Worrying Socialistic Tendencies

Despite aligning itself mistakenly with the Liberal Democrats during the General Election, the Guardian is still a paper I respect enormously, however recently bloggers on their site have embarked on a remarkable trail of collective socialism.

I can recall two instance in particular that were drawn to my attention:

1) Encouraging People to retire early or at 65 so as to allow the younger generation to takeover the jobs being vacated. This is to say the younger generation are capable of or are competent enough to fill vacancies.

2) Reducing the strain on the housing market, by encouraging widows or the elderly to move out of their large houses to allow younger people to move in, who may have greater need.

These policies are worryingly collectivist, and hark back to a time of idealistic socialism, a period which rightly belongs in the annals of history, I am in favour of free speech, however maybe the best solution would be to allow some unnamed bloggers to be quietly moved on and allow a younger generation to take over.

David Miliband for Next Labour Leader?

After a brief sojourn for exam revision this blog is back online!

Diane Abbott after the capitulation of McDonnell is the obvious candidate for the left of the party, but less obviously Ed Miliband has also begun shifting tetchily to the left with his somewhat belated rejection of the Invasion of Iraq and implementation of a return to and an embracing of traditional values within the party. This immediately raises the point did David Miliband endorse Abbotts candidacy so as to split the left vote, against his own brother!? Somewhat extreme as this may appear, this was certainly a very un-Blair like move. Tom Clark from the Guardian commented that this position would never have existed under Blair who famously moved to stop “Red Ken”. What’s immediately clear in my eyes is that David Miliband is playing a long game strategy, that is most un Blairite like, whether it is through a sense of fairness, the necessity of having a women as a candidate or an overwhelming desire to be leader at all costs (whether that cost be his brother or not) I am not sure only this summer can tell.

As a post note its worth mentioning I think that no leader of the opposition elected immediately after an election defeat has ever made it to Prime Minister in the post war period, an ominous omen if ever I saw one!