@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 You obviously have a short memory yourself - or you've been brainwashed.
Foot soared to as much as 50% in the polls in 1981, trouncing a staggeringly unpopular Thatcher, leading to panicked warnings in the RW press about a 150 seat majority for the Soviet stooges...
Foot soared to as much as 50% in the polls in 1981, trouncing a staggeringly unpopular Thatcher, leading to panicked warnings in the RW press about a 150 seat majority for the Soviet stooges...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ... then we had open sabotage by the forefathers of the "Centrists", who as we can see in glrorious technicolour are never able to accept not being in control. (I say forefathers quite literally - the same Lord Sainsbury who funded the SDP...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ... funded the Blairites' Progress - the neoliberal, privatising, NHS and education marketising, disabled welfare claimant-persecuting, Thatcher-loving, warmongering party-within-a-party that mysteriously never gets mentioned in the same RW press that bangs on about Momentum...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...of course the Blairite faction had other socialist funders, like lobbyists for private healthcare - surely a coincidence that former members of the Blair Cabinet ended up on the boards of private healthcos (Hewitt, Reid, Alan Johnson etc)...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...We didn't know it at the time, but thanks to the wonders of leaked documents we now know that the "Centrist's" sabotage of Foot was covert as well as overt. See the following leaked memo from Thatcher confidant, Tory MP Ian Gow to his Dear Leader...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ..."(RW, "Centrist" Labour/later SDP MP Neville) Sandelson says his remaining political purpose is to ensure the re-election of (Thatcher... as an essential) precondition for a real purge of the Left"... 
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...However the "Centrists" were not the only millstone around Foot's neck. In a stroke of uncanny bad luck he saw Thatcher rescued from the dungeon of unpopularity by The Argentine military, eventually achieving near-impregnable status as a successful war leader...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...None other than that infamously Lefty journalist & historian Max Hastings has said that even with the "Centrist" backstabbing Foot might have won the 1983 election were it not for the recklessness of General Galtieri....
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...Some have surmised that the Argentines were enticed to attack by the withdrawal of the Icebreaker patrolling the region, but I don't know enough about that to have an opinion...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...Anyway, despite the exocet missiles fired at his leadership by the "Centrists" and (almost literally) The Argentine military, Foot still polled more or less the same popular vote on a pro rata basis as Blair in 2005...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...If Tonypatt2000's memory of the latter election is considerably more accurate than his memory of the Foot era, he will recall that unlike Foot, Blair had iron, dictatorial control of the party, a RW press so supportive that Blair became Godfather to Murdoch's daughter...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ... and was confronted with a Tory leader so hopelessly unappealing that he could be described as Dracula with everyone instantly seeing the likeness and made Anne Widdecombe seem decent and reasonable by comparison...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ... Tony may also remember that said Tory leader was subject to a Blairite campaign that was attacked as antisemitic. When asked to respond to these charges Campbell told the media to "eff off". Maybe Corbyn should have done the same...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...So in summary, to all those fair-minded people who are in danger of being seduced by a clearly co-ordinated campaign, rewriting history in order to convince us that mildly socialist policies of the type not considered outlandish elsewhere cannot work in the UK...
@tonypatt2000 @JackDunc1 ...Don't believe the hype.
