Comments on: Richard Caborn: Why Labour can be proud of the Olympics (an exercise in Carpet bagging) http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2008/08/22/richard-caborn-why-labour-can-be-proud-of-the-olympics-an-exercise-in-carpet-bagging/ Politics, Commentary, Culture, Technology. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dave Cole http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2008/08/22/richard-caborn-why-labour-can-be-proud-of-the-olympics-an-exercise-in-carpet-bagging/comment-page-1/#comment-9803 Dave Cole Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:55:59 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2008/08/22/richard-caborn-why-labour-can-be-proud-of-the-olympics-an-exercise-in-carpet-bagging/#comment-9803 I have a few issues with this. Firstly, you can hardly expect a politician not to claim some credit for successes under their watch; while I don't deny that <em>some</em> of the groundwork was done pre-1997, a lot has been done since. Equally, unless the government of the day trumpets its achievements, they will not be reported at all. Quite who is responsible for the situation I don't claim to know, but it is hard for anyone who is going to be picked up by the media to make nuance claims. On the economic issue, Labour's success is not 'achieving a good economic situation' but 'keeping a good economic situation'. xD. Dave Coles last blog post..<a href="http://davecole.org/blog/2008/08/26/what-were-you-doing-when-you-heard-about/" rel="nofollow">What were you doing when you heard about…</a> I have a few issues with this. Firstly, you can hardly expect a politician not to claim some credit for successes under their watch; while I don’t deny that some of the groundwork was done pre-1997, a lot has been done since. Equally, unless the government of the day trumpets its achievements, they will not be reported at all. Quite who is responsible for the situation I don’t claim to know, but it is hard for anyone who is going to be picked up by the media to make nuance claims.

On the economic issue, Labour’s success is not ‘achieving a good economic situation’ but ‘keeping a good economic situation’.

xD.

Dave Coles last blog post..What were you doing when you heard about…

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