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Labour Leadership and Baron Meacherhausen Sophistry ... in The Sunday Telegraph ...
Well, well, well. Here we go again. Michael Meacher is coming over all Trotty again. In the Telegraph. For starters:... society was more unequal now than at any time since the 1930s. A new class, the "mega rich", had been given unprecedented power and access to government by Mr Blair, who was himself obsessed by money, he claimed.
Which is pretty rich coming from a hugely wealthy man. Who has a dozen rented-out houses at his command, on top of a humungous Parliamentary Pension. This Michael is NOT the work of a prudent socialist. It is the work of someone who is himself "obsessed with money". There's more:Mr Meacher said that he was close to securing the 44 names necessary to mount a challenge to the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, the overwhelming favourite to succeed Mr Blair. "I'm getting very close to it," Mr Meacher said. "I have 25, [John] McDonnell has 15 and the overwhelming majority of those will switch to me if John realises that he can't make it and drops out."
No-one but no-one believes these fantasy figures from Meach. But what about policy?The Prime Minister, said Mr Meacher, had also ridden roughshod over Parliament. "It would be hard to say this is a genuine parliamentary democracy. The framework is there but the decisions are fixed at private meetings between the Prime Minister and the power brokers in society, the financial houses, industry and the media."
And of course more's the pity Michael Meacher voted with the Prime Minister on all of these occasions. Until he was sacked. Votes not through principle we must assume, but through being "obsessed with money" and power and wanting the six-figure rather than the five-figure wages and the resulting pension pot. There's yet more:He (Meacher) said a "conscience of the nation" watchdog should be created to look at all decisions of national importance and prevent abuses of power.
Perhaps "Honest Mike" could be that conscience? Baron Meacher von Munchausen? Conscience of the Nation? Let's finish off by giving a line to the Tories, one or two of whom may read The Sunday Telegraph ...He claimed Mr Brown blocked a decision he took as environment minister to force the top 1,000 companies to publish their greenhouse gas emissions. "So if you ask if he's green - anything but. His feel for this agenda is very weak."
It is getting harder and harder to hold onto being a critical friend of this maverick-of-the-moment.
Meanwhile back down to earth in The Observer as David Miliband settles for the compere's role.
7 comments:
Does Meacher look at everything through his own life story? (Forgetting all his unearned wealth, his voting record, and his barminess). How long ago did he get thwarted on something by Brown? Three, four, five years? How dare he slag off Brown for that as it it were yesterday? This is not the way to have a conversation with Brown and have him pay more attention to the left.
25 Votes is an absolutely ridiculous lie. Does he not have any conscience at all? Deluded.
Fair point MIADF.
Meacher will never admit how badly he's doing. He is determined to screw things up. Ego first. The bastard will continue to pretend he has more votes than John and expect hime to cave. McDonnell must expose this. Let Meacher name five of his MPs and have them confirm his announcement. Then another five. he does not have 25.
I think Alan Simpson and Kelvin Hopkins should be publicly challenged to name Meacher's supporters. This is now beyond a joke .If he is lying ( and I'm pretty sure he is) then he has to be exposed. The time for niceties has passed.I can't wait to see him at Party Conference... on second thought, no. Wouid probably end up getting arrested.....
Presumably Alan and Kelvin are McDonnell double agents? Cos they cannot seriously be backing MM.
It IS getting beyond a joke now. I have been desperately trying to keep everybody chums and encourage a comradely discussion about this, but...
AAARGH! It's madness!
Some people have just been taking Michael's figures at face value. The fact that they're changing pretty regularly now (he's had 55 at one time, I think!) might start to bring it home to one or two people that these figures can't be true, and that maybe the Guardian estimate is a little nearer the mark.
Michael Meacher claims '200 nominations in the bag'
Michael Meacher promised one of the biggest upsets in modern British political history when he claimed to have received the nominations of around 200 MPs.
"I can confirm that at least 200 MPs at last count have agreed to nominate me," he told reporters. "John McDonnell, on the other hand, has minus 5 nominations. If that."
If confirmed, the claims will spark panic among Gordon Brown's leadership team who had themselves claimed to have over 200 Labour MPs signed up this week. It will also spell disaster for John McDonnell's campaign.
However, doubts were raised over the claims when it became clear that Meacher was unaware that only members of the Parliamentary Labour Party were able to nominate candidates for the Labour leadership.
One journalist who was shown the list claimed that 197 of the names were members of the Opposition. Among them were David Cameron, George Osborne, Oliver Letwin and Kenneth Clarke.
Interviewed at one of his country retreats, Meacher struck back at suggestions that Tory MPs were not eligible to nominate candidates for Labour leader.
"Believe me, I've spent months reading over the rules and nowhere does it say that Tory MPs cannot nominate me," he responded. "It would be flagrantly undemocratic to prevent members of other parties from nominating candidates. That so many Tory MPs wish to nominate me simply reflects how much respect there is for my unparallelled experience."
"I'm always seen myself as a cross between Winston Churchill and Clement Atlee," he added.
He also repeated controversial claims that the CIA could have been responsible for the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
"They could have scrambled fighter jets, couldn't they? Why didn't they? We're a NATO ally, aren't we? I'm not saying that they were behind it - I'm just asking questions. The families of the victims of the invasion have a right to answers."
Meanwhile, police have revealed that 123 Labour MPs have taken injunction orders against Michael Meacher.
"If he f*cking rings me again, I'm going to f*cking lamp the stupid w*anker," said one MP.
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