Superman Gordon is back, in his own mind anyway

So here it was, the big speech for the Labour Conference. Once upon a time Gordon 'saved the world.' Now he claims he will 'Change the world again'. This assumes he has already done so once, which he hasn't, the Government has changed Britain though, for the worse.

So to what he promised, first, a Labour manifesto commitment to a referendum on the AV+ voting system. This is a combination of cheap, dangerous and two-faced. Cheap because he believes PR will keep the left in power for ever, what a terrifying though. Dangerous because he opened the conference pledging to fight the BNP to ensure 'they have no place in the democratic politics of this country.' This measure opens the door to facists in parliament. and two-faced because, well a Labour referendum manifesto commitment, remember the last one on the EU Treaty, they lied about that, why would they not do so again.

Then their are state run shared houses for 16 and 17 year old single mothers. After 12 years of creating broken Britain, it is now Labour offical part policy. Also, after baby P and all that, let's entrust the state with more babies. Idiocy at it's worst. He also waffled about anti-social behaviour and tackling it. I don't recall this being a huge issue in 1997, sure there were problems, but not like now. the fact it needs tackling is a miserable legacy of Labour. Like the recession, we are supposed to believe those who created the mess are the ones to sort it out, worse, they don't have the Guts to acknowledge it was their fault in the first place.

This is my immiedate thoughts after just hearing the speech for the first time, I may post more later, probably after deciding this speech was even worse than I first though.