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Originally Posted by jaysay
Sometimes I scratch my head when I read some of the things you put on here Ken, you certainly don't come close to a socialist standard barer by a million miles  |
Memoirs are a great read and I must admit I've been looking forward to this one. Biographies don't really do it for me, they're always tainted by the rose-tinted spectacles of the fan who's written it so a warts-and-all autobiography is always the better bet. I want a better insight into the Iraq War and was hoping to gain some understanding of why he did it.
I don't know how pinning a 'socialist' badge to myself helps me be a better councillor for Rishton but my primary concern is for the here and now so the memoirs of an ex-Prime Minister are of little consequence in the grand scheme of things.
When you strip away all the party trappings you have 35 members of the public who were elected because they promised to try and make things better for their ward. I am priveliged to be in that select few and it seems that I am doing the things that people want me to do.
Labelling me as 'socialist' won't make me any better or worse.