When Perkins refuses to change suits to meet the Queen - what is that meant to prove? Likewise, when Gordon Brown refused to wear white or black tie to official functions, what did it prove? Are some people on the left so pathetic that they think this is making a revolutionary statement?
shareAre people on the right so paranoid that they have to use the actions of a fictional character as example of the mistakes of a political movement?
Are people on the right so mornic that they still think of Gordon Brown as being 'on the left'?
Brown, and Blair, massively increased the power of the state against the individual and sent state spending into the stratosphere. They also increased the role of the state in the economy, even before the crash, and increased government beauracracy. All policies borrowed from every Communist regime that's ever existed.
AVBC was adapeted from a book by Labour MP Chris Mullen with a lot of Labourites advising. The fact that 10 years after it was shown Gordon Brown did in reality what Harry Perkins did in fiction demonstrates that people on the left do think it represents something.
funky-dunc: "Brown, and Blair, massively increased the power of the state against the individual and sent state spending into the stratosphere. They also increased the role of the state in the economy, even before the crash, and increased government beauracracy. All policies borrowed from every Communist regime that's ever existed."
Ironically, Thatcher and Reagan did the exact same. The Bushes too. And now Cameron and Osborne. There's no real difference, both sides prefer giving taxpayer's money to private corporations rather than spending it directly on nationalised industries. It's still our money that props the whole thing up - it's just that since privatization we are obliged to pay twice for the same services.
I suppose these conservatives did at least cut back on state regulation of the financial industry, but the results have not been great.
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No, we just show that we're not as pompous as some.
Boo!