David, I couldn't agree more. The PLP seem to me to be a disgrace. This is the wrong move at the wrong time. Blair was neoliberal heart and soul, selling out the non-middle class as he moved, or so he said, to the middle ground. What I would like to know is: Where is the middle ground now that some of these people seem to be working towards? And the blatant narcissicistic careerism of this move is shocking. Certainly, Corbyn looks shocked.
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> I suggest people compare the original clause 4 with the fatuous shite on our current Labour Party cards courtesy of Blair. The Labour party was created to defend the ability of
> workers to engage in industrial action - clue is in the name. Socialization of production (nationalized rail and utilities anyone?) and welfare came after. It was a party of an industrial working class in an industrial world. Its fundamental problem is what
> is it for now? We certainly need a party for the post-industrial working class - as Labour used to say the workers by hand or by brain - but Labour after Blair may well not be it. It may be incorrigible. I rejoined after Corbyn's election - I didn't vote
> in that election - because there were some signs of a move in a direction towards the future but if the clowns who dominate the PLP get rid of Corbyn - not the person so much as the fact that however inadequately he stands for something different, then it
> will go the way in the rest of the UK that is has gone in Scotland. Sure there will still be some MPs and unlike Scotland with the SNP there is no party which can make a claim, however weak, to stand to the left of Labour on austerity, but given the complete
> inability of the party to develop any coherent analysis of the current crisis or articulation of a way forward from it then maybe it belongs in the dustbin of history. Certainly most the PLP belong there.
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> but I think he might be worse with a departmental brief.) It was a vote for a radical change of direction. If Corbyn is forced out of the leadership that project dies. The parliamentary Party is attempting to substitute itself for the democratic will of the
> membership. They know that they will almost certainly lose (again) in a ballot of the membership, so they are trying to humiliate him into standing down.
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> I'm 50% with you - maybe Tom Watson should stand but with a commitment to have Jeremy in his cabinet. That way we can really believe in (and vote for) JC's "life after death". JB
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> York Left Discussion Forum: inaugural meeting (on Brexit): Wednesday 29th June (7.30 at Shoulder of Mutton, Heworth) - please tell your friends! See
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