2011

Posted on January 09, 2011 at 06:44 PM

Happy New Year to all my constituents, and all readers and contributers to my blog.  Sorry for the delay in doing this, but there were "technical difficulties"!  One of my new year resolution is to blog early and often.  There is a lot to think about in politics.  We need debate and there is a fair amount of it about.  But what I would like to see more of and I hope to contribute as best as I can in, is one around the ideology that should underpin the policies of the next Government.  Much of the debate has focused on everything but that, all worthy debate, though a few red herrings thrown in, and won't put bread on the table for families and individuals, nor roses either.  We need a debate about the kind of society we want.  What areas of our lives does the market have no place?  How do we promote social solidarity? Labour must distinguish itself from other parties and politicians by insisting at every turn that this is the key political debate in 2011, and we have something different to say in that debate.

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