Clare Short?

Question

Are you sorry to learn that she is resigning from the political scene. I am sorry though I feel she would have achieved far more had she spoken up like she did on the jeremy vine show this morning. To hear this again go to www.bbc/radio2/jeremy vine.

Not a blairite by the way just someone who thinks we need to get back to a democratic way of governing this country.

Correction from Parliment and not from the Political scene.

Never voted Labour in my life and do not intent to now.

Answer 1

I agree. Clare Short is a great person to have in politics. I don't agree with her politics but she added colour when there's very little left. We will miss her.

Answer 2

Although most of what she said I could agree with, I lost all respect for her over the whole resigning from the cabinet, not resigning, resigning affair. She showed that she could easily turn on her principles and then change them back when criticised.

I'm sure it will not be the end of her though, a career in tv on shows such as question time and this week beckons where she'll really be able to speak her mind and not be governed by Labour spin wizards who tell her what she can and cant say

Answer 3

I understood her to say she is resigning from Parliament but far from resigning from the political scene - she feels she will be more free to campaign from outside. She has integrity - about the only one of the present governing party you can say that about. The rest have sold out to Blair's massive ego and arrogance - we do not live in a democracy any more and our rights are being eroded every day. Blair has torn up rights we have enjoyed since Magna Carta and nobody seems to care. I think he took Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual.

Answer 4

Claire Short is a pathitic rabble rouser of the very worst kind, she hates this country and what it stands (stood) for and she and the vermin like her are very much part of what is going wrong right now! Take a look at what Tony Blair is doing to us - she thinks that he is too soft and fluffy!! Her stance on immigration is insane and her views on how we should conduct our foreign policy borders on being deliberatly anti British. If you believe that we should "get back to a democratic way of governing this country" then perhaps you should find out the truth about people like "comrade Short".
She is a foul thing and I for one am very glad indeed that shes off the scene but do not believe that she is gone for good, problems like her do not just go away - she has too much trouble to stir up before she is good and done.
Good riddance.

Answer 5

I'm not sorry to hear she is resigning. While an able politician (I say able rather than honourable because no politician gives me cause to look on them that way) she is an ex-minister and ex-ministers once out of office tend to become all bitter and twisted. Charles Clarke is a typical example, he knows he has no chance of getting back in the inner circle so he lashes out.

Answer 6

Clare Short is a fool.
Do you remember her campaigning in the 1980's to get soft porn magazines banned from newsagents? Do you remember her telling the world that we were bugging Kofi Annan? We don't need immature left wing idiots in our government. She represents the naieve student politics of the socialist 1960's and she carried that through into her career. She's nothing more than an agitator. She couldn't handle responsibility and power.

Answer 7

Dont vote for labour again if you want to get back to a domocratic way of governing this country.Theres nowt democratic about a labour way of governing at the moment..............

Answer 8

She was the best ever Sec. of State for International Development.