And another thing…

“There aren’t enough good Labour-supporting blogs ”

Now thats a suprise, I wonder why.

How long till someone makes a crack about the ‘hard-earned’? (not I)

She can certainly write. Straight swap for Polly Toynbee?

Wrote this over at Dale’s place, here’s a slightly edited version for you:

“What is going on in the blogosphere at the moment? There’s an awful lot of left-wing bloggers giving up. It’s quite a shame as politics from next year onwards is going to be especially interesting for lefties everywhere. With the Labour Party facing potentially a massive defeat, there’s going to be a lot of soul-searching to do. The same kind of soul-searching the Tories had to do after being comprehensively thrashed in 1997.

I’ve never really read Sadie’s Tavern, but I don’t think I agree with her conclusion. There’s always room for humour [snip]. That’s partly how Guido Fawkes got so popular. That’s partly how Old Holborn gets his point across on his very effective blog. We all need to laugh a lot more [in the blogosphere].”

Labour dont do humour. with the odd exception like Tom, odd I mean not humour.

I have just had a look at Sadies blog. Come on i mean it just rambles on as so many Labour ones do. Too long and boring with little humour.

What does it feel like Tom to be out on your own, can you do some coaching in your party.

Like coach them back to Scotland, as their are no trains,like Kings Lynn. no trains today as there are NO drivers.

Every where you look its just disaster.

Seems to be an English situation really…
In Wales Plaid are taking the fight to Labour in the Valleys and although the Tories are doing well in mid-Wales they’re not going to be saying “the Blue Valleys” any time soon…

Here in Scotland, Labour are dying a death tree enough, but the Tories aren’t even a major party, they rank somewhere between the Lib-Thingies and the Green brigade. Here the left-of-central SNP rule things and with Labour being slightly less left/central than the SNP and the Lib Dems being whatever will get some votes today, left-wing is here to stay…
I am sorry to see another woman leaving the blogosphere. There are few enough women in politics as it is.

Will she be classed as one of the 1 million yes 1 million young unemployed.

Where is the news of the good poll for Labour in Scotland. I believe The Hereld is showing SNP decline.

Ok, I’ve cut the thread now, so it defo isn’t me pulling it, ok?

Quietzapple.

Please translate your last post for me. I am of that age you know.

Math Campbell.

“There are few enough women in politics as it is.”

Dont worry about this, Cameron has introduced Male discrimination on PPC selectiont so more of his lady friends will get in. They have no idea about the area they are going to serve. The local party would prefere to pick who they and their members want, but hey, we have no say on anything any more. I just hope no one asks why people do not bother to vote anymore.

@ Johnny (7.22) – Sadie isn’t a professional blogger (like Iain Dale), her day job is working for an MP (although I don’t think she’s ever said who he/she is). She does do long hours and it sounds as if her family have been telling her off for doing too much (she was recently ill with pneumonia).

It’s a great pity she’s closing the Tavern, I used to read it regularly and now wish I’d supported her via the comments, because she would get quite a lot of flak (although she does have her supporters as well). A lot of the time her readers just didn’t ‘get’ her sense of humour – for example she once wrote a very funny Round the Horne parody and which mostly fell on stony ground.

As you say Tom, it would be great if she was offered a newspaper column – she’s very entertaining to read and she talks a lot of sense.

It’s a pity also because the blogosphere is losing another female voice, when it’s already decisively male-dominated. (I get the impression on here that people assume I’m a bloke because women, for whatever reasons, are less likely to comment on blogs.)

Maybe, Tom, you could include your Twitter friend BevaniteEllie on your blogroll, as she’s got a very good blog. Her (sort of) mission statement is:
In a blogosphere dominated by right wing, angry men, I feel a certain responsibility to counteract or merely dilute their poison with a different viewpoint. Probably what you would call an ‘Old Labourite’ though people say I look like a Tory. I’m not.
http://stilettoed-socialist.blogspot.com/

@Johnny Too long and boring with little humour.

Now why am I not surprised in the least that you don’t find Sadie funny…

Sadie’s blog’s a sad loss but I wish her well and hopefully she’ll change her mind soon.

However infrequent her postings she is a big loss – the only left/labour blogger who ever laid a glove on Cameron and Boris and the like without being childish envious stupid or all 3 (yes I mean you Kevin Maguire) – just by being bloody hilarious.

Whats left? Just your drollery; and a load of hereditary/neverdoneanythingelse politicians and student newspaper types talking to each other in poor prose about silly policies that no-one will ever impliment.

This part of her leaving post I found interesting and revealing about what has befallen labour.

As well as this, I think it’s time I concentrated on my career. I worked hard at school, straight A student, went to University, and slogged unglamorously for a number of MPs for eight years. Yet I see stories of people fresh out of college who, by the apparent virtue of nepotism, are inserted into researcher jobs on higher salaries than me. If this sort of thing makes me, and remember I’ve been here all of my adult life, despondent about politics, God only knows what message it sends out to the rest of the population. As I’ve lamented on the Tavern before, why-o-why did I lack the foresight to be born to senior courtiers? I could be living the sweet life by now!

“MPs appoint researchers who aren’t me shock horror!”

We all live with our disappointments.

Sadie’s judgement that self deprecating blogs will not be de rigeur next year looks pretty wide of the mark, whatever happens.

Having sloped off, perhaps she will flounce back.

That’s not what she wrote two cans.

But why let facts deter you from your attacks on anyone who doesn’t laud the labour government.

I admire the self-discipline and organisational skills of amateur bloggers. To me, running a blog sounds like a tyranny with the obligation to blog frequently to hold your readership.

(BTW Nicky, I have the impression there’s about four of us (females) who comment on Tom’s blog but the anonymity of commenters is intriguing – perhaps Quietzapple is a 65 year old grandmother and Hell’s Angel and not the person I imagine from his(!) posts).

My interpretation of Sadie’s last post is close to the truth, but Chris’ Wills realises that presumably.

If Sadie believes all the stories about salaries and reasons for preferment she hears in the Westminster Village then I suspect she is rather down at the mo . . Buggins turn rules more nearly than nepotism, and merit has her turn . . .

There you go.

We are not a grandmother, nor quite 65. Oh, and my amazing dancing, posting & blogging mice are ficti…..

wishing Sadie all the best,

sometimes my song “Gordon Brown be my Angel” is interpreted as pro- Gordon Brown or pro-Labour. It is meant to be first and foremost a legal song, which is also highly relevant to sociology, neuroscience etc due to the story behind it…

“Gordon Brown be my Angel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEWhEuhRoo

Brahms Lullaby

Gordon Brown! Gordon Brown!
Will you be my angel?
Guardian angel is what I meant
Will you rescue my soul?

For you are in charge
Of these people I wrote to
Stephen Timms, Jack Straw
Let me place my trust in you

Gordon Brown! MP’s!
Let me sing out loud
For what you do, for my country
For my reproductive system

You right wrongs! My right’s been wronged
I am desperate for you
Not just you! There’s Jon Herring
I’m a violated woman

Gordon Brown, help me sleep!
Help me sleep like a baby
Will my babies ever come out?
Maternal desires!
I lost my womanhood
In a sinister curse
Gordon Brown! Bring it back!
You are perfect for that!