Three years ago today, Jeremy Corbyn became Leader of the Labour Party. He is not necessarily right about everything, but he has given Britain a political debate for the first time in my adult lifetime. Economic equality and international peace are now back on the agenda. Indeed, they are the agenda.
Those in Corbyn's own party who do not like that, and who accrued to Labour merely because they were too cool for the Tories at university, are in some cases so deluded that they imagine that anyone would vote for them as themselves.
Say what you like about the Conservative Right, but they labour, so to speak, under no such delusion, having watched UKIP win 1.8. per cent of the vote and no seats, having watched their own party lose its overall majority on a platform of grammar schools and foxhunting, having seen many of their own majorities slashed to the bone by Corbyn, and being fully aware that Corbyn himself would win any of their seats if he had the words "The Conservative Party Candidate" next to his name on the ballot paper.
The Blairite Right of the Labour Party has delusions of grandeur, but it has no guts. It will continue to infest the Parliamentary Labour Party. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. My crowdfunding page is here, or email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com for other options. That address accepts PayPal.
The Blairite Right of the Labour Party has delusions of grandeur, but it has no guts. It will continue to infest the Parliamentary Labour Party. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. My crowdfunding page is here, or email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com for other options. That address accepts PayPal.
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