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mickyv
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: Double Whammy ! |
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Just imagine if this happens & Tony Benn as well as GG get elected !!
The Left Strike Back !
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faceless
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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micky, I embedded that link - to do it, you do this:
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It would be great to see if he could get elected again, but in Kensington? I'm not surprised there's a vacancy for a Labour candidate! |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I have mixed feelings about this. Tony Benn is GREAT, but he will be standing for "new=anti-Labour" |
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mickyv
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Faceless, I was wondering how it was done.
Yes it may well be mission impossible, but we’re talking Tony Benn here ! Plus favourable boundary changes, and that 12,000 majority may go the way of Oona King’s 10,000 majority !
Rest easy Mandy, it would really be the start of reclaiming back Labour from it’s current hideous Thatcherite incarnation of New Labour. |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| mickyv wrote: | | Rest easy Mandy, it would really be the start of reclaiming back Labour from it’s current hideous Thatcherite incarnation of New Labour. |
I have had similar discussions in the past with ex and current Labour activists : Is it best to fight it or join it and change it from the inside.
I wonder how many people joined the Nazi party thinking they could change it. |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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tony benn should fight as a respect candidate  how could he fight for the labour party as it is?
malcolm rifkind was against the war as well i think - he's one of the few tories i don't mind so much |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| luke wrote: | tony benn should fight as a respect candidate how could he fight for the labour party as it is?
malcolm rifkind was against the war as well i think - he's one of the few tories i don't mind so much |
Yep.. Tony Benn should be fighting for Respect. |
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luke
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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that would be some great publicity for the respect party, getting someone like benn on board
funny really, the possibility of one extra left mp, out of what, 400 or more - and we all get excited! |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| We get excited because the other 400 might as well be called tories, or maggie's army |
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mickyv
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yes it really would be a tremendous scoop for Respect if he stood for them, and it would almost certainly encourage others, but I can’t see him giving up the fight to try & return Labour back to what it stood for, for most of the 50 years he was a member of it.
It would be an interesting philosophical point that Mandy raised; whetever it’s better to fight from within for change or to oppose from outside. However being subject to constant political flux, with constantly changing circumstances, it a question that cannot be debated by anybody other than those who know the present state of the Labour Party inside out, and who have their fingers on the pulse for likely possible directions.
But yes, I like the idea of Tony Benn, Respect MP ! |
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