- Re: Keir Starmer Says 'Big' Victory In Labour Leadership Race Needed To Unite Party Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt
on February 27, 2020, 9:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Keir Starmer Says 'Big' Victory In Labour Leadership Race Needed To Unite Party"
| I joined labour with my eyes open and have expressed awareness of the problems of the party here many times - corbyn was a cosmic accident which meant there was a chance to express some support for socialism - i never had any illusion that the party machinery were going to suddenly turn socialist. It was a straight choice between supporting the only even slightly socialist option in my voting lifetime, or allowing my lack of support to be used as an excuse for even more rightwards push. I said more than once here i didn;t expect them to let him win, but that the stopping of him might be instructive (it doesn't seemn to have been though - the bias storm seems to have gone down the memory hole). And it was never about corbyn for me, poltroon or not - it was always about supporting the economic and foreign policies |