I have never been a member of the Workers Party of Britain, and while I used to go to the Blue Labour conferences at Nottingham, I was never a speaker, nor did I contribute to the Blue Labour collection of essays; those who were or did seem largely to have ended up in the SDP. So, in either case, not so much "in but not of", as "of but not in".
Since Blue Labour still exists in some form that I cannot quite deduce, both it and the Workers Party have now called for a national inquiry into the rape gangs, with the Workers Party councillors in Rochdale, Farooq Ahmed and Minaam Ellahi, tabling a motion to that effect. What say the Conservatives, four times more numerous and all white?
And if that inquiry were at least to include the key academic figures in Blue Labour and in the Workers Party, which certainly has them, then that might be an inquiry worth holding. Likewise if it had Dr Lisa McKenzie on it. How much chance of any of that is there? I only ask.
Sad but true, we'd never get our people onto this inquiry.
ReplyDeleteIt does strike me as highly unlikely, yes.
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