph.
Example 2: Britain’s political police have impounded the entire lorry load of the September issue of the party newspaper “Voice of Freedom”.
As the events of the day unfold they reveal a shocking abuse of power, disregard for the law of the land and the extent to which the British government is desperate to stem the advances the BNP is making in communities the length and breadth of the country ...
The 60,000 copies may be lying in a compound but the stories will be available for the entire global Internet population to read. Such a decision can only pile on the embarrassment to the New Labour regime. Any journalist worth his or her self esteem should read these articles in VoF and ask themselves “is this it?” Is that what Blair and Co are trying to suppress?
Yes, “this is it”, it is exactly what the Blair regime wants to suppress.
The news, as reported on the BNP’s website, that New Labour doesn’t want you and me to come into contact with the opinions of the patriotic right.
You can, however, “do a New Labour” and “consult” all 16 pages of the VoF on that link.
Posted by John S Bolton on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:30 | #
This may show how vulnerable the moderate left feels; that there could be an erosion of their working class base. Nationalism can transcend many divides; but disloyalism ultimately has only a tiny and embarassing constituency.