Revolutionary Rants

New Labour has been holding its annual conference in Brighton this week, as you could not have failed to notice if you’ve had the telly on for even a few minutes!

It is a strange irony that Bush cannot save Americans from the horrors that followed hurricane Katrina; and perhaps an even greater irony that Britain can go to war to give freedom and democracy to a nation and then manhandle an 82 year old man - who has been a party member for some 50 years - from their conference for heckling Jack Straw with the word ‘nonsense’…

This has started a riot of coverage enquiring if we really do have freedom of speech in Britain.

Besides this, I can’t help but thinking there is another irony in this story: it is a Nixon-esque paranoia in the government that they feel that they need to behave in this bizarre way. In actual fact, just like Tricky Dicky, the main opposition are completely laughable and currently hurtling towards another Iain Duncan-Smith situation, the third party will never be much bigger than they are now because of the British system. Who can touch them? Even after Iraq their are our government so why make themselves look like the totalitarians they supposedly despise by punishing an old man for expressing an opinion?

Get real New Labour.