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TonyHannon Fri May 02, 2008 at 05:46:22 PM GMT 
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…local democracy!
I’m not saying this because the Conservatives won or because we got a hammering but consider for a moment what has happened vis-à-vis how we got these results.
TonyHannon Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 01:49:56 PM GMT
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You know the feeling…you log onto LabourHome or another political website, see a new comment under a story you’ve written or posted on and read remarks that you completely disagree with.
TonyHannon Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 03:49:25 PM GMT
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What will it take to restore the Party's reputation and popularity?
TonyHannon Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 03:11:56 PM GMT
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Ken Livingstone should win because of his record – not our ability to slander his opponent.
TonyHannon Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 04:35:28 PM GMT
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From Huffington Post.
It is, of course, brilliant. One of the most appropriate speeches I've ever read. This honest and challenging approach is why I'm a fan.
TonyHannon Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 01:12:35 PM GMT
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Mr. Cameron – I didn’t want to see your family on the news. I’m sure they’re perfectly lovely and you’re completely dedicated to them but this was a poor decision –not least because of the reason you gave.
TonyHannon Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 07:00:24 PM GMT
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A hammering in Mississippi currently being handed out, a superdelegate backer being forced to resign over a
sex scandal (which will remind everyone of Bill) and now flip-flopping on the Clinton-Obama ticket idea which she originally hinted at - I wonder what it'll take for her to realise she's finished in this campaign?
TonyHannon Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53:57 AM GMT
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I spotted
this in
The Times and thought it’d provoke a fine correspondence!!
TonyHannon Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 07:13:22 PM GMT
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It’s almost a week since I ranted about something - I wanted to put down a few not quite fully formed proposals for your consideration.
TonyHannon Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 02:24:04 PM GMT
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The Bishop of Rochester and the Daily Mail have made me wonder if there’s any mileage in a new wing of the Labour Party called “Labour against stupid people” – frankly, I think our time has come.
TonyHannon Sat Dec 08, 2007 at 01:10:46 AM GMT
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I imagine how pleased Osama Bin Laden must be with how things are going with the 'War on Terror'.
What would his chairman's email to the group read like?
TonyHannon Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 03:58:35 PM GMT
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Now that it’s occasionally forgivable to take an idea from those freedom-loving, government fearing, free-market evangelicals at the Conservative Party – I’ve decided to put a question to you that I’ve stumbled across on ConservativeHome.
They’ve asked PPC’s why they are Conservatives. The resulting collection of platitudes, misdirection and cynical, unreasoned box-ticking can be found here:
Alongside, to be fair, about four good answers.
It prompts a predictable question – why are you Labour?
TonyHannon Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 11:21:22 AM GMT
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Some people tell me that it's a waste of time reading the letters section on the newspapers but I often find that the gems of good argument can be found in the rough.
Read David Blunkett's letter in today's Guardian.
TonyHannon Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 12:24:40 PM GMT
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I know I shouldn’t and it’s very displeasing when others to do it, but, I’d like a moan. Here is a shortlist of the really vexing things about having an interest in current affairs. Hopefully, some will hit home and there’ll be the discovery that I’m not alone in hating them. There may even be widespread agreement - a critical mass of like minded people leading to a resolution that something is done about some of them – the assertion that democracy works!!!
Or perhaps, an interesting thread on LabourHome…
TonyHannon Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 04:21:08 PM GMT
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Former first minister Jack McConnell has announced his immediate resignation as Scottish Labour leader. The 47-year-old, who will stay on as MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, is to become the next British High Commissioner to Malawi.
McConnell quits Labour leadership
It's on BBC and Reuters.
How do we think this will shape things in Scotland?
