Will the left ever again espouse self determination, as they did in the days of Peter Shore, Michael Foot, and the great Tony Benn?
Or will they forever whine on, about how the neoliberal, neo-colonial, fascist EU needs to save them from themselves? (1/2)
The answer to this question is fundamental to the prospects of there ever again being a Left Government. Because, while the middle class "left" moans about this or that problem with Brexit, the working class are being killed off by the Establishment. (2/3)
Eventually, the working class will probably just ignore all elections, and that will mean Tory hegemony until the end of time. Is that what the middle class really want? Will that allow them a life of easeful comfort?
Are the middle class really happy to live with food banks? Are they really happy to have Perec "Peter" Rachman stamp their neighbourhood with under repaired properties, and have their neighbours move in and out, "TO LET" signs permanently littering their streets?
Is every railway arch, every back alley to become a no-go area?
The only security a "gated community"?
Let me tell you this: those gates are NOT to keep the great unwashed out, but to keep YOU permanently in. You may not see this, yet, but you will.
Everybody who sees themselves as being left, should be made to reflect on two simple, but intensely germane, facts about the Labour Party.
1.) But it was not to be. Council Labour Groups were strongholds of the right-wing. Out of more than 7,000 Labour councillors only 400 or so had supported Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid. (@TUSCoalition , No Cuts Peoples' Budget)
2.)
Cand. ______ Members _ Reg. Sup. _ Aff. Sup. _ Total
_______________Vs _ % ____ Vs _ % ____ Vs _ % ____ Vs _ %
Starmer _ 225,135/56.1% _ 10,228/76.6% _ 40,417/53.1% _ 275,780/56.2%
275,780!!!
Turnout: 62.6 per cent. 490,731 returned ballots, from 784,181 eligible voters.
The Government "response" to the petition "Protect the NHS, Press Pause on the White Paper for Health and Social care".
Those of you who signed this petition - if you did not, please do now - will have received an email in response this morning. To dignify it with a full-on critique would, in my view, be a mistake.
The nature of the response can be gauged by the documents they provide in support. We can, perhaps, spend some time on the ridiculous and insulting market speak - I hesitate to call it language - a little later.
Nicholas Wilson (Mr Ethical) first told HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank in 2003 that charges they were adding to debts were illegal. They ignored him. He has campaigned ever since. change.org/p/hsbc-hsbc-to…
2006 - NW reported his employers, Weightmans Solicitors, to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. They sacked him and referred to him as 'Mr Ethical'.