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2020 vision
By Huw Leslie | February 28, 2007
Elements of the Labour Party (led by Alan Milburn, former Health Secretary and staunch Blairite and Charles Clarke, former Home Secretary) have set up a website designed to come up with new ideas for the party’s future called The 2020 Vision. It’s going to be all new media, with blogs and comments included. At the moment there’s not much content on there, but some of the commenters’ names on the page explaining what 2020 Vision is all about cracked me up.
It’s the first time I’ve seen peers of the realm commenting on a blog (and using their titles). I expect its new to them too, and it really is quite bizarre. Other famous commenters, just on the first page, include Hilary Armstrong MP, social exclusion minister, Peter Mandelson, our staunch Blairite EU commissioner for Trade and Ann Clwyd MP (TB’s human rights or Iraq envoy methinks - could be wrong though).
Also weird is the juxtoposition of comments like this:
The Labour Party has never been scared of debate. We are in an unprecedented third term and I welcome the opportunity to ensure we are the party with the ideas, the vision and the values to face the opportunities and challenges ahead.
from Hillary Armstrong to this eloquent, insightful view of the problems facing society:
It is about time you built more prisons and got the scum of our streets, people are scared to walk them at night, shopkeepers abused, spat at, lives made a misery.
If people commit crime they should all get there benefits took off them why should they get free treatment on the NHS, i have been paying my NI since i was 16 years old nearly half of my life and i am sickened by it all.
Who are the Mugs,,,, Us the hard working of the population,,, its ok for ministers you are on a pretty wage.
I for one have lost confidence in the Labour party and it will take more than a few new ideas to help fix that.
Note the exceptional use of grammar.
I guess this is just a result of new media, putting everyone taking part in the conversation in the same boat.
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