The left has suddenly remembered England

There’s quite a sensible piece by Eddie Bone in the New Statesman today, or very nearly.  The basic premise is that Labour should devote a large part of its time in opposition to rediscovering itself in England, and reconnecting with the English political base that it lost through its badly drafted and deliberate policies of devolution and imposed multi-culturalism.

All fine and dandy, a welcome return to democratic principles, you may think, but as several comments below the piece expose, eradicating the loathing for England that is hard-wired into Labour’s orthodox Fabian DNA will be no easy task.  This is what the ersatz reformers are up against….

An ‘English Parliament’ would not work; it would simply return a perpetual Conservtive majority and that is not good for democracy.

Whats needed is a radical shake up of the Constitution. Greater powers to Regional Govts rather like the ‘lender’ in Germany, and a Federal Structure for the UK, to recognnise the uniqueness of Scotland wales NI and the English Regions.

Which raises two points….

First, while this blog recognises that the Conservative Party as currently constituted doesn’t represent English, or British, interests at all, but those of an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels, what is “bad for democracy” about a perpetual majority for any party if that’s what the people decide?

And second, it’s not hard to see what the commenter is thinking here. This “radical shake-up of the Constitution” would emasculate England still further, consigning even the idea of an English nation to the history books and devolving what little control of our own national destiny we have left to the socialist empire that has been the dream of the homogenisers since Robert Schumann first proposed the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950.

In reality Bone’s proposal holds no hope for those of us who wish to redress the manifest imbalances created by Labour’s cynical gerrymandering, and nobody should be taken in by it.

They chose to despise England and everything she stands for, so now they’ve suddenly remembered we exist, now they need us, they don’t get to represent us.

Nothing wrong with Kerry McCarthy that a nice juicy steak wouldn’t fix

Labour’s Twitter Czar inserts size nine in cakehole again….

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The moon-barkers over at the LACS must love you, Kerry.

Bit more red meat in your diet, love. Get the old synapses snapping nicely.

For Cleveland, Ohio, read Hackney, Maryhill….

….Birmingham Ladywood, Peckham, Shoreditch, Manchester Central, Liverpool Riverside….

How do we save our most depressed inner city regions?

• By encouraging inward private sector investment and making it easier for companies to function, giving schools and teachers the flexibility to make their own decisions, and improving services and civic pride by introducing commercial rigour into moribund, union-dominated municipal assets?
• Or by burdening these areas with ever greater levels of regulation, taxation, red tape and bureaucracy, while allowing doctrine, political orthodoxy and self interest to trump common sense and results-driven public services?

Watch this great series of shorts from Drew Carey’s excellent Reason TV and decide for yourself….

No brainer? You would have thought so, wouldn’t you?

Official – Gordon Brown less important to “Company” readers than Robert Pattinson, clogs and blow jobs

Labour über groupie, Ellie Gellard, A.K.A. @BevaniteEllie, has been touting this in-depth interview with McRuin in Company Magazine for weeks.

Imagine her disappointment, then, when she checked the Company website this morning, only to find that her cozy chat with our nation’s Prime Minister….

….which is tailored to fit an audience of young women who need to be pulled back into politics.

….was considered by such an august journal’s editors to be less worthy of a front page spot than….

Robert Pattinson in pictures! See sexy shots from Remember Me!

Emma splits with Brit love.

10 of the best clogs!

And perhaps most riveting of all….

Read our Blow Job Masterclass!

Your best orgasm ever? Just follow our top 10 tips!

Pucker up, love

I’ve read the interview and frankly I couldn’t agree more.

Is it possible to agree with both Hitchens brothers?

Today being a bit of a slow news day election-wise, by the look of the front pages of the Telegraph….

….and The Groan….

I would like to draw your attention to two newly added quotations from the brothers Hitchens in my sidebar (down there, on the right somewhere).

I am putting together a more detailed discussion of this question, which I will post quite soon, but I’d be interested in receiving readers’ comments.

RIP Michael Foot

An erudite, decent man, a great parliamentarian and a staunch opponent of the European Union.