Bob Geldof

I actually wrote the last post after reading yet another comment about Bob Geldof which seemed to revolve around the fact that he is seen as a "pop star" and ofcourse the clash between being seen as a slightly rebellious figure as a pop star and also being seen as an establishment figure at the same time. And is the latter why he's agreed to help the Conservatives with a group that proports to be against global poverty. Almost saying that he couldn't have any or many socialist ideals because of his business life.

I still go "eek" at the words Tory or Conservative but at the moment Mr Cameron is setting up these groups which I'm looking at with bemusement I suppose really because the two don't go together in my mind. And I really support the idea of the groups.

Also I love the idea of the focus they're giving.

Would I turn my back on the proported ideals of these groups because the ideas came from the Tories rather than Labour.

I like a lot of what Mr Cameron has said. I just have no love for his party. I consider the present Labour government to be reasonably right wing, and given recent events, possibly veering more in that direction than I thought, but in my mind the make up of the Tory Party is far more to the right than the present Labour Party. It presents a lot of problems in my mind.

Difficult.

I see part of the problem stemming from Labour's rather autocratic attitudes. I feel they didn't really want public attention focused on their internal policies and certainly nothing that might bring about public involvement because they really aren't that socially interested. Which has been alright for them up to now because there was no opposition to really show this up.

But basically I'm a Socialist and I know that at least part of this is just political manoevering to get attention and get support.

Look I'm looking in their direction. They've caught my attention.

What I have to decide now is whether the party as a whole is what I'd consider safe or whether it'd just revert if it was in power.

I've been shocked enough by the limits on freedom in the last few months to get jittery at the thought of a more right wing government.

But I'm jittery for other reasons with this government and I feel a kind of jaded cynicism about it all now.

What will happen. Who knows.

God, who knows what I'd've decided.