Re: Agreed, but as some kind of Governor / figurehead of a new grouping he might be helpful. Archived Message
Posted by Dovetail Joint on March 29, 2023, 7:17 am, in reply to "Agreed, but as some kind of Governor / figurehead of a new grouping he might be helpful."
The problem with the British version of parliamentary democracy is that it doesn't really allow more than two parties. How often has one heard it described as a 'two party system'? This completely rules out even the Liberals who gain millions of votes! Establishining a new party is a gigantic task, not least financing it. Where is the money going to come from... the Unions? Corbyn had a chance to create a new party on the left when he became leader of the Labour Party, perhaps the best opportunity for a century. He could have radically transformed Labour from within, kicking the right out or forcing them to leave en masse and reforming the party machine structurally to give power to the Labour activists and constituencies over candidate selection. At the same time he would have kept control over the 'brand', the name, the structure and forced the right to establish a new party outside Labour and forced them to show their true colours. Only he never wanted to really do this, his niceness aside, it's his ####ing incompetence that annoys me. The bloke isn't an intellectual or a strategist. He's a backbencher who was catapulted into a position of power he never desired and wasn't suited for temprementally or intellectually. That the 'left' is in a worse position now than when he took over, weaker and bereft of coherent ideas... John MacDonald!, is an indictment of Corbyn's leadership.
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Message Thread:
- Jeremy Corbyn is a coward. - Laurie March 29, 2023, 12:07 am
- I certainly don't & have laughed all day - Chris Rogers March 29, 2023, 12:52 am
- Re: I certainly don't & have laughed all day - psingh March 29, 2023, 1:04 am
- At the time of the talk following the Assange Night Carnival, I mentioned what a disappointment and - sashimi March 29, 2023, 1:18 am
- It's as good as it gets ... - Tomski March 29, 2023, 1:44 am
- Agreed, but as some kind of Governor / figurehead of a new grouping he might be helpful. - marknadim March 29, 2023, 5:49 am
- Re: Agreed, but as some kind of Governor / figurehead of a new grouping he might be helpful. - Dovetail Joint March 29, 2023, 7:17 am
- Re: Jeremy Corbyn is a coward. - Dovetail Joint March 29, 2023, 7:27 am
- The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so....nm - Keith-264 March 29, 2023, 2:18 pm
- Its not all, take a leaf out of the Rights book - Chris Rogers March 29, 2023, 3:54 pm
- Yeah - but Latuff often seems like a geopolitical late-awakener with comments/tweets re MSM - Jim_Carlucci March 30, 2023, 9:18 am
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