"I'm alright Jack."

Mother has been rather disappointed by a certain old glam rocker recently... Bryan Ferry. She's been a huge fan of his since she was a teenager and recently she's been having a little Renaissance of affection. Not such a good idea it seems.... Mothers always been a firm believer in the Labour party (well not in Blair, no one was that keen) and naturally assumed that due to the high volumes of actors and performers who vote Labour there was nothing to worry about.... Ohh.... She's been very disappointed to discover that Bryan attends Tory party balls, etc. Still she tried to convince herself that he might just be going and not know what it was for, or wasn't really a commited Tory. Now of course with news about the "lovely" Otis Ferry and certain discoveries shes made about Bryan's ex-wife Lucy Ferry and her new husband (I can think of other people who liked Pinochet, not that I'd want to share a lift with any of them) She has had to accept that if nothing else Bryan might be a little, tweeny bit more right than she thought... It's definitely getting her down. Not surprised, politics is very important and not forgetting where you came from is just as important. Washington was a mining town, what did the Conservatives ever do to help miners rights? Nothing until they finally closed them all down and put the miners out of work at the same time diminishing the power of British industry and manufacturing. It's a pattern that's been repeated in many industries under the Conservatives. It's a shame if people don't remember this. There has been a lot on about the party conferences if you watch the news now. When they ask people what they think the answers are as pitiful and inane as one would expect from those who have been convinced that they live in an age where the political parties are nearly indistinguishable (they might look alike but they are still poles apart). Quite a lot of people seem to have come around to the view that Mrs Thatcher was actually a rather nice woman who put the unions in their place. Very sad views to hear expressed by people who themselves probably come from working class backgrounds. Recently thinking about these things I started reading the sections on the founding of the Labour party from Roy Hattersley's book the Edwardians, so much I didn't know. It seems sad somehow that it took two Scottish men, both illegitimate and one a former miner to give all the U.K's workers a proper voice in Parliament. Still if one man shows the way more must have the courage to follow in his path. I've always been very proud as a fan of David Tennant's that he is a proud Labour voter even prepared to appear in adverts for the Scottish branch of his party. At the same time I'm always shocked by people who think either that celebrities should not indulge in politics or that what they believe does not matter. It does, we express or feelings and sympathies not just to ourselves but to our fellow man in our politics. That should never be de-valued.