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[joe90]

All the best at the hustings Osama!

This is the first time in ages I've been excited about an election - especially as there is two, both using Proportional Representation, and one for the first time ever (I think I've got that all right!).

I just thought you may be interested in this recent BBC Radio 4 documentary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/6510743.stm>Bravehearts and Bankers
'Analysis'
04 Apr 2007
As part of Radio 4's 1707 season, Richard Weight asks what role the British Empire played in forging the Union, and whether it's significant that Scottish nationalism revived in the 1960s when the Empire was crumbling.

It's quite superficial with all the usual BBC cliches and omissions, however it does specifically mention 'Pakistani-Scots' and their almost unanimous turning to the SNP in 2001-2.

This highlights something you said a while back about New Labour abandoning any hope of influencing Mulsim voters, over the attack on Iraq.

Having abandoned any hope of getting Muslim folk to vote for them, New Labour still managed to fiind uses for disenchanted Muslims - by launching a race-hate campaign against Mulsims and using them as scapegoats to hide their own war crimes behind!

as I say,
all the best

ps
I heard David Cameron on the radio the other day, standing up for the interests of the poor in Britian - classic British Parliamentary politics these days. Both parties have now adopted each others traditional values
ie New Labour are for tax cuts and the Tories are the champions of the poor!

Mind you, I don't even know the actual name of 'New Labour' - apparantly they call themselves 'Scottish Labour' when in Scotland, complete with an English Red Rose as their emblem, how appropriate. In Britain, of which Scotland is still a part, they're called 'New Labour' - but what are they called in England, I wonder or Northern Ireland?
And they are commonly refered to as 'Labour' when they aren't. The old Labour Party doesn't exist anymore. It was eaten away from the inside by the cancer of Murdoch's new class of state-corporate Tories. As Tony Benn said, New Labour is a completely different organisation from the old Labour Party - the two have nothing in common.

If it fools people into voting for them though, then why not keep up the pretence? After all, names, policies or traditional values don't matter anymore. Westminister is just a one-party dictatorship and everything else is just marketing and advertising campaigns and window-dressing.

[joe90]

I sometimes wonder what it is The Scottish Labour Party-New Labour Party (whatever), have to do before the Luddites in the Scottish Unions finally wake up!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6559955.stm>Unions back Labour by single vote
BBC
16 Apr 2007

all the best!