Stephen Pollard - 4 comments
It's a debate that's run and run, but I've finally decided to take Stephen off our list of Labour-supporting bloggers. As with anyone else who might be taken off the list, it's not a punishment, and it doesn't even necessarily mean I think the person is wrong, merely a recognition that people have to broadly back the party, or it defeats the object. I suppose this article was the clincher.
I would still encourage you to look out for his articles, at least for variety, and a link can be found in our sidebar.
Update: We've been picked up - a surprisingly high proportion of referrals seem to be from Universities, for what it's worth. Well, "excommunicated" does give the impression I'm being pious, which isn't the case at all.
I had no idea I was even on the siteNothing surreptitious though. Basically my role has been to trawl the Net for blogs which give the impression of being Labour-supporting, not all of whose authors necessarily have the time or motivation to actively join our list. I can't say anyone has objected so far. Some research does go into determining whether they're "with us" or not, and I generally err on the side of caution, such that a number of blogs I was initially unsure of turned out to be real stalwarts. Can't get it right all the time.
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You did well to hold out this long. I'd personally have gone for him over his 'getting rid of party democracy was the best thing Blair ever did' line he was running with around the time of the conference.
Last time I looked, my membership card still said we are a democratic socialist party, so its a bloody cheek to go round claiming that strangling internal democracy is a good thing.
Well said, unity.
B4L, I think you know that from the start of reading his posts, I wondered what the hell Pollard was doing on here.
If that guy supports Labour principles then I must be going wrong myself somewhere.
We all disagree with govt policy from time to time, but it was quite obvious to me that Pollard was a Tory, who just wanted Labour to move even more to the right.
No, he's a social liberal, and neither a Tory nor a conservative, though it may be that a Cameron-style Conservative party will be his new home. He's basically a New Labour evangelist who thinks it has failed to dump its political baggage (e.g. attachment to trade unions, internal democracy) and failed to sell economic reform to Europe.
All the same, people should be open to other views and ensure that theirs hold up to scrutiny.
Bloggers4Labour said"He's basically a New Labour evangelist who thinks it has failed to dump its political baggage (e.g. attachment to trade unions, internal democracy) and failed to sell economic reform to Europe."
Everytime I feel like resigning my membership, it's because I feel those sort of views are mainstream in the party. I didn't find anything especially anti-labour in his site, but then I got bored so didn't read that much.
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