I must express my sheer anger and disappointment with the recent 're-branding progress' the Labour Party is undergoing - specifically in the wrong hands of Peter Hain.
Again, the top brass of the party are conducting their 'listening exercises', but sadly not listening. 'Fresh Ideas', 'Refounding Labour'; call it what you will. Nothing is changing. We sold out our core vote, and we must try hard to reach them again. That is the working people of Britain, who want to pay tax fairly to create a fair and equal society, where every one has an equal start in life.
Ed Miliband can throw about cliched phrases like the 'squeezed-middle' but it just doesn't hold any weight. The squeezed middle? What about the squeezed poor? The people who are having their benefits slashed and are being savagely attacked by this ruthless Tory government?
I'm not proposing that I have all the answers, but we need to be honest with ourselves. The top tier of the party do not represent the core membership, and that is a severe problem. We are meant to be a Democratic Socialist party, yet we have a Social Democrat leader, who wants to appeal to the 'working-class Conservatives' out there.
Ed, we don't need Blue Labour. We've had that for the last 14 years. If you want to listen and learn, open your ears.
