The heartlands clearly want rid of New Labour, but they just as clearly don't want Trots. They never have done, and why would they? They have always rejected Stalinist, Trotskyist and Scargillite parties, as well they might.
Rather, they want this, this and this.
Yet another encounter today with a Labour stalwart in these parts asking why I don't go back, and specifically saying that the sort of movement set out in the three above links is exactly what the Labour Party is. Well, yes, if the Labour Party were run by, or even composed to any great extent of, people like my interlocutor and several other old comrades round here, then that would indeed be the case, and parting company with it would never have occurred to me. But it simply isn't, and what few people like that there still are in it should get out of it. Why don't they? What is stopping them?
Our intended breakthrough is the European Election in June of next year, giving us a good year's worth of campaigning and fund-raising, during which we will be presenting ourselves in such a way that certain interests could not possibly fail to give us at least a very favourable ride, with certain related specialist media guaranteed to get out, within the context of an extremely low turnout generally, more than enough votes, not merely to save our deposits (there is no serious possibility of losing them), but to return at least one MEP per region, and quite possibly two in two or three of them.
When you see exactly how we are going to sell ourselves, then you will agree that we really cannot fail, putting us in a very good position to be the first past the post in several Westminster constituencies in 2010, again on a very low turnout favouring tactics such as ours.
Watch this space.
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