tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2610722814679842832..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Keir and Imposing in HartlepoolPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-8127571546660194712021-03-24T17:34:51.321+00:002021-03-24T17:34:51.321+00:00Labour right-wingers have been telling us for the ...Labour right-wingers have been telling us for the past year that all will be well now that Jeremy Corbyn has been replaced with an ‘electable’ leader. Problem is, all is not well in Labour. <br /><br />The elections now looming look bad for the party, and there isn’t much excuse when the government has been revealed as corrupt, incompetent and heartless at every turn during the Covid-19 pandemic.<br /><br />Opinion polls are putting the Tories well ahead of Labour. It is expected to come third in Scotland, lose seats in Wales, and put in a lacklustre performance in London.<br /><br />The Hartlepool by-election is quite likely to be won by the Tories. Keir Starmer, heroic as ever, is already blaming poor ratings on a ‘vaccine bounce’.<br /><br />In fact, they point to a ‘Starmer slump’ as the nationalists, Greens and Lib Dems all pick up votes from the main opposition.<br /><br />Such is the discontent with the Labour leader – just a year after he took office – that there is widespread talk of a leadership challenge, with names like Yvette Cooper and even Jess Philips being mooted.<br /><br />This clamour will grow if May 6th turns out as badly as many predict.<br /><br />Jeremy Corbyn remains suspended from the party whip. Ordinary members are being witch-hunted across the country and huge numbers have already left the party. <br /><br />In a time when there should be no going back to the old normal, Starmer is incapable of providing any kind of left leadership.<br /><br />Calls for nationalisation, taxing the rich, cutting arms spending, building council houses, are not going to issue from his mouth.<br /><br />Those wanting change are going to have to look outside Labour.<br /><br />John Smithee<br />Wisbech.<br />John Smitheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14402532402994363762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-78601322175632305812021-03-18T14:06:33.984+00:002021-03-18T14:06:33.984+00:00This is an interesting leak and not just for the h...This is an interesting leak and not just for the hints it gives that the resignation of the sitting MP was known about some time in advance and that plans were then made, in secret, to present the local party with no option but to select the chosen candidate. Finding a replacement for what would become the vacant PCC slot, organising cleaners for the campaign office etc etc do not happen overnight.<br /><br />It is assumed that this has been sent to the CLP EC, unless they are all dyed-in-the-wool Blairites this is unlikely for two reason. Firstly if anyone worth their salt on the EC had received this email and realised how local members were being excluded they would have blown the whistle as soon as they received the email. Secondly the emails reads as if the recipients have prior knowledge of the issues being discussed.<br /><br />The email was sent to a select group of people who have been planning this for sometime (Days at least if not 2 or 3 weeks). A member of that select group has decided to leak this email once the procedures that have been set in train cannot easily be undone.<br /><br />The question is who looses by this leak and who gains? Starmer and LOTO lose because it shows their involvement in this stitch up, which will feed the unrest in the party. Who gains? those who want to replace Starmer. For the reason stated above if a left winger had received this email on Sunday it would have been leaked then and certainly not to the Financial Times. Clearly no left winger has been involved in these machinations so the only conclusion is that someone on the right of the Party leaked this in order to damage Starmer.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02269272926588920566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-83523300803294141762021-03-18T12:36:45.581+00:002021-03-18T12:36:45.581+00:00Look how hard the executive is having to work to s...Look how hard the executive is having to work to stamp out the last traces of democracy in Labour. If what they are offering is better than what was offered under Corbyn, why all these confidential, under the counter tactics?Frances Kaynoreply@blogger.com