I've heard the phrase 'I didn't leave the Labour Party, the Labour Party left me' many times over recent years. I fully identify with that sentiment. Let me be clear, those Labour elites gurning about Jeremy Corbyn do not have the country's best interests at heart, they are only bothered about their electability and the interests of the Labour Party as a party of government. Period.
The last generation of right wing Labour elites left and formed the SDP and look what happened to them!
It really is ridiculous in a modern democracy, a Labour Party that purports to be a socialist party is in fact a neo-liberalist machine, do they not realise there are millions in poverty in this country that do not get proper health care, education or a decent wage to live on? Where are they on that last one? What have the Labour party done to empower workers rights in the last 50 years? Nothing. Instead they have abstained and connived with their tory friends on every rollback of worker reform. Well the cat is out of the bag now. You wouldn't expect the Greens to advocate TTIP, coal and oil so why would the Labour party abandon public ownership of vital public services, a decent minimum wage and worker's right to industrial action? They are the Shifted Goalpost Party if ever there was one and all in the name of electability.
Why don't these Labour party elites just join the tories and have done with it?
Tory or Tory lite? Is that the real choice today? It really is a blummin sham. You know what? I'd rather have a tory government in power who I didn't vote for than a tory lite party that I did vote for. Perhaps the Labour Party is on the ropes because it left its principles and that is why the SNP, the Greens and other parties are on the upsurge. Think about it.
Last edited by Rheghead; 20-Aug-15 at 20:22.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
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