Jeremy Corbyn ought to talk about austerity, wars, Trident, and civil liberties, in order to push Andy Burnham in the right directions.
He ought also to talk about his more specialised and specialist issues, which his candidacy would enable him to provide with a platform: Chagos, Sri Lanka (including the neocon wing of the Conservative Party's scandalous links to the regime there), and caste-based discrimination, not least including the Government's horrific promise to relegalise such discrimination in this country.
That promise won the Conservatives at least one seat, just as the Government's reality-denying opposition to the recognition of Palestine won that party at least three seats. Israel is the only foreign state that could crow without recrimination at having so influenced the composition of the House of Commons.
Whoever becomes the Labour Leader needs to make the case for a full spectrum, social democratic patriotism. Deep in the cuts-afflicted, Forces-providing shires, where they are most unlikely to think that the RSS or Likud ought to be able to appoint British MPs, there will be millions of previously unimaginable votes to be had.
""reality-denying opposition to the recognition of Palestine"
ReplyDeleteWhat "reality"? What language is "Palestinian" exactly? How did the term mysteriously come to refer only to Arabs in the region?
Prior to 1967, the term "Palestinians" referred to Jewish residents of the area-it mysteriously became a term for Arabs after Israel was founded.
How convenient.
Point proved.
DeleteThe origins of the modern term Palestinian show that it's a propaganda fiction largely aimed at delegitimising Israel.
ReplyDeletePoint proved.
DeleteTime was when the Right prided itself on its strictly realistic approach. Not anymore. War for "values", and this.