tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post7774671919464547986..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Right Wing Defence of StarmerismPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20257614304345293112021-02-17T16:31:23.635+00:002021-02-17T16:31:23.635+00:00I feel I should point out that a grasshoppers stre...I feel I should point out that a grasshoppers strength is in its hind limbs - not its arms.Shaolin Monknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26755580073026235212021-02-17T13:28:14.245+00:002021-02-17T13:28:14.245+00:00Your (and Jake Richards') critique of Starmer ...Your (and Jake Richards') critique of Starmer makes some good points but is fatally undermined by the fact that you agree with his craven capitultion over Brexit and (I'm guessing), more generally, with his de facto embrace of Blue Labour. Jim Denhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642992463679646250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-43835537707388247062021-02-17T12:26:30.194+00:002021-02-17T12:26:30.194+00:00Exactly.
Outragous...And typical.
What it demonstr...Exactly.<br />Outragous...And typical.<br />What it demonstrates, amongst other things, is the contempt the author has for the intelligence of his target audience. Clearly they are supposed to interpret the cause of the parties current finacial problems as being Corbyn related.<br />The author is fully aware the exact opposite is the reality.<br />Disgusting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04699609160658063930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-67751967063007701302021-02-17T09:24:38.682+00:002021-02-17T09:24:38.682+00:00Thanks Phil but even your summary of Jake Richards...Thanks Phil but even your summary of Jake Richards' asinine piece does nothing to enliven me from my PTSD (post traumatic Starmer disorder). I think I prefer listening to Alexi Sayle's delightfully acidic and hilarious podcasts. https://audioboom.com/posts/7736438-keir-starmer-establishment-tool. He gives Starmer no quarter, likeing him to a Thunderbirds puppet, rather than Mr Darcy. <br /><br />I'm currently reading 'Searching for Socialim: the Project of the Labour Left from Benn to Corbyn' by the recently deceased Leo Panitch. Well written and worth a butchers. Dialectician1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-22173284178584536692021-02-17T01:40:30.741+00:002021-02-17T01:40:30.741+00:00I found this to be an interesting, and interesting...I found this to be an interesting, and interestingly vague, comment within Jake’s brave and revelatory polemic. <br /><br />“True, day-to-day communication and the broad political operation, hampered by the pandemic and lack of resources (the party is said to be on the verge of bankruptcy after the Corbyn years), requires improvement.”<br /><br />Interesting to notice that the decline of membership from historic and unparalleled highs when Corbyn was leader, due to lack on enthusiasm in the current leadership and their lack of positions, distaste at the purges, etc, is completely glossed over; and with that an obvious reduction in party funding. Also conspicuously absent from this most crucial “context”, the subsequent fortune wasted and handed out in undue settlements, poor decision-making nonsensical legal pursuits, and a revolving door of external advisors, consultants and middle managers, *by* people who worked to hamper Corbyn from within - as revealed extensively in those Labour Leak - as well as Starmer’s own leadership since. <br /><br />One would assume that if the mourning of party finances was in good faith, these pertinent, relevant facts would have to be assessed and accounted when raising it. Male Goring Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01901938814314068902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20115199803165288672021-02-16T23:20:12.944+00:002021-02-16T23:20:12.944+00:00Excellent as always. Thanks.
What say you about ...Excellent as always. Thanks. <br /><br />What say you about the idea that the right are massively overstating the extent of their victory as it stands? <br /><br />Doesn't seem like they have a large base in the party, so grinding the numbers down favours them in any future leadership election. Post 2024, anyway. Nathan Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936912390290712546noreply@blogger.com