London & Prague

I found it amusing when Labour bloggers got animated about Short resigning after campaigning on the 2005 manifesto. Other than delivering some watered-down education reforms with Tory support, where can Labour even claim to have made good on their 2005 manifesto? If delivery on a manifesto is the benchmark for staying in post, the lot of them should resign.

All we’ve had from Labour since 2005 is knee-jerks, (anything re criminal justice – the latest being flag-burning laws) spin, (I’m thinking about the reshuffle, Labour’s 50 Achievements I could go on), soap opera, (Brown, Blair, Simon, Watson, DPM race etc etc) u-turns (police mergers and re faith schools being the biggest ones) and more than a whiff of favouritism across the board (Supercasinos, hospital closures). In fact is there anything, they’re doing right?

However, I can’t deny that there has been plenty to blog about from London.

At the other end of the spectrum is Prague. I started blogging at the end of July. At that time, the results of the June election had led to a stalemate where neither right nor left could command sufficient support to form a government. Today, getting on for six months after the election, we’re in just the same situation as when I blogged on August 15. I’m sick of Czech politics. Nothing ever happens.