Is Britain a managed democracy?
If leftwing people are not allowed any part in the body politics, then I really think it is.
Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female member of parliament alleges that she is being banned from standing as an MP.. The original justification for her suspension was not nothing. She sent in email form the first draft of an article to a newspaper that said Jewish people could experience prejudice but not racism. I don't agree with this at all and she has since apologised but the real reason that she is being forced out is that she is on the left of the Labour Party.
This is the most high profile example of an ongoing purge by Keir Starmer and his people to remove anyone to the left of say - Tony Blair - from being a Labour representative. Left candidates have been barred from standing and existing MPs deselected. Jamie Driscoll was removed as Tyneside mayoral candidate and the leader of Compass was suspended from the party. Breaking news is that Faiza Shaheen has been removed as MP candidate for liking a tweet saying Israel committed genocide and Lloyd russell-moyle has been barred from standing due to an eight year old accusation. Other examples are too numerous to mention though the pattern is clear.
When the Romans sacked Carthage, the killed everyone they could find, burned every building and sewed salt into the earth so nothing could ever be grown again. Under cover of media underreporting, Starmer and the labour right has should the same level of professional diligence.
What goes on within the Labour Party does impact the country. The purging of corbynite (and parts of the soft left) goes in tandem with a rightward policy shift that forecloses the possibility of any change from the post thatcher economic consensus. Accept Tory tax spending and borrowing plans. Natalie Elfick is welcome in the Labour Party but not Diane Abbott.
"Things can only get better," people say, knowing echoing the D-Ream song and 97 anthem. But things can't and that is the point of all of this. The Blair government presided over a period of economic growth and though (I can heavily critique their record) they were able to do some good without rocking the boar. Now, we have an incoming government that accepts Tory economic orthodoxy in a time of economic turmoil. The rich will be protected, as will the upper middle class but everyone else will see zero benefits. This will be like the experience of the Cameron and Osborne government. What are you going to do, vote Tory? That is the choice: there isn't one. The tie changed colour but the outcome is the same.
Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female member of parliament alleges that she is being banned from standing as an MP.. The original justification for her suspension was not nothing. She sent in email form the first draft of an article to a newspaper that said Jewish people could experience prejudice but not racism. I don't agree with this at all and she has since apologised but the real reason that she is being forced out is that she is on the left of the Labour Party.
This is the most high profile example of an ongoing purge by Keir Starmer and his people to remove anyone to the left of say - Tony Blair - from being a Labour representative. Left candidates have been barred from standing and existing MPs deselected. Jamie Driscoll was removed as Tyneside mayoral candidate and the leader of Compass was suspended from the party. Breaking news is that Faiza Shaheen has been removed as MP candidate for liking a tweet saying Israel committed genocide and Lloyd russell-moyle has been barred from standing due to an eight year old accusation. Other examples are too numerous to mention though the pattern is clear.
When the Romans sacked Carthage, the killed everyone they could find, burned every building and sewed salt into the earth so nothing could ever be grown again. Under cover of media underreporting, Starmer and the labour right has should the same level of professional diligence.
What goes on within the Labour Party does impact the country. The purging of corbynite (and parts of the soft left) goes in tandem with a rightward policy shift that forecloses the possibility of any change from the post thatcher economic consensus. Accept Tory tax spending and borrowing plans. Natalie Elfick is welcome in the Labour Party but not Diane Abbott.
"Things can only get better," people say, knowing echoing the D-Ream song and 97 anthem. But things can't and that is the point of all of this. The Blair government presided over a period of economic growth and though (I can heavily critique their record) they were able to do some good without rocking the boar. Now, we have an incoming government that accepts Tory economic orthodoxy in a time of economic turmoil. The rich will be protected, as will the upper middle class but everyone else will see zero benefits. This will be like the experience of the Cameron and Osborne government. What are you going to do, vote Tory? That is the choice: there isn't one. The tie changed colour but the outcome is the same.
41-45, M
