I've voted Labour for over 50 years. I used to be a card carrying activist & volunteer election agent, (no perks or freebies), in one of the most rock solid Tory areas in the UK, at the height of the Thatcher era. On Thursday I voted Green, because they are recognisably left of centre.
What this Government are doing with PIP, I find absolutely disgusting. Isn't it time the country had a Labour Government, i.e. a "proper" Labour Government? We've had over 45 years of a variety of right-wing administrations. Whole generations have grown up to reach voting age without any knowledge or experience of the fact that there is an alternative.
My solution for a change of direction can be easily summed up. Stop punching down. Resign Rachel Reeves. Sir Keir Starmer, change direction, start listening, or move over, to allow someone who will, to take over before the next general election.
Agreed. I believe there is a majority behind taxing the very rich to improve public services and even reduce tax on the average paid and lower. I can't understand why the Labour leadership can not see that this makes sense. I also don't understand why there aren't more Labour MPs getting behind it. I am only remaining in the party to push these kinds of policies.
I agree with your appraisal of where we are now. All night Thursday, Friday and they'll continue...., Labour MPs have been repeating the word "change" like clockwork parrots! Then listing breakfast clubs and NHS waiting lists. Of course these policies have genuine value, but in the package of economic policies Labour is pursuing, any value they have is lost against the huge austerity measures they have implemented that amount to "No Change" Labour.
The left in Britain has abandoned class struggle and class analysis, so no hope for a change agenda from the left, which reminds me too much of the misogynist "male" left of the 70s which focussed their rage on women's liberationists.
What are we to do?
Ditch liberal identity politics, male chauvinism and get real!
I've voted Labour for over 50 years. I used to be a card carrying activist & volunteer election agent, (no perks or freebies), in one of the most rock solid Tory areas in the UK, at the height of the Thatcher era. On Thursday I voted Green, because they are recognisably left of centre.
What this Government are doing with PIP, I find absolutely disgusting. Isn't it time the country had a Labour Government, i.e. a "proper" Labour Government? We've had over 45 years of a variety of right-wing administrations. Whole generations have grown up to reach voting age without any knowledge or experience of the fact that there is an alternative.
My solution for a change of direction can be easily summed up. Stop punching down. Resign Rachel Reeves. Sir Keir Starmer, change direction, start listening, or move over, to allow someone who will, to take over before the next general election.
Agreed. I believe there is a majority behind taxing the very rich to improve public services and even reduce tax on the average paid and lower. I can't understand why the Labour leadership can not see that this makes sense. I also don't understand why there aren't more Labour MPs getting behind it. I am only remaining in the party to push these kinds of policies.
I agree with your appraisal of where we are now. All night Thursday, Friday and they'll continue...., Labour MPs have been repeating the word "change" like clockwork parrots! Then listing breakfast clubs and NHS waiting lists. Of course these policies have genuine value, but in the package of economic policies Labour is pursuing, any value they have is lost against the huge austerity measures they have implemented that amount to "No Change" Labour.
The left in Britain has abandoned class struggle and class analysis, so no hope for a change agenda from the left, which reminds me too much of the misogynist "male" left of the 70s which focussed their rage on women's liberationists.
What are we to do?
Ditch liberal identity politics, male chauvinism and get real!
No matter what we do, no left wing party will ever be allowed to govern in the UK. This is the lesson of 2019.