Is the New Labour Project over?

 Health minister Ivan Lewis today had the effrontery to suggest to Sweet Gordon Brown that an extra tax be levied on the highest earners to support poorer families through the economic downturn. Well excuse me, but isn't this what the Labour Movement was founded for in the first place?

But, what would really make Keir Hardie spin in his grave, is that Mr. Lewis went on to say: 'Yes, protect those on the lowest incomes but also help the hard-working middle classes with large mortgage commitments who are neither rich nor poor, the people who work long hours for their two holidays a year, leisure club membership, meals out with family and friends, and ability to buy their children nice things.'

Two holidays a year? Leisure club membership? Meals out? Nice things? The terms rich and poor obviously have no meaning to this man. There are people in this country who can't afford heating or food at all, and since the shameful abolition of the 10p tax rate many are finding it hard to make ends meet. I don't want to seem like a spoil-sport, but get your priorities right mate! Or stick to health matters.

 

On a lighter note, here is today's Haiku Film Review:

 

Gunga Din (1939) -

Not anything like

'Carry On Up The Khyber'.

Exceedingly good.