In Ramsgate High Street
Posted by harriet in Uncategorized | September 3rd, 2007
In Ramsgate High Street with Stephen Ladyman MP. Again, no-one didn’t want to stop to talk to us. And again, young people complaining that there’s not enough for them to do….. People like what they are seeing of Gordon Brown and, again, no-one mentioned David Cameron. Had a chance to have a brief chat with Labour Party members. Big concern about the problems faced by migrant workers who are brought here by agencies, crammed into crowded homes and then work for less than what is paid to the existing employees. They are concerned for the migrant workers and for the employees who fear their pay and conditions will be undercut. And they say that migrant workers crammed into crowded homes cause resentment in local communities. This will be discussed further at conference.
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1. Stephen | September 5th, 2007 at 12:18
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You do live a charmed life, Harriet. An endless succession of streets, and not a single voice of dissent against Gordon whatever. Can this really be so? And not a single mention of David Cameron? Not even to say that they’ll be voting Labour because David is all style and no substance?
Perhaps your next visit could be to a street where the residents are not all paid up members of Gordon’s fan club, where the odd older person says that as chancellor his raid on the pension funds has catastrophically damaged their pension?
If you come down my street (please do; I’ll offer you a cuppa) I won’t be telling you how pleased I am with the changes Gordon has made. I’ll be expressing my disappointment that we have a government utterly devoid of policy when it comes to Iraq and Afghanistan. And I’d remind you of what you said about Iraq when you campaigned for the deputy leadership, as opposed to when you actually won.
This blog needs to be a bit spikier, less full of dull platitudes. What are the areas where you see the government as having most room for improvement? What do you bring to the table in all this? Or perhaps you could idendify the politicians who haven’t already been canonised and for whom sainthood is 100% certain.
At the very least you could enlighten us about the government under TB, and which mistakes and failures you would prioritise on correcting. Anything, just anything which is less bland, less dull, and written from a critical stance.
2. Harriet | September 5th, 2007 at 19:31
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Sorry, Stephen….but Ramsgate really was very charming! At least I didn’t mention the very pretty harbour which i could have done. It’s a lovely place. I suggest you visit. I only mention that people didn’t mention david cameron because they didn’t. ….. I shall try and think about being spikier. As far as the things that the government should be doing differently, look at what i said in the deputy leadership election and look at what we are doing now….more emphasis on parliament, more youth services, more housing, acknowledging problems in Iraq. the point is we are changing things in government….
3. Richard Eastcliff | October 31st, 2007 at 14:20
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Speaking as a millionaire media mogul who moved to Ramsgate a couple of years ago, I couldn’t agree more with your sentiments about our town. It truly is the Cannes of Kent!
4. Khadija | April 15th, 2008 at 6:51
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What you are looking for, Harriet, is a town with no “facists”. Here’s what you do:
1) Learn to spell “fascist” correctly.
2) Shoot all fascists, ie anyone with a brain and/or anyone with more than 10p in their bank account: except for you of course. Four legs good, two legs better!
There! You have your extreme leftist utopia. Happy now?
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