Comments on: The Problem With The Labour Rebels… http://archive.sharpesopinion.co.uk/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-labour-rebels/ The Weblog of Stuart Sharpe Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:29:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stu http://archive.sharpesopinion.co.uk/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-labour-rebels/#comment-3948 Stu Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:16:07 +0000 http://sharpesopinion.co.uk/?p=4017#comment-3948 <em>I suspect there’s a fair few in the Tory party who would nod enthusiastically when they read that</em> Yep, I had that in the back of my mind while I was writing it. But it's a problem for Governments who've been around for a decade, not for fresh new ones. First term Governments are hoping to make enough stuff better quickly enough to get themselves a second term. That's where the real opportunities are. Three consecutive elections is too many for any party without some kind of radical change - the kind of radical change that only happens in opposition. Tizzy, it's back up now ;-) I suspect there’s a fair few in the Tory party who would nod enthusiastically when they read that

Yep, I had that in the back of my mind while I was writing it. But it’s a problem for Governments who’ve been around for a decade, not for fresh new ones. First term Governments are hoping to make enough stuff better quickly enough to get themselves a second term. That’s where the real opportunities are. Three consecutive elections is too many for any party without some kind of radical change – the kind of radical change that only happens in opposition.

Tizzy, it’s back up now ;-)

]]> By: JuliaM http://archive.sharpesopinion.co.uk/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-labour-rebels/#comment-3946 JuliaM Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:22:11 +0000 http://sharpesopinion.co.uk/?p=4017#comment-3946 <i>"Doesn’t that just sum up the problem with New Labour? That the only thing that brings them together is the determination to win, and retain, power."</i> Problem is, I suspect there's a fair few in the Tory party who would nod enthusiastically when they read that... <i>"Can’t access labour.org.uk – have they all been gagged?"</i> Gordo's probably put a new Minister in charge of it, without checking they have any IT skills... “Doesn’t that just sum up the problem with New Labour? That the only thing that brings them together is the determination to win, and retain, power.”

Problem is, I suspect there’s a fair few in the Tory party who would nod enthusiastically when they read that…

“Can’t access labour.org.uk – have they all been gagged?”

Gordo’s probably put a new Minister in charge of it, without checking they have any IT skills…

]]> By: ladytizzy http://archive.sharpesopinion.co.uk/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-labour-rebels/#comment-3942 ladytizzy Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:39:09 +0000 http://sharpesopinion.co.uk/?p=4017#comment-3942 Can't access labour.org.uk - have they all been gagged? Can’t access labour.org.uk – have they all been gagged?

]]> By: patently http://archive.sharpesopinion.co.uk/2009/06/the-problem-with-the-labour-rebels/#comment-3939 patently Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:49:04 +0000 http://sharpesopinion.co.uk/?p=4017#comment-3939 <i>One wonders, if the Labour Party weren’t on the path to lose a General Election, whether they would have even noticed these things.</i> For about a decade, they weren't, and they didn't. One wonders, if the Labour Party weren’t on the path to lose a General Election, whether they would have even noticed these things.

For about a decade, they weren’t, and they didn’t.

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