Monday 11 July 2016

Left In

To the necessarily crossparty body that will negotiate a settlement with the European Union, Theresa May should now appoint immediately the person and nominees of the Leader of the Labour Party at this moment.

As she should to a similar body to give effect to her proposals for worker representation, for action against pay disparities, for binding votes of shareholders, and for other such measures that would likewise be supported in principle by Jeremy Corbyn but opposed by Angela Eagle.

We are days, perhaps hours, away from a Conservative Prime Minister who is economically to the left of Tony Blair. The idea of a Labour Leader to her right is execrable.

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  1. She's socially and culturally to the Left of Blair, too. So left-wing that she's embarrassed to admit she owes her career to her attendance at a grammar school, voted for the horrible Equality Act and backed all-women shortlists.

    She's even abandoned the pledge her party was elected with a mandate to deliver; abolishing the Human Rights Act that gives foreign courts supremacy over ours.

    Now Labour and the Tories can just merge into one, and the Tory Right will realise how true everything Peter Hitchens says about their party really is.

    As the Sunday Times noted today, 20 Tory MPs were already planning to join with many Labour MPs to form a new party. Labour MPs can now simply cross the floor instead.

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    1. There is no Tory Right in that sense. Andrea Leadsom is not of that kind of view, either, and they couldn't even get her onto the ballot. As a political force, what you describe simply does not exist.

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  2. Yes of course it does.

    Ledsom herself opposes gay marriage, for example, as did the majority of Tory MPs who voted on it (some of whom weren't even that rightwing). And there are many supporters of EU withdrawal and of the restoration of grammar schools among the Tory backbenches (including Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee).

    As for human rights, the Tories pledged to abolish that Act in their manifesto. So tat view is very mainstream in the party.

    Ledsom was driven out by a minority of MPs who-due to the slim Parliamentary majority-are able to call the shots. She had far more support among her MPs than Jeremy Corbyn does among his, though that's not saying much.

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    1. It's over. With UKIP also in meltdown today, the whole notion of a party even as right-wing as David Cameron or Tony Blair is now over. Whereas only keeping Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot could stop him from walking another Leadership Election.

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  3. the whole notion of a party even as right-wing as David Cameron or Tony Blair is now over.

    Not according to the 52% of British voters who have just voted for a campaign entirely led by the Tory Right and against both leftwing parties.

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    1. "Just"? It feels like 20 years ago. Before we know where we are, it will be. Even Rod Liddle now openly says that Article 50 is never coming.

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