From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 03:16:02 MDT
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:18:19PM -0700, Reason wrote:
>
> What the UK, and the rest of Europe, does have is a burgeoning neo-luddite,
> socialist, pro-inteventionist government, left-leaning, anti-capitalist,
> anti-success collection of ideals that are working their way quite
> successfully into the mainstream.
Excuse me. Calling New Labour neo-luddite I'll buy, but calling
them socialist, pro-interventionist, left-leaning, or anti-capitalist
is ridiculous. This is the party that's trying to privatise the air
traffic control system and the post office, refuses to even discuss
re-nationalising the rail system (despite ongoing chaos and roughly
85% public support for taking the track infrastructure back into
public ownership), and wants to find ways of semi-privatising chunks
of the NHS. This is the party whose 2001 conference is being sponsored
by McDonald's. This is _not_ your grandfather's Labour Party.
> It's all very distressing, and one of the
> reasons that I left for a country in which people of talent can still make
> something of themselves without having to justify their success to those
> without said talent.
Hmm. So just what have you made of yourself?
-- Charlie
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