A counsel of utter despair Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on June 25, 2023, 5:14 pm, in reply to "Ben Elton has the answer .... we can all relax"
Starmer being lauded by Ben Elton reminded me of an interview with ex-Labour MP Chris Mullin who says he backs Starmer's Labour because however flawed they were, and however much they might renege on their pledges, and no matter that Starmer had "supported" Corbyn while all the time trying to undermine him, and all that stuff, they might still "do some good" for ordinary working people because at least they weren't tories. And I thought as I watched the interview: It has come to this, to scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find some tiny last dreg of decency and hope that a corrupt political party led by an establishment state-sponsored politician might just be conceivably better than a bunch of tory crooks and chancers. And that folks is the best we can wish for. That we forget the treachery that's gone before, the expulsions of decent Labour people happening now, the role that Starmer played in persecuting Julian Assange -- put all that to one side on the sliver of a chance something good might come out of it by sheer bloody accident. What a dismal, miserable soul-destroying prospect.
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