- Re: BBC or Starmer,s Labour,which is the most obnoxious? Archived Message
- BBC or Starmer,s Labour,which is the most obnoxious? - ceemac666 July 16, 2023, 3:01 am
- "There had been years of vicious infighting, and agonies over antisemitism." - Morrissey July 16, 2023, 6:22 am
- Re: BBC or Starmer,s Labour,which is the most obnoxious? - RaskolnikovX July 16, 2023, 6:28 am
- I don't live in their country - Keith-264 July 16, 2023, 8:31 am
- Me too :-) nm - Shyaku July 17, 2023, 8:14 am
- Me too :-) nm - Shyaku July 17, 2023, 8:14 am
- Re: BBC or Starmer,s Labour,which is the most obnoxious? - marknadim July 16, 2023, 10:22 am
- "There had been years of vicious infighting, and agonies over antisemitism." - Morrissey July 16, 2023, 6:22 am
Posted by Ian M
on July 16, 2023, 11:32 am, in reply to "Re: BBC or Starmer,s Labour,which is the most obnoxious?"
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Kuenssberg: 'Battles with the left The leadership has been accused of control freakery, trying to suppress the left, expelling party members unfairly. But a source says the danger of disputes with the left is "way down the risk register", the focus has to be on potential voters. One shadow minister believes Sir Keir thinks "I can't be in government and dependent on these people". The logic goes that battles with the left over who gets to run as a Labour MP now are well worth having to avoid having an awkward squad that could make life difficult in Parliament later. Particularly if Labour has to try to run the country as a minority government or with a tiny majority. [...] That discipline ['watching the pennies'] means the party has dropped or watered down some promises that activists loved - the plan for free university tuition in England, delaying big spending proposals for green projects.' So condescending and revealing of elite priorities. She probably thinks she's being so even-handed and balanced, expressing qualified support for these tories over the ones she's usually shilling for, but what comes across is contempt for democracy and the public (aka 'the left'). No Laura, it's not just 'activists' who believed in the Corbyn era policies and are angry about Starmer & the PLP ditching them and spitting in their faces. The 2015 election showed there's mass support for those ideas, and if we're going to pretend we live in a representative democracy they can't just be ignored or demonised as unserious or 'awkward'. But maybe the PTB are just done pretending now and the mask is off: one party rule, totalitarian control by the corporate oligarchy and its mouthpieces in the press. How will the public respond? I |
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