Comments on: Voters, know your place http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: guy nicholls http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-26107 guy nicholls Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:09:30 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-26107 Further to previous coverage of Northampton's MPs-Tony Clarke lost the Northampton South seat to local millionaire businessman:Brian Binley. This guy's business deals especially since becoming MP in 2005 worry me.He is very much the local man but once elected developed a strange interest in supporting opposition parties in .... Iran!What's that all about? When on Tuesday I saw a picture of Binley with none other than former Israeli President(now opposition Likud leader)Benjamin Netanyahu in the local paper the smell of singed sewer rat became yet more noxious! Why....well among any number of groups who work with the Iranian opposition are Mossad,the CIA who use bases in Azarbaijan and the mojaheddin-e Khalk fighters to carry out surveillance on Iran.All are engaged in propagandizing and inflating the Iranian threat to the US.The Likud right wing with Bibi Netanyahu at the helm,along with their neo-con allies in the US are promoting the danger of crescent nations ( Iranian-sponsored Lebanese Hezbollah,Syria and Palestine ) as a shared security threat for US and Israel. Like Iraq,Iran poses no threat to the US only Israel when nuclearization is finally achieved by Teheran. Worryingly the local paper reported the claim that Iran was the major threat to security in the Middle East.I have written to the editor advising that Binley would do well to choose his friends more carefully in future.To compound the monstrous folly of the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by starting a third one in Iran would have global consequences Binley could not even begin to understand. . Further to previous coverage of Northampton’s MPs-Tony Clarke lost the Northampton South seat to local millionaire businessman:Brian Binley.
This guy’s business deals especially since becoming MP in 2005 worry me.He is very much the local man but once elected developed a strange interest in supporting opposition parties in ….
Iran!What’s that all about?
When on Tuesday I saw a picture of Binley with none other than former Israeli President(now opposition Likud leader)Benjamin Netanyahu in the local paper the smell of singed sewer rat became yet more noxious!
Why….well among any number of groups who work with the Iranian opposition are Mossad,the CIA who use bases in Azarbaijan and the mojaheddin-e Khalk fighters to carry out surveillance on Iran.All are engaged in propagandizing and inflating the Iranian threat to the US.The Likud right wing with Bibi Netanyahu at the helm,along with their neo-con allies in the US are promoting the danger of crescent nations ( Iranian-sponsored Lebanese Hezbollah,Syria and Palestine ) as a shared security threat for US and Israel.
Like Iraq,Iran poses no threat to the US only Israel when nuclearization is finally achieved by Teheran.
Worryingly the local paper reported the claim that Iran was the major threat to security in the Middle East.I have written to the editor advising that Binley would do well to choose his friends more carefully in future.To compound the monstrous folly of the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by starting a third one in Iran would have global consequences Binley could not even begin to understand.

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]]> By: guy nicholls http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-25615 guy nicholls Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:33:15 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-25615 Incidently how the hell did Blears get the Orwellian title Minister of(Dis)Information?Don't ask unless there's a New Labour casting couch for daleks! More on Northampton.In Northampton South at the last election anti-war Labour MP,Tony Clarke lost his seat while aforementioned Lobby-fodder Northampton North MP Sally Keeble managed to keep her seat albeit with a reduced majority.Funny town:Northampton.Could've been something to do with the fact that Clarke was reported in the local press to have an Inter City firm West Ham tattoo from his London past.Given he was chair of the Northampton Town Supporters Club,and sat on the board at the time this was a regarded a an horrendous breach of loyalty. Clarke was duly dumped and the seat returned to Tory hands. So should anyone be aware of any tattoos on the Blears dalek we don't know about now is the time to declare them! Incidently how the hell did Blears get the Orwellian title Minister of(Dis)Information?Don’t ask unless there’s a New Labour casting couch for daleks!

More on Northampton.In Northampton South at the last election anti-war Labour MP,Tony Clarke lost his seat while aforementioned Lobby-fodder Northampton North MP Sally Keeble managed to keep her seat albeit with a reduced majority.Funny town:Northampton.Could’ve been something to do with the fact that Clarke was reported in the local press to have an Inter City firm West Ham tattoo from his London past.Given he was chair of the Northampton Town Supporters Club,and sat on the board at the time this was a regarded a an horrendous breach of loyalty.

Clarke was duly dumped and the seat returned to Tory hands.

So should anyone be aware of any tattoos on the Blears dalek we don’t know about now is the time to declare them!

]]> By: guy nicholls http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-25614 guy nicholls Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:49:07 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-25614 Great to see hilarious Hazel as Yoghurt topic.She absolutely cracks me up.This ginger dalek is a Blairite clone desperate to save her seat.You must have seen her on the picket line outside her local hospital protesting her own government's health cuts.Her seat is one of the most marginal in the North West...coincidentally. There's an equally laughable clip of her doing,or in her case trying to do,a Michael Howard duck the question over and over again trick with Paxman on Newsnight.It's side-splitting! Watching the likes of Blears and co. grovelling to keep their seats at the next election will definitely be worth waiting for! I second your support for Respect the only vaguely socialist alternative now available.I only wish they'd put a candidate in Northampton North where I'm based.I'd dearly love to see Sally Keeble(lobby fodder for Blair's Iraq war vote four years ago get her marching orders.Door-stepped by Stop the War demonstrators outside Northampton Labour Club on the night war began,Keeble told an Iraqi worried about his family back home,that she had no difficulty sleeping while Baghdad burned. Great to see hilarious Hazel as Yoghurt topic.She absolutely cracks me up.This ginger dalek is a Blairite clone desperate to save her seat.You must have seen her on the picket line outside her local hospital protesting her own government’s health cuts.Her seat is one of the most marginal in the North West…coincidentally.

There’s an equally laughable clip of her doing,or in her case trying to do,a Michael Howard duck the question over and over again trick with Paxman on Newsnight.It’s side-splitting!

Watching the likes of Blears and co. grovelling to keep their seats at the next election will definitely be worth waiting for!

I second your support for Respect the only vaguely socialist alternative now available.I only wish they’d put a candidate in Northampton North where I’m based.I’d dearly love to see Sally Keeble(lobby fodder for Blair’s Iraq war vote four years ago get her marching orders.Door-stepped by Stop the War demonstrators outside Northampton Labour Club on the night war began,Keeble told an Iraqi worried about his family back home,that she had no difficulty sleeping while Baghdad
burned.

]]> By: Luca's Ade http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-25583 Luca's Ade Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:49:34 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-25583 I had a taste of this just prior to the last GE. My MP, whom I'd never heard from before sent out a letter asking for support in making my village an Anti Social Behaviour Action Area. He had a smallish majority which as it turned out was cut to about 1000 at that election. Anyway I wrote back to him informing him about collective punishment, and that he was obviously just trying to curry favour because his leader was a liar and he was scared of losing his seat. When he wrote back he didn't seem too happy with me, lol. of course the election came and went, he just kept his seat and we never heard any more of his tough on crime policies. If that's how they are going to try and win the vote of the marginals, they can forget it. I had a taste of this just prior to the last GE. My MP, whom I’d never heard from before sent out a letter asking for support in making my village an Anti Social Behaviour Action Area. He had a smallish majority which as it turned out was cut to about 1000 at that election. Anyway I wrote back to him informing him about collective punishment, and that he was obviously just trying to curry favour because his leader was a liar and he was scared of losing his seat. When he wrote back he didn’t seem too happy with me, lol. of course the election came and went, he just kept his seat and we never heard any more of his tough on crime policies. If that’s how they are going to try and win the vote of the marginals, they can forget it.

]]> By: AMX http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-25581 AMX Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:21:58 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-25581 Pitty how they can't motivate the general public. Pitty how they can’t motivate the general public.

]]> By: redpesto http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/comment-page-1/#comment-25578 redpesto Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:36:23 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2007/01/22/voters-know-your-place/#comment-25578 This is the same strategy Rammell and Byrne were banging on about <a HREF="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/liam_byrne_and_bill_rammell/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, which not only ignores voters in 'safe' seats, but all the seats Labour <i>lost</i> by an equally narrow margin. It also ignores the actual demographic/electoral composition of those seats: they're not 'marginal' because of voting intentions, they're marginal because of the damage done to Labour's vote by Blair and Iraq. Still, if they're going to persist with the strategy, they've no-one to blame but themselves when it comes unstuck. This is the same strategy Rammell and Byrne were banging on about here, which not only ignores voters in ’safe’ seats, but all the seats Labour lost by an equally narrow margin. It also ignores the actual demographic/electoral composition of those seats: they’re not ‘marginal’ because of voting intentions, they’re marginal because of the damage done to Labour’s vote by Blair and Iraq. Still, if they’re going to persist with the strategy, they’ve no-one to blame but themselves when it comes unstuck.

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