Election Reflection

Twitter Thread 02/01/2020

I’m taking my head out of the sand. The Labour Party in not fit for purpose. It cannot be an effective opposition while it’s ideologically riven by irreconcilable worldviews.

We on the left watched in fascinated horror, as RW Party members continually undermined Corbyn.

Just to enumerate a few examples: the leadership challenge, the amplification of antisemitism, the disgraceful treatment of left-wingers expelled from the party, the endless media appearances attacking the party leadership, and now, the insistence that people like me be purged.

And now the gleeful assertion that the left is responsible for the GE defeat, and the insistence that to become, ‘electable’ we return to the policies and mindset that led to a decline in vote share before the 2017 election, which Corbyn, to the shock of the right, halted.

I’m not going to submit to this. I’m not going to rally round Andrew Adonis, I’ll not be voting or supporting anyone who wants to take the party back to some mythical centre where we are acceptable to Murdoch, and palatable to the comfortably well-off:who will vote LDem anyway

The defining issue of our age is the impending climate catastrophe. Does anyone believe that the neoliberal free-market free-for-all that brought us to the brink of the sixth mass extinction, is capable of mitigating the effects? Conservatism and Liberalism have no solutions.

When society begins to break down, and WAKE UP PEOPLE, it WILL, who do you want deciding your grandchildren’s future? A fake-Labour ‘Trust us, we’re not really socialist, honestly... “ faction, or true socialists committed to a just society that works for all?

This coming leadership election will be one of the most important votes I have ever cast. Whichever, ‘side’ wins, be sure of one thing:,there will be no truce. There will be open warfare, and you know what, I WELCOME it. I’m tired of putting up with being vilified.

@UKLabour simply cannot go on with influential RW members constantly subverting what was a popular revolution in 2015. This was never about a man, it was a massive call for radical change.

We must vote in a socialist as our party leader. And bugger the consequences.

And finally: Modetn Monetary Theorist Bill Mitchell explaining how Labour lost the North and Midlands, and why we deserved to:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/macro-n-cheese/id1453085489?i=1000459589014