You never can tell how the day will pan out. Take today for example. It had been my intention to toddle off up to the allotment and get stuck into the autumn muck spreading. Makes a change from spreading it on the web. Anyway, I made my sarni and a flask of tea, reached for my trusty Freedom Pass and prepared to set off. Bugger! It's only started to rain. I should have seen it coming. Me being a bit of an amateur meteorologist and all, as her indoors was quick to point out.
Ah well! On to plan B- elevate feet and have a read of the paper. Now what's all this? ".....absolute belief in the ability of ordinary working-class people to determine their future and make their own decisions......activist in the working-class tradition
..... believe strongly that it's not about well meaning middle-class people doing good things for working-class people." This is not a quote from some yellowing Solidarity pamphlet circa 1972. No. This is arch Blairite and New Labour super-chick Hazel Blears.
You can't fault it of course. It's all true. The trouble is that if working-class communities really did take matters into their own hands and started to make their own decisions, and implement those decisions, the power of the state would be down on them like a ton of bricks. It would then be up to Our Haze to decide whose side she was on.
Blears also goes on to say that, " The truth is,the poorest people always get the poorest services because they have not had the clout and the influence." And it took all these long wasted years of Labour government to find that out, right?
I should never have opened Society Guardian. I knew that it would upset me. Should have gone up the allotment in the rain.
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