New Labour: wipe out 2010..?!

The Lady Bracknell quote comes to mind when thinking about NL and losing by-elections…. misfortune and carelessness. Though incompetence and selling-out to the corporate monster is much more apt in describing the disaster that is becoming NL.

And now they stagger to another catastrophe in Glasgow East where NL sees its majority of over 13,000 dissolve instantly. With an election looming in 18mths time are we looking at total wipe-out?

Even if there’s a palace coup, with much Machiavellian plotting, spinning, sound-bites, stirring and eventual deposing of Brown. Who they gonna replace him with? One of the Miliband bros?  Wunderkind James Purnell? Indeed, clowns to the left, jokers to the right….

With no attempt to reverse the policies of NL, then they will certainly lose the next election. NL as an ideology running ever rapidly out of steam dragging its sorry arse into the next election. Wipe-out surely beckons?

Brown/Blair have trampled and stamped on left social democracy. Created a remote government from the electorate. Massive majorities squandered in favour of war mongering and bigging up the economic boom that has turned in a sour credit crunch. Food prices up, below inflation pay rises, and a precarious housing market but the priorities for NL are shafting its core voters, whether it’s 10p tax band or working for your dole or plundering peoples’ pay and pensions.

But surely NL is also looking at the wider picture and longer term. What is NL turning into? Or to put it another way, what does it want to transform into? I think they know the game is up and are dragging their feet, whiling away the hours until the next election.

At the moment, NL gets most of its cash from the unions and boy, do they wish they could get rid of that link to the organised working class and become a similar party to  Berlusconi’s….in my humble opinion.

DWP loses disability discrimination case

A registered blind woman has successfully sued the DWP for disability discrimination and has been awarded £2,500. Her benefit, income support, had been withdrawn following an anonymous complaint against her to the department. The DWP failed to send her documents in accessible forms when she appealed.

Under the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) it requires service providers to make “reasonable adjustments” to their services so as to provide as close a service as possible to that provided to other members of the public.

County Court District Judge Mort said: “Members of the public other than the claimant would get letters and would be able to read those letters and act on them and decide whether or not they needed advice”.

The DWP was found to have failed to comply with its own code of practice and caused the claimant inconvenience, effort, discomfort, anxiety and loss of dignity.

Sheffield Law Centre supported the woman in bringing this case and they argue: It is astonishing that the government department responsible for introducing the DDA should fail so comprehensively to apply the DDA. Providing access to people with disabilities takes many different forms and this case shows that government departments cannot ignore people’s rights and hinder access to justice”.