Didn’t think I’d find 80%
from the Guardian’s ‘Letters and Emails’ supporting trade unions over the
parliamentary Labour Party. But, that is the case in today’s (Saturday 6th
July) paper. And the other 20% (one letter) doesn’t write in support of labour.
The main themes of the
other four letters focus on how the Right took over the party, and has used
means fair and foul to ensure the Left is kept outside the tent; on “…Labour’s long,
sad, slow metamorphosis from a people’s party to a bland, centre-right conservative
group more concerned with popularity in middle-class marginal constituencies
than in having any genuine beliefs of their own.”; how rather than fearing
‘leftwing’ issues “… be it
renationalising the railways, abolishing tuition fees, taxing the rich or
nuclear disarmament (with the sole exception of immigration)…” they actually
chime with public opinion; and, Unite that is right to stand up to fight
against the ruinous neo-liberal policies so popular with Thatcher, then
continued through Labour’s 13 years in office.
Maybe the tide is turning, but the only people who are
resisting it are the King Canute-like members of the parliamentary Labour
Party, the Blairites and co.
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