A Vision of a Fairer Britain

Jeremy Corbyn on barnstorming form, and not necessarily on home turf.

That employment rights should begin with employment, and apply regardless of the number of hours worked, was the signature policy of John Smith.

Blair and Brown were in for 13 years and did not even manage, or attempt, to do that.

We are now back to the Labour Party of 11th May 1994, the day before Smith died, or of 10th July 1994, the day before Blair became Leader.

That party had a huge poll lead, had had it since 16th September 1992 (if you have to, then look up that date), and was universally expected to sweep all before it at the General Election that people then thought would be in the spring of 1996.

The line is now drawn: opposition to this policy, as well as to the policy on dividends and the real Living Wage, and as well as to the policy on pay differentials, is now the mark of the entryist ultra-Right that simply does not belong in the Labour Party at all.

After all, there is another party with which such people agree on absolutely everything, and the Leader of that party is, for now, the Prime Minister.