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The Labour Party Conference speech by Gordon Brown seems to be full of the usual NuLabour verbless sentences, wittering on about "the renewal of New Labour"

A few impressions:

Apparently, to prevent genocide, there is allegedly going to beome "action" on Darfur in the Sudan.

Presumably, this must mean military action, but since the UK armed forces are already at full stretch, this seems like a hollow promise.

There was only a vague promise on Terrorism to "do anything necessary" and to devote "any necessary reources" to the problem.

However, he used the phrase "win the battle of ideas, for hearts and minds".
This phraseology is redolant of the Vietnam war era motto of "if you have 'em by the short hairs, their hearts and minds will follow".

There was some vague allusion to a Written Constitution, without actually promising one as such.

He used an example of an employee wishing to set up their own business, something which has been made far more difficult than it should be, due to the extra taxation, bureaucratic red tape and utter incompetence, for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is directly responsible.

Gordon Brown mentioned "Identity Cards" and "Moving on beyond 28 days detention"

Why did Gordon Brown deliberately mix up anti-terrorism measures with anti-social behavior ones ?

How exactly does the National Identity Register and ID Cards scheme make any difference whatsoever to either Terrorism or Anti-Social Behavior ?

"I want a radical shift of power to the centre" - a Freudian slip ?

Parliament to vote on "going to war" ? N.B. no real "wars" are declared anymore, it is all "police actions" or "peacekeeping" etc, never formal declarations of war.

He made an allusion to reducing the amount of Patronage, which is something for which Tony Blair is infamous for.

Overall it was not a disasterous speech. It was full of one or two sentence ideas, without any detail, attempting to cover far too many topics.

As a result it was not paricularly inspiring for the audience outside of the Labour Party Conference.

More comments when we read the full text of the speech.

Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party Conference is scheduled to start at noon.

The content of this speech seems to have been leaked and trailed ahead of time to the usual mainstream media outlets with which the NuLabour spin doctors constantly try to manipulate, with plenty of sucess. Why cannot they just report and comment on it afterwards ?

Based on Gordon Brown's speech in February to the Royal United Services Institute, we are dreading whatever his cunning plan is to "protect" the country from international terrorism - presumably this will involve a further destruction of our civil liberties and freedoms, through even more Government snooping, and arbitrary repressive laws, without actually tackling the political causes of terrorism - i.e. continuing to do exactly what the terrorists are trying to achieve.

The Times has a report about the apparent sale of "access" to NuLabour Ministers and Policy Advisors at the forthcoming Labour Party conference, by the Bell Pottinger Public Affairs company ("specialising in political, government and public affairs consultancy services.")

Apparently such "packages" could about cost £ 5000 a time, depending on what other "consultancy services" the gullible corporate clients sign up for.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown rarely makes public speeches or writes newspaper articles or gives interviews where his non-financial policies are actually revealed.

Most of the UK political blogosphere has been distracted by the plethora of surrogate Brown / Blair commentry by proxy, and seems to have missed Friday's page 2 article in The Sun

This article is accompanied by an article "I'll be tough on terror" by George Pascoe-Watson the Political Editor of the Sun, whose front pahge story about the alleged Tony Blair 31st May / July 26th resignation dates, kicked off the current round of speculation.

Gordon Brown's spin doctors appear to be harking back to his dubious speech on terrorism, terrorist finanace, identity cards etc. given to the Royal United Services Institute back on February 13th 2006. This was billed at the time as the first of a series of major speeches, outside of the normal brief of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and presumably intended to give, at public expense, the impression that he is Prime Minister material.

Chancellor writes for The Sun September 08, 2006

Tony Blair's vahue statement today that the forthcoming TUC and labour party conferences would be his last in office, looks like an attempt to cling on to power for another 12 months.

The "within 12 months" statement does not add anythingh to the political kite floated a couple of days ago.

Will he manage this or will his colleagues force him out before the forthcoming May elections, in which they risk losing control of the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and many local councils ?

Given that Gordon Brown is at least as much to blame for NuLabour's destruction of civil liberties, growth of the surveillance state, high taxes and the routine use of media spin and manipulation, all the suppposed TBGB rivalry reported in the mainstream media seems rather false.

Who are all of these backbench Labour MPs who have been filling the TV news screens recently, ?

We have not noticed any worthwile contributions to important Parliamentary debates by the likes of Sir Peter Soulsby or Doug Henderson or Stephen Pound or Karen Buck etc.

Bloggerheads has an analysis of an online petiton attempt to rally support for Tony Blair - is this political astroturf ?

The Sun is claiming that Tony Blair plans to resign as leader of the Labour party on 31st May 2007,

There is then meant to be an 8 week leadership contest.

Tony Blair is supposed to resign as Prime Minister on 26th July 2007.

This will mean that he will have "achieved" over 10 years in office as Prime Minister.

Is this the end of NuLabour ?

Why should Gordon Brown become Prime Minister by default ?

We see Gordon Brown as even more of a control freak and micromanager than Tony Blair. He shares the blame for the "New Labour" regime.

We will of course be following the NuLabour leadership campaigning with interest.

Even though Gordon Brown is thought of as the leading candidate, there are even worse possibilities e.g. John Reid

We will also be watching the Special Advisors and the other NuLabour apparatchiki to see what they try to sneak through whilst their patronage lasts. Some of them, of course will try to ooze theiir way into positions of influence in the new , hoepfully temporary, NuLabour regime.

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