All right, then, nothing further about a political activist in his twenties who is the age that I was when I was first a Parish Councillor and a school governor, who leaps onto my Facebook (where he and I have never had any direct connection) to post foul-mouthed comments within seconds of my having posted, and who appears to keep a close eye on this site, even in the dead of night. Apparently, he is a "child". It must be a state of mind. Think of him as Baby Doc.
On the 43-year-old Papa Doc, meanwhile, the Labour report is quite clear that he used the Angry Black Woman trope against Diane Abbott. Trope. I enjoyed typing that word. How the tables are turned. His very long run of being able to dish it out but not take it, not something of which anyone has ever accused me, is finally coming to an end. He used the Angry Black Woman trope against Diane Abbott. While he was the London Regional Director of the Labour Party. Yes, really.
I have waited nearly half my life for this, more than a quarter of any life that I am likely to have, and no one is going to deny me this pleasure on the cusp of my old age. If you are probably about two thirds of the way through, then you are on the cusp of old age. At 42, that is where I am. Thank you to the right-wing Labour machine in general, and thank you to the racist NF in particular.
Ah, the right-wing Labour machine. 6th May 2021 will be Super Thursday, with elections on every inch of Great Britain, and with next year's and what would have been this year's held on the same day. How are they going to run the council elections in those urban areas which employ the thoroughly undemocratic practice of only ever electing one third of the council at a time, so that it is impossible to kick them all out at once?
Boris Johnson now has it within his power to destroy the Labour Party. If the law were to be changed so that all local elections were to be held every four years, beginning on Super Thursday, with each of us voting for one candidate, and with the requisite number elected at the end. Goodbye to the municipal Labour Right, hitherto unique in having an enormous fiscal base due to its permanent or semi-permanent control of almost all of the most populous local authorities in England and Wales, with their Council Tax, their business rates, their pension funds looking to invest, their endless opportunities for sweeteners and backhanders, and so on.
Labour is also going to lose control of what will then be the Welsh Parliament. That is going to be hung, but the Conservatives are going to be the largest party, and everyone else in Wales will seize the opportunity to banish the common enemy. Not even in London is Labour going to do as well as it expects. The Labour report, and the revelations about Trevor Chinn, are enough to bring down much of the Black Wall, which had already been looking shaky in view of Keir Starmer's past. By the way, installing as Leader the man who had just lost Labour a General Election is a recurring theme. As in 1992, so in 2020.
And then why would anyone even join the Labour Party? Left-wing people are leaving it, not joining it. But why would anyone else still bother, either? For a councillor's allowance? For a job with the council? For a better council house? For any council house? None of those things is any longer going to be in the gift of the Labour Party. Between organisational collapse in 2021 and a General Election in 2024, Labour could fall to fewer than 100 Commons seats, with fewer votes than all other non-Conservatives combined.
The Left's answer to "You're unelectable" will be mine to the racist NF in 2003, "Well, so are you." Except that in 2003, no one could prove that I was unelectable. Only that the racist NF was. Meanwhile, serious politics continues elsewhere. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
Boris Johnson now has it within his power to destroy the Labour Party. If the law were to be changed so that all local elections were to be held every four years, beginning on Super Thursday, with each of us voting for one candidate, and with the requisite number elected at the end. Goodbye to the municipal Labour Right, hitherto unique in having an enormous fiscal base due to its permanent or semi-permanent control of almost all of the most populous local authorities in England and Wales, with their Council Tax, their business rates, their pension funds looking to invest, their endless opportunities for sweeteners and backhanders, and so on.
Labour is also going to lose control of what will then be the Welsh Parliament. That is going to be hung, but the Conservatives are going to be the largest party, and everyone else in Wales will seize the opportunity to banish the common enemy. Not even in London is Labour going to do as well as it expects. The Labour report, and the revelations about Trevor Chinn, are enough to bring down much of the Black Wall, which had already been looking shaky in view of Keir Starmer's past. By the way, installing as Leader the man who had just lost Labour a General Election is a recurring theme. As in 1992, so in 2020.
And then why would anyone even join the Labour Party? Left-wing people are leaving it, not joining it. But why would anyone else still bother, either? For a councillor's allowance? For a job with the council? For a better council house? For any council house? None of those things is any longer going to be in the gift of the Labour Party. Between organisational collapse in 2021 and a General Election in 2024, Labour could fall to fewer than 100 Commons seats, with fewer votes than all other non-Conservatives combined.
The Left's answer to "You're unelectable" will be mine to the racist NF in 2003, "Well, so are you." Except that in 2003, no one could prove that I was unelectable. Only that the racist NF was. Meanwhile, serious politics continues elsewhere. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
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