tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post708700903330092892..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: After the "Resignation"Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-40737034942075714062022-07-09T22:30:57.676+01:002022-07-09T22:30:57.676+01:00'Old Trot': you may be old, but you're...'Old Trot': you may be old, but you're no Trot:<br /><br />"the entirely bogus mirage of a very near future Labour government will , yet again, give the various Trades Union bureaucracies the opportunity to sell out the rising tide of industrial action - "so as not to give the MSM the opportunity to discredit the Labour Party". Because the bureaucracy will claim that a Labour government, any type of Labour government, will automatically be better than a Tory one."<br /><br />1/ There is logical no reason why campaigning for a Labour government need mean selling out industrial action. Unless you're a craven reformist or a crazy syndicalist. Learn to walk and fart both at the same time!<br /><br />2/ Do seriously doubt that a Labour government - "any type of Labour government" - will "automatically be better than a Tory one"? Seriously? Time to re-read Lenin, Old Syndicalist.Jim Denhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642992463679646250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-80890425818252461542022-07-08T21:32:04.030+01:002022-07-08T21:32:04.030+01:00I'm completely unconvinced a General Election ...I'm completely unconvinced a General Election is in the offing. Why would a Tory Party with a circa 80 seat majority fall into that trap ? They will just select another ghastly , sociopathic , Leader to be PM. And on the neoliberal shitshow will trundle - with the Starmer-led NuLabour2 Party continuing working feverishly to 'cleanse' their ranks of anyone vaguely of the Left - including those cowardly bozos from the 'Socialist' Campaign Group of MPs - who pathetically supposed that by adopting a supine compliant profile they would be spared - to continue their very well remunerated careers as cosmetic 'Left' adornments to this now firmly merely Tory-lite neoliberal NATO-loving, privatisation allowing, party of the Thatcherite/Blairite consensus. <br /><br />The huge danger for the working class now is that the entirely bogus mirage of a very near future Labour government will , yet again, give the various Trades Union bureaucracies the opportunity to sell out the rising tide of industrial action - "so as not to give the MSM the opportunity to discredit the Labour Party". Because the bureaucracy will claim that a Labour government, any type of Labour government, will automatically be better than a Tory one. Wake up guys, a fully restored Blairite neoliberal Labour Party - totally craven before the power of Capital, will be pretty much identical to a Tory government in the key policy areas - if missing out the constant partying and the most blatant corrupt robbing of the public purse that we saw in the PPE contracts for instance. And a Labour Government would in any case have to be in coalition with the lesser Tories of the Lib Dems - so don't expect any slowdown in the privatisation of our NHS, or any let-up in the inflation-enabled austerity on steroids for most of us that lies ahead even if a Lab/Lib Dem government somehow was elected out of the current crisis. Not that I think that will happen anyway- but the union bureaucrats will use that illusion to justify damping down currently fast-rising strike levels across the range of public and private industry and services. . Old Trotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-90402584183810292082022-07-08T13:30:24.025+01:002022-07-08T13:30:24.025+01:00You've gotta hand it to the old Etonian, he mu...You've gotta hand it to the old Etonian, he must have picked up something from his lessons on Rhetoric back in his school days. He calls upon all the 'canons of rhetoric'. In particular his use of Ad populum, an appeal to the authority of the crowd (15 million voters can't be wrong but his parliamentary colleagues 'the herd' certainly can. Notice Johnson never uses the words: resign or resignation. The Sophists would have been proud. Nigel Butterworthnoreply@blogger.com