tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1425468121581842732..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Cancelling Tom WatsonPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-52749523740645319602019-09-23T19:08:56.602+01:002019-09-23T19:08:56.602+01:00"But, that is ridiculous, because when was th..."But, that is ridiculous, because when was the last time you saw McCluskey or any other union negotiator go voluntarily to the employer and say "Can we please have worse pay and conditions than we already have?"!!!"<br /><br />Comrades may be familiar with a union tactic called strike action. It is where Unions say to their members, you won’t be getting paid for a while boys and you might have to live off scraps, but on the other hand the boss won’t be making too much profit. Surely a better analogy of the EU negotiations.<br /><br />This is a tactic with a long history, admittedly with mixed results. <br /><br />Here is the Wikipedia page which goes deeper into this concept of the strikes, just for you Boffy<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action<br /><br />That said, it does make me laugh when someone says no deal has to be on the table because if you don’t threaten this then the EU can hold you over a barrel. These people seem to forget that the same goes for the EU right! So they also have to have the worst possible outcome in their negotiating hand. I know which side I would put money on in that fight!<br /><br />It reminds of those who say Corbyn would not stand a chance if he was in a meeting with Putin, as if these major deals are decided on which leader has the biggest muscles! Seriously I blame the unfree press for this bullshit. Yes the same unfree press that Boffy lauds from time to time. <br /><br />Unity of the oppressed, not the imperialist core.<br />What is a name between dear comradesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-71787207970465154512019-09-22T11:42:23.809+01:002019-09-22T11:42:23.809+01:00McCluskey on Sophie Ridge put forward a thoroughly...McCluskey on Sophie Ridge put forward a thoroughly ridiculous justification of his and Corbyn's line on Brexit negotiations. McCluskey said, that if he as a union negotiator went into negotiations with an employer he would not dream of saying in advance to his members that he would recommend to his members that either they accept or reject whichever deal he managed to negotiate, but would wait to see what came out of those negotiations.<br /><br />But, that is ridiculous, because when was the last time you saw McCluskey or any other union negotiator go voluntarily to the employer and say "Can we please have worse pay and conditions than we already have?"!!!<br /><br />If I was one of McCluskey's members and that is his attitude to TU bargaining I would want to get shut of him straight away, because its not the reason most people join a union, so that their union bureaucrats can voluntarily negotiate worse pay and conditions for them!<br /><br />But, that is precisely what Brexit does. Whatever deal anyone might negotiate, and the EU are far more likely to ensure they gave Corbyn a worse deal than they would offer May or Johnson, it will always be worse than being in the EU!! So, I would hope that any sensible TU negotiator would be able to say in advance, why have we voluntarily put ourselves in a condition of negotiating worse conditions for our members, stop these negotiations straight away. And, I would hope that sensible TU members would themselves say to their negotiators, why are you trying to worsen our conditions, we will stick with what we have and work with our fellow workers across Europe to improve them further thank you ery much.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-70753015923507065662019-09-22T10:41:29.321+01:002019-09-22T10:41:29.321+01:00Lansman, of course, has no chance of being removed...Lansman, of course, has no chance of being removed as head of Momentum, since like Farage, he has created Momentum as his own private business.<br /><br />For the last four years, Corbyn and his leadership have failed to support democratic reform of he LP by the reintroduction of mandatory reselection. It means that Corbyn and the 20 MP's, at most, that fully support him are totally isolated and held to ransom inside the PLP. McCluskey wants Shadow Cabinet Ministers like McDonell, Thornbery etc. (well really pretty much everybody other than Corbyn) who back Remain to resign, which would just about put the final nail in the coffin.<br /><br />Corbyn was backed by Lansman and his Momentum Company in acting as a block on mandatory reselection and the removal of right-wing and Blair-right MP's. Similarly, Corbyn and co stood by whilst Labour members like Marc Wadsworth, Jackie Walker et al were being witchhunted, whilst Lansman and his Momentum company actively cheered it on!<br /><br />Now, Lansman comes along with a totally bureaucratic, Stalinist maneouvre to remove Watson, that could only ever act to give Watson even more of a platform. If they wanted to get shut of Watson, and they should have wanted that long ago, the way to do it was to challenge him in a DL election, in the same way the right challenged Corbyn.<br /><br />My guess is they didn't do that a) because they are incompetent, Stalinoid apparatchiks who appear to be simply towing the Morning Star line, because b) having appeased the right for the last four years, they have not enough support in the PLP to mount a challenge, and c) because they know that Corbyn's pro-Brexit line has now alienated so much of Labour's rank and file, any such election could be seen by them as a proxy for a vote of confidence in Corbyn's reactionary Brexit position, which he would lose.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19235717133307887192019-09-22T09:55:55.431+01:002019-09-22T09:55:55.431+01:00I agree, sharp pain now, recovery forthcoming. An ...I agree, sharp pain now, recovery forthcoming. An imminent election is maybe just an excuse for procrastination. Appeasing the 3rd Way right would be counter-productive, confirming atrocious anti-semitism, weak leadership and worse.<br /><br />It’s not just that these rightist reprobates hate Corbyn, they want his party - especially now it has 500+,000 members and is wildly profitable again. There’s an offspring of newLabour at stake.<br /><br />Self-delusional and incorrigible that’s the Labour right. Not team players. Their way or no-way. They’d rather break the Labour party than allow new management.<br /><br />If these incorrigible psychopaths persist and no bureaucratic solution can work, then the 500+K membership will need to fix it themselves. Selective in-activity. Never campaign for a candidates whose very existence in our party is a threat. Radical, dangerous and desperate measures, that’s what these delusional 3rdwayer rightists engender. in Labour<br /><br />And the very second we adopt this dangerous but understandable strategy Labour stops being a party of government. The rightists will have destroyed the party that they CANNOT understand.<br /><br />Their way is no way. Pain now is better than chronic never-ending irritation and disfunction. qwertboinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-14009968386239409312019-09-22T09:34:33.616+01:002019-09-22T09:34:33.616+01:00"The argument goes that some in Corbynism'..."The argument goes that some in Corbynism's upper echelons fear defeat at the next general election..."<br /><br />You think?!<br /><br />Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19160033745580038452019-09-22T00:09:45.409+01:002019-09-22T00:09:45.409+01:00Jeremy Corbyn is giving Tom Watson and friends a ...Jeremy Corbyn is giving Tom Watson and friends a platform from which they are slowly but surely annoying the Labour party as a whole. This will destroy these types more surely than any kind of purge directed from above by the left.1729torushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09262372962990418135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-13627872213408060222019-09-21T22:11:20.700+01:002019-09-21T22:11:20.700+01:00Westminster voting intention:
CON: 37% (-)
LAB: 2...Westminster voting intention:<br /><br />CON: 37% (-)<br />LAB: 22% (-3)<br />LDEM: 17% (+1)<br />BREX: 12% (-1)<br />GRN: 4% (-)<br /><br />via <br />@OpiniumResearch<br /><br />Chgs. w/ 13 Sep<br /><br />Dippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-65167801062587015642019-09-21T21:33:25.918+01:002019-09-21T21:33:25.918+01:00"... the cynical exploitation of anti-semitis..."... the cynical exploitation of anti-semitism."<br /><br />Is Mark Wadsworth an anti-semite? Come clean!<br /><br />Shai Masothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452453462950704943noreply@blogger.com