Yasmin used her what will probably be the final electoral communication delivered by Royal Mail before the election to remind us that ‘it’s the economy, stupid!’ Short of saying “if you value it, vote for it”, Yasmin talked about the low mortgage rates under Gorden Brown and the fall in unemployment from New Labour’s New Deal. The National Minimum Wage and other ‘redistributive’ policies are mentioned. A few figures… A dig at the Lib Dems…...
Yasmin used her what will probably be the final electoral communication delivered by Royal Mail before the election to remind us that ‘it’s the economy, stupid!’ Short of saying “if you value it, vote for it”, Yasmin talked about the low mortgage rates under Gorden Brown and the fall in unemployment from New Labour’s New Deal. The National Minimum Wage and other ‘redistributive’ policies are mentioned. A few figures… A dig at the Lib Dems…...
Here’s a scan of the Brent East Labour News ‘“I’m Backing Yasmin”’ I picked up at Kilburn Station last week. Front page - PDF file Back page - PDF file
The man who claimed that New Labour had ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat possed to the United Kingdom by Sadam Hussain’s Iraq is being quoted by Yasmin Qureshi on her most recent campaign material. Andrew Gilligan was writing in Friday 29th Evening Standard. I picked up the most recent flyer - literally, there were some floating around the platform at Kilburn, Jubilee Line - in the early evening on Friday....
I commented that there would be more on the Labour Party Brent East News ‘Delivering For You’. One thing I noticed was that Tony (Blair not Benn) doesn’t feature on the campaign material. There are three photos of Ken ‘Red’ Livingstone - Labours prodigal son - and a photo of Tony Benn (Old ‘Old Labour’ - sorry Tony) in that upright but slightly reclined pose that he does so well. Another Old Labour party member, Diane Abbot, is quoted in support of Yasmin....