David Cameron

This is cross-posted at liberalconspiracy.org. 

Another majestically irritating contribution from pro-life sympathisers today: Dave Cameron, who should know better, tells us that he likes the idea of cutting the time limit for abortion from 24 weeks as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill progresses through the House.

A few thoughts:

I wonder if I can stand much more of this tripe from these persons. We're not even talking the real world here - just Nadine Dorries and Ann Widdecombe and other leading lights in Dave's menopausal mafia claiming - I think my notes are correct - to have seen pictures of foetuses walking/dancing/voting conservative at 24 weeks' gestation, and being moved observe that we should save babies of this age simply because we can.

I've never quite got my head around this aspect of the pro-life argument, but let's give it another whirl: as far as I can gather, they're trying to imply that because we're at a point in medical history where doctors are able to save babies born at 24 weeks, aborting other babies at 24 weeks is giving the big finger to human technical advance.

...to do a bit of anti-Cameron publicity.

You have doubtless heard that Tory Hammersmith and Fulham Council has spent the year since its election maiming public services. David Cameron says his Conservatives are lovely people. In fact, they remain the planet's leading arseholes, which is no small achievement.

Anyway, the whole nightmare is laid out at hfconwatch.blogspot.com, which has been watching it all hit the fan since October last year and should have been linked to ages ago. Fucked up a bit on that one.

Their latest entry details now-legendary Tory plans to murder the Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre.

Which we will be getting into in more detail in the next week or so.

Bye again.

We continue our interviews with Labour party members about the party's future at a time of falling membership, undecided leadership and confused policy direction.

There are interviews with party socialists here
There are interviews with party moderates here
There are interviews with party Blairites here

Party members Nick Parrott, Max Freedman, Omar Salem and Mazher Hussain are as clear as most of us on the key to saving party's future: re-train Labour's straying focus on the domestic agenda, and aim policy at those constituents Labour was meant for.

'Blair maybe put too much of the focus on Worcester Woman and Mondeo Man,' Freedman admits. Re-engaging with Labour's traditional, and presently very sad, supporters will also go some way to keeping that smiley wanker David Cameron in his box. Everybody knows that Cameron will rat the masses out, particularly in areas like housing - everybody is already all too aware of the large and nasty gap that yawns between Cameron's warming, right-on hippie rhetoric and the evil social policies that his Conservative activists, especially in local authorities, are developing and implementing on the ground as we speak.

Hammersmith and Fulham is an excellent example: less than a year has passed since the Conservatives took that council from Labour, and they've already washed their flabby white hands of the needy and the not-so-fabulously rich. Schools are being earmarked for sale to developers and housing centres for closure, housing staff are being made redundant and the Council's committees section is no longer quite staffed. A similar rape of services that are desperately required by the beleaguered poor is underway at the Lib Dem-Conservative Camden council. The Conservatives are not here to make friends.