Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:
'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....
NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!
#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton
They had already abandoned those when I left, over 30 years ago.
@Walrus @ChrisMayLA6 New Labour! Third Way! Red Dogs! It was remarkable how the US Dems and Labour sold out in lockstep. Blair/Clinton used to maintain a thin pretense of leftism over their rapacious neoliberalism, but neither party can be bothered to even *gesture* to its base anymore.
I argue that Labour is now to the right of Boris Johnson's government: climate, economy, immigration, health, and gender scrutiny madness.
Here's hoping the lot of them fucks off to Dubai, like Spain's ex-king.
Juan Carlos Borbó aka "Juan Carlos I" (and hopefully last) is actually in Abu Dhabi.
Must be dull with no elephants or younger brothers to murder.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Chuckles
Walrus 🏴