My thoughts and concerns on Labour's long-term political direction, including on @Keir_Starmer's recent essay, written for @tribunemagazine at #Lab21 👇

tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/how-la… Repeatedly Labour leaderships have emerged committed to maintaining the basic structures of the British economy.

If there is to be a debate about our direction of travel, it should be conducted in a generous, honest and tolerant tone. It should focus on true policy positions, not caricatures formulated as part of tactical machine politics. Me for the @NewStatesman

newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… I am and always have been a radical democratic socialist. There have been moments in our history when we were in the majority within the party leadership, but more often this was not the case. In spite of its pluralism, the Labour Party had socialism in its DNA from the start 1/6

This zombie Government has stopped even pretending to govern; it is preoccupied only with its party's survival. There hasn't been a single vote in the Commons all week. On Monday they withdrew a finance bill in the Commons half an hour before it was due to be presented. They knew that they didn’t have a majority of MPs to get their business through.